Senior AI Engineer

Howden is a collective, a group of talented and passionate people all around the world. Together, we have pushed the boundaries of insurance. We are united by a shared passion and no-limits mindset, and our strength lies in our ability to collaborate as a powerful international team comprised of 20,000 employees spanning over 100 countries.

Our people are our biggest asset as well as our largest shareholder group and are everything that makes us unique; our inclusive culture, the quality service we offer our clients, and our continued growth, all come from our people-first approach. There's no such thing as individual success. We all need to play our part, contributing our skills and experience to make a true difference.

That's Howden.

Why work at Howden?

We have always been employee-owned and driven by entrepreneurial spirit. Right from the beginning, we've focused on employing talented individuals and empowering them to make a difference for clients and the company, whilst building successful and fulfilling careers at the same time. Simply put, we hire talented specialists and give them what they need to make a difference.

Always have, always will.

People join Howden for many different reasons, but they stay for the same one: our culture. It's what sets us apart, and the reason our employees have been turning down disappointed head-hunters for years. Whatever your priorities, work/life balance, career progression, sustainability, volunteering, you'll find like-minded people driving change at Howden.

What is the role?

Senior AI Engineer builds and ships AI enabled software. This is a hands-on build role on Howden's US AI Engineering team: writing the agents, the pipelines, the integrations, and the infrastructure as code that puts AI capability into production on Azure. This is a software engineering role first. The work is production code in Python, Node.js and Type Script, and .NET (C#), sitting on top of Azure services and Howden data.

You will work from solution designs and integration patterns set by the AI Lead and enterprise architecture, and you will own the implementation end to end. Expect to spend most of your time in code, in Terraform, and in CI/CD pipelines, with a heavy emphasis on agent-assisted development: using coding agents and AI development tooling to move faster than a conventional engineering pace and knowing when to trust the output and when to rewrite it.

This role is self-directed. You will be handed an outcome and a rough shape, and you are expected to break it down, sequence it, unblock yourself, and deliver production-quality work collaborating with other team members.

What success looks like

• AI agents and services running in production on Azure, built by you, with tests, telemetry, and deployment automation attached.
• Terraform and pipeline code that provisions and deploys AI workloads repeatably across environments with no manual steps.
• Vendor AI platforms wired into Howden systems through working integrations, not slide decks.
• Knowledge bases and retrieval layers that agents can rely on, with retrieval quality measured against real queries rather than assumed.
• Agent-assisted development practices are used daily and shared with the team as working examples: prompts, harnesses, evaluation scripts, and repository conventions that make coding agents productive on our codebase.
• Work delivered from a stated outcome with minimal direction, escalating early when something genuinely needs a decision above your level.
• Design input that changes outcomes: options, trade-offs, and working spikes brought to the AI Lead and architecture before decisions are locked.

What will you be doing?

AI Agent & Application Development

• Build production AI agents and conversational solutions on…