Senior AI Software Engineer

Aimlroles; Maine; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Aurora is seeking a Software Engineer to lead an AI-focused team in developing systems where LLMs autonomously plan and call tools to navigate complex data. You’ll drive production-grade solutions that inform researchers, investors, and policymakers worldwide, advancing decarbonisation efforts.

You will join a small, fast-moving team delivering multiple releases daily, shaping end-to-end production systems and ensuring robust testing, reliability, and scalable data-driven decisions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building mission-critical backend systems.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, high-ownership environments.
• Excellence in Python and related tooling.
• Strong discipline in testing and automation.
• Experienced user of AI coding tools.
• Experience managing teams of 5+ engineers.
• Excellent team player with low ego and high initiative.
• Genuine interest in transforming energy markets and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of Software Engineers and Data Scientists
• Own projects end-to-end, from first conversations to production
• Collaborate with modelling and data teams to embed insights
• Deploy agentic systems enabling fast, data-driven decisions

Skills

Backend systems

Python

Testing & automation

AI tooling

Team leadership

Data science collaboration

Tools

AWS

MLOps

Job description

Please note that we are open to considering candidates who require visa sponsorship (subject to eligibility and company approval)

Aurora helps governments, investors, and utilities make billion‑dollar decisions on the journey to net‑zero. Based in Oxford, you will work in a dynamic and growing engineering organisation that builds cloud-based software to track and model power grids around the world.

As a Software Engineer on the AI team you will build systems where LLMs autonomously plan, and call tools, to navigate large, multi-dimensional, fast-evolving data. Your work will amplify the value of Aurora's data, models, and forecasts to researchers, investors, and policy‑makers around the world, and directly impact the decisions that drive the decarbonisation of grids around the world.

You will work in a small, fast‑paced team that releases changes multiple times a day. The successful applicant will be an excellent problem solver, a strong team player, and a proven ability to take big projects from conception to production.

• Manage a team of Software Engineers and Data Scientists
• Own projects from end‑to‑end, from first conversations with users through to production systems
• Work with modelling and data teams to embed proprietary insights into production systems
• Deploy agentic systems that enable fast, multi‑dimensional, data‑driven decisions

Required attributes:

• 10+ years developing impactful, mission‑critical backend systems
• The ability to work in fast‑paced, high‑ownership environments
• Excellence in one or more language (we mostly use Python)
• Strong discipline in testing and automation
• Experienced, judicious user of AI coding tools
• Previous experience managing teams of 5+ engineers
• An exceptional team player - low‑ego, high‑initiative
• Genuine interest in the transformation of energy markets and infrastructure

Desirable attributes:

• Hands‑on experience building LLM‑based systems
• Experience testing non‑deterministic systems
• Understanding of statistics and inferential methods
• LangGraph, RAG, MCP, MLOps, IaaC, AWS