AI Engineer

12 Months Contract Work Location: 150 Beach Road, The Gateway Mon - Fri, 9am to 6pm Overview: We are seeking an AI Engineer to build production AI capabilities for an enterprise HR platform on Microsoft Azure.

You will develop Python-based AI services that enable employees, managers and HR teams to complete tasks through natural language, voice and interactive workspaces, reducing manual data entry while preserving validation and human oversight.

You will own AI orchestration, agent tools, knowledge retrieval and evaluation, working with the Technical Lead, Full Stack Engineer, UI/UX Engineer and Product Owner to deliver complete HR journeys across the platform.

Responsibilities

AI services and agent orchestration Build Python/FastAPI AI services using Azure OpenAI/OpenAI models. Implement intent recognition, entity extraction, agent routing, conversation context and a versioned tool registry.

Develop workflows that clarify missing information, prepare structured actions, obtain required approvals and invoke authorised HR APIs. Implement state persistence, safe retries, idempotency and recovery for multi-step tasks.

Keep AI orchestration within the AI service layer and integrate through the thin Python gateway. Use validated domain services for business rules, calculations and transaction execution.

Knowledge retrieval and data integration Build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines for HR policies and documents, including ingestion, extraction, chunking, embeddings, search, citations and document refresh. Apply tenant, role and document permissions before retrieval and tool execution.

Integrate with governed APIs and SQL database in Microsoft Fabric; support analytics through OneLake, semantic models and Power BI.

Conversational and dynamic user experiences Integrate text and speech experiences with the frontend team, including streaming, interruptions, session continuity and accessible text alternatives. Connect speech output and timing to avatar compone