Senior AI Engineer

TieTalent; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + annual bonus

Flexible hybrid working

Career development opportunities

25 days holiday

Enhanced Maternity/Paternity pay

1 day paid charity day

Company events and incentives

Private Medical Insurance

Free breakfast and beverages

Job summary

A leading technology company based in Manchester is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join their innovative team. You will play a crucial role in integrating AI into travel solutions, focusing on scalable API development and intelligent features. Ideal candidates should have strong experience in .NET Core and LLM APIs, with a collaborative approach to software engineering. This position offers competitive salary, hybrid work flexibility, and numerous employee benefits.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in .NET Core/C# and modern web frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with LLM APIs like OpenAI or Claude.
• Deep familiarity with API design and microservices.
• Experience with cloud-first development and databases.

Responsibilities

• Engineer AI-first systems and bring LLMs into the platform.
• Own key backend services and build scalable APIs.
• Build RAG-powered workflows to generate insights.
• Collaborate across disciplines to embed intelligent features.

Skills

Proven experience in .NET Core/C#

Hands-on experience with LLM APIs

Deep familiarity with API design

Experience building systems with MongoDB and SQL

Solid engineering practices: TDD and CI/CD

Tools

Angular/TypeScript

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Overview

Join to apply for the Senior AI Engineer role at TieTalent.

Recode the Future of Travel. Power Human Potential with AI. Travel Counsellors is redefining travel with AI-driven experiences built around deep human connection. We’ve spent 30+ years empowering over 2,200 independent travel entrepreneurs across the globe. With an award-winning culture and growing digital momentum, we’re building the next-generation AI capabilities that will revolutionise our personal travel platform, Phenix. This is your chance to be at the centre of something extraordinary—shaping how AI and software engineering converge to create magical, meaningful travel experiences.

About The Role — Your Mission

Join our high-impact squad of engineers and AI innovators as a Senior AI Engineer to architect, build, and evolve TC Co-Pilot — our intelligent assistant embedded deep within our tech ecosystem. This is a hands-on engineering role where your code directly amplifies the power of humans, helping our Travel Counsellors work smarter, faster, and more creatively than ever before.

You’ll build AI into the heart of our customer journeys using large language models (LLMs), recommendation systems, voice interfaces, and generative tools — all grounded in scalable, production-ready code.

What You7;ll Be Doing

• Engineer AI-first systems: Bring LLMs, recommendation engines, and natural language interfaces into our platform, from prototype to production.
• Own key backend services: Use .NET Core/C# to build scalable APIs and services that connect human intent with machine intelligence.
• Build RAG-powered workflows: Leverage retrieval-augmented generation, context-aware orchestration (MCP), and internal datasets to generate real-time, contextual insights.
• Collaborate across disciplines: Work with product designers, data scientists, and AI strategy leads to embed intelligent features into everyday user flows.
• Stay ahead of the curve: Apply emerging AI trends, focusing on what works and shaping the future of our AI stack.

Benefits

• Competitive salary + annual bonus
• Flexible hybrid working
• Career development opportunities
• 25 days holiday (increasing to 28 after 5 years)
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity pay
• 1 day paid charity day
• Company events and incentives
• 3x salary death in service benefit
• Pension scheme
• Private Medical Insurance or Healthcare Cash Plan
• Free breakfast and beverages

Requirements

• Proven experience in .NET Core/C# and modern web frameworks like Angular/TypeScript
• Hands-on experience with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Claude, Bedrock), LangChain, or RAG-based architectures
• Deep familiarity with API design, microservices, and cloud-first development (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience building systems with MongoDB, SQL, or vector databases like Pinecone or MongoDB Atlas Vector Search
• Solid engineering practices: TDD, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tooling, and secure deployment at scale

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries
• Technology, Information and Internet

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