Software Engineer, Core AI Services

AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies.

Job Title:R&D Member of Technical Staff II, Core AI Services

Location:Cambridge, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

Employment Type: full-time

The job

We are looking for a passionate Software Engineer to join our Core AI Services team. In this role, you will help design, develop, and scale AI-enabling platform services and public APIs that are secure, reliable, and cloud-native. These services will act as foundational building blocks for AI adoption across AVEVA’s product portfolio and partner ecosystem.

If you are a motivated engineer who is energized by the challenge of building scalable platform services and clean APIs for modern AI workloads, we want to talk to you.

Working at the forefront of agentic systems and harness engineering, you will join an agile Scrum team with a true builder mindset—delivering innovative, secure, and production-grade AI capabilities with the agility of a startup. This role is ideal for an engineer with a genuine passion for keeping up with the latest AI engineering patterns and practices, eager to translate emerging tech into reliable, enterprise-ready software.

• Build scalable, fault-tolerant cloud-native services on Microsoft Azure, ensuring high performance and reliability.

• Develop and refine secure, well-documented public APIs and SDKs for consumption by internal and external developers using ASP.NET Core and C#.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end solutions across data pipelines, orchestration, and service APIs.

• Embed robust security controls to protect sensitive data and ensure secure access to AI services.

• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and implementation discussions to ensure engineering excellence.

• Minimum of 2 years professional experience in software engineering, preferably in platform or cloud-native service development, Microsoft and .NET technologies a plus.

• Solid understanding of RESTful API design, versioning, testing, and lifecycle management.

• Proficient in securing APIs, managing authentication/authorization and data privacy practices.

• Practical experience deploying and debugging scalable cloud-native services using PaaS, Docker, and Kubernetes.

• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyse complex technical challenges and propose scalable solutions.

• Interest or exposure to Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), agent orchestration, prompt engineering, and tool calling.

• Familiarity with AI standards such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent2
  
  Agent (A2A).

• Experience with tools for automated testing and evaluation of AI outputs

• Experience working in Agile teams and collaborating across global R&D locations

Our global team of 2000+ developers work on an incredibly diverse portfolio of over 75 industrial automation and engineering products, which cover everything from data management to 3D design. AI and cloud are at the centre of our strategy, and we have over 150 patents to our name.

Our track record of innovation is no fluke – it’s the result of a structured and deliberate focus on learning, collaboration and inclusivity. If you want to build applications that solve big problems, join us.

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Flexible benefits fund, emergency leave days, adoption leave, 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), pension, life cover, private medical insurance, parental leave, education assistance program.

It’s possible we’re hiring for this position in multiple countries, in which case the above benefits apply to the primary location. Specific benefits vary by country, but our packages are similarly…