AI Engineer - Build Production AI for Connected Workflows

Story Terrace Inc.; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Story Terrace Inc. is expanding its AI-enabled software platform and seeks an AI Engineer to own the engineering that turns ideas into dependable features.

You will work across application code, integrations, AI assistants and automated workflows, collaborating with product and engineering to improve AI usage and outcomes. You will deliver practical software delivery and production AI within Engage, shaping architecture, reusable capabilities and the actual code after release, guided by research

Qualifications

• Strong experience delivering and maintaining production software, with ownership beyond the initial release.
• Evidence of an AI feature or workflow you personally built, including the choices you made and what changed after real users tried it.
• Confidence writing and reviewing production code, including Python for AI work, and working with APIs, data stores and cloud services.
• Regular, thoughtful use of AI development tools. You can explain how you check their work and recognise when they are wrong.
• Practical understanding of testing, debugging, access control and the reliability challenges of systems that depend on model outputs.
• Good judgement about scope and trade-offs, and the ability to explain technical decisions clearly to product and engineering colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Deliver product features across APIs, services, data and user-facing workflows, using sound software engineering alongside AI.
• Build AI features that use the right context, tools and permissions to solve a clear user problem. Choose a simpler software approach when that is the better fit.
• Take work from discovery and a working prototype through testing, deployment, monitoring and improvement.
• Use coding agents and other AI tools throughout development, with clear tasks, useful context, code review and independent verification.
• Build reusable approaches to prompts, retrieval, tool use and structured outputs where they improve the product.
• Share what works with the team and explain where AI-generated code or model behaviour needs closer scrutiny.
• Create tests and evaluation examples that expose failures, including misleading answers, incorrect tool calls and permission errors.
• Monitor quality, latency and cost as usage grows. Diagnose failures and put appropriate limits, retries, fallbacks and human review in place.
• Protect customer data and tenant boundaries, and make important behaviour traceable and supportable.

Skills

Python for AI work

APIs

Cloud services

AI tooling

Job description

Story Terrace Inc. is expanding its AI-enabled software platform and seeks an AI Engineer to own the engineering that turns ideas into dependable features.

You will work across application code, integrations, AI assistants and automated workflows, collaborating with product and engineering to improve AI usage and outcomes. You will deliver practical software delivery and production AI within Engage, shaping architecture, reusable capabilities and the actual code after release, guided by research