Senior AI Software Engineer - Production-Grade AI, London

T. Rowe Price; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

T. Rowe Price Labs’ AI Engineering team in London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and deliver production-grade AI systems and advance how AI products are developed, hardened, and scaled.

This role is based in our London office, where you will collaborate with engineers, product owners, and business stakeholders across the UK and global teams to incubate new AI products, mature them for production, and enable broader adoption through a Build-Operate-Transfer model.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive software engineering experience delivering complex applications.
• Experience with cloud-native solutions on AWS or equivalent, containers, and modern delivery practices.
• Experience building AI-enabled systems and knowledge of AI engineering patterns.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with ability to explain complex AI concepts.
• Ability to mentor less-experienced engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy, and evolve production-grade AI agents and intelligent systems within modern cloud-native architectures.
• Own significant components of development across the software lifecycle, working independently to solve complex engineering problems and deliver high-quality technical solutions.
• Apply deep technical expertise to AI engineering problems and serve as a resource for colleagues, contributing to architecture, design, and implementation decisions.
• Support the Build-Operate-Transfer model by incubating new AI products, hardening them for production, and working with business-aligned technology teams to transition proven solutions for long-term ownership and scale.
• Work closely with engineers, product owners, and business stakeholders to translate complex or ambiguous problems into scalable AI solutions that deliver measurable business value.
• Contribute to reusable AI capabilities and shared platform components across areas such as agent orchestration, tool use, retrieval-based systems, evaluation frameworks, observability, and guardrails.
• Champion strong engineering practices through software design, code and design reviews, automated testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
• Build AI systems with measurable quality, production readiness, operational observability, and appropriate safety controls.
• Be accountable for technical debt within the software and components you own, and actively contribute to improvements in team engineering practices and standards.
• Apply sound engineering judgment when making tactical and strategic trade-offs across functionality, scalability, maintainability, risk, and delivery.
• Mentor and support less-experienced engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, design discussions, and day-to-day collaboration.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI in ways that accelerate workflows, improve decision-making, and create scalable business impact across the firm.

Skills

Java

Python

JavaScript

AWS

Cloud-native

AI-enabled systems

System design

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in CS

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

REST APIs

Job description

T. Rowe Price Labs’ AI Engineering team in London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and deliver production-grade AI systems and advance how AI products are developed, hardened, and scaled.

This role is based in our London office, where you will collaborate with engineers, product owners, and business stakeholders across the UK and global teams to incubate new AI products, mature them for production, and enable broader adoption through a Build-Operate-Transfer model.