AI Software Engineer, KTP Associate (2-year)

Birmingham City University; Highgate; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personal development budget (£4,000)

Job summary

Birmingham City University is seeking an AI Software Engineer (KTP Associate) to deliver a 24‑month Knowledge Transfer Partnership with its Department of Computer Science and PBL Care Limited. The role is based primarily at PBL Care in Birmingham and involves building an AI-enabled platform to improve workforce planning, care continuity, and regulatory compliance.

You will work with leading academics and industry partners to develop STAR components: geospatial carer-matching, attrition-risk

Qualifications

• 2:1 degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Software Engineering or closely related discipline.
• Relevant Master's degree is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements elicitation, feasibility analysis and technical planning for SMARTPBL.
• Design the secure, modular platform architecture, data layer, APIs, dashboards and user interfaces.
• Develop the geospatial intelligent matching and dynamic replanning capability.
• Develop ML models for workforce retention and attrition-risk prediction.
• Develop and validate a domain-adapted NLP/LLM pipeline for care notes and risk/quality intelligence.
• Implement cybersecurity, access control, secure communications and GDPR-aligned data-protection measures.
• Build and integrate the web and mobile solution with PBL's existing systems and cloud/data services.

Skills

Software development

Data-driven systems

Machine learning

NLP/LLMs

APIs & systems integration

Cloud platforms

Cybersecurity awareness

Web/mobile development

Independent working

Education

2:1 degree in Computer Science or related

Master's degree advantageous

Tools

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

Databases

APIs

GIS/routing/scheduling

Job description

Birmingham City University is seeking an AI Software Engineer (KTP Associate) to deliver a 24‑month Knowledge Transfer Partnership with its Department of Computer Science and PBL Care Limited. The role is based primarily at PBL Care in Birmingham and involves building an AI-enabled platform to improve workforce planning, care continuity, and regulatory compliance.

You will work with leading academics and industry partners to develop STAR components: geospatial carer-matching, attrition-risk