AI Software Engineer (KTP) for SMARTPBL Platform

Birmingham City University; Birmingham; 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 a high-calibre graduate for an AI Software Engineer (KTP Associate) to deliver a 24-month Knowledge Transfer Partnership with its Department of Computer Science and PBL Care Limited. Based mainly at PBL Care in Birmingham, you will develop an AI-enabled platform to transform social-care planning, coordination, and monitoring.

The role offers a personal development budget of £4,000 and access to the KTP training programme, with supervision from BCU and PBL

Qualifications

• Strong software-development skills and experience building data-driven systems.
• Applied machine-learning and data-analytics capability, including predictive modelling and/or optimisation.
• Knowledge or experience of NLP/LLMs and unstructured-text processing.
• Experience with databases, APIs and systems integration.
• Experience of cloud-hosted platforms or application architectures.
• Understanding of cybersecurity, access control, secure communications and data-protection principles.
• Web and/or mobile application development experience.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder-engagement, problem-solving and project-delivery skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage change, take ownership of deliverables and operate effectively in a regulated environment.

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.
• Plan and conduct unit, integration, security and user-acceptance testing and support production deployment.
• Train and mentor PBL staff, produce technical/user/helpdesk documentation, and embed sustainable internal capability.
• Support project reporting, impact evaluation, publications, dissemination and commercial exploitation planning.

Skills

Software development

ML & Data analytics

NLP/LLMs

APIs & Integration

Cloud platforms

Security & GDPR

Web/Mobile development

Communication

Autonomy

Education

BSc or higher in CS/AI/DS/SE

Master's degree advantageous

Tools

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

Job description

Birmingham City University is seeking a high-calibre graduate for an AI Software Engineer (KTP Associate) to deliver a 24-month Knowledge Transfer Partnership with its Department of Computer Science and PBL Care Limited. Based mainly at PBL Care in Birmingham, you will develop an AI-enabled platform to transform social-care planning, coordination, and monitoring.

The role offers a personal development budget of £4,000 and access to the KTP training programme, with supervision from BCU and PBL