SeniorSoftwareEngineer

### Lead the design and delivery of AI-powered applications using .NET, Azure AI Services, and Azure OpenAI, leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Semantic Kernel for agentic orchestration. Own end-to-end solution quality (performance, security, reliability) and mentor engineers across teams. **About the role:** In this opportunity as a Senior Software Engineer AI, you will: * Architect and build .NET services and APIs integrating Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Services * Design and implement RAG pipelines using Azure AI Search for hybrid retrieval and grounding * Develop agentic workflows with tool/function calling, planning, memory, and safe execution boundaries * Build and manage Semantic Kernel plugins/skills, including planners, connectors, and memory stores * Implement observability for AI systems (cost, latency, token usage, quality metrics) using App Insights/OpenTelemetry * Ensure end-to-end solution quality: performance, security, reliability, and scalability * Collaborate with product, security, and data teams to align with compliance and business goals * Drive architecture best practices and engineering excellence across projects * Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and author technical RFCs **About you:** You're a fit for the role of Senior Software Engineer AI if your background includes: * 6+ Years of Experience with .NET technologies * C#/.NET & ASP.NET Core: Advanced async, streaming, DI, clean architecture, performance tuning; REST APIs, authentication (OAuth2/OIDC/JWT), caching, resiliency * Azure AI & OpenAI: GPT models, embeddings, function calling, streaming responses, cost optimisation * Azure AI Search & Studio: Indexing, hybrid search (BM25 + vectors), skillsets, enrichers, re-ranking; prompt flows and evaluation pipelines * RAG & Agentic AI: Chunking, metadata enrichment, hybrid retrieval, citation fidelity; multi-tool orchestration, planners, memory, guardrails * Semantic Kernel (C#): Kernels, semantic/native skills, connector