About British Engines

British Engines is a leading engineering group with a long heritage in the North East of England since 1922.

Employing approximately 1,200 people, our eight businesses design, manufacture, assemble, test and service leading products and components for a wide range of industries including the renewables, digital, defence, power, nuclear, aerospace, robotics, oil and gas, chemical, marine, construction and agriculture sectors.

We’re looking for an AI Engineer to join our Business Systems team. Reporting to the Head of Business Systems, you’ll develop AI-powered applications, integrate business systems and deliver reliable automation across our divisions and group. Your work will help improve customer service, quality and decision making by making effective use of our core systems, including ERP and HR platforms.

 

What you'll be doing

 

  • Designing, developing and maintaining internal AI-powered web applications, backend services and automated workflows.
  • Integrating AI models with business systems, databases and REST APIs using approved data sources and software tools.
  • Helping to build agentic solutions that retrieve information and use approved tools to complete business tasks
  • Testing and evaluating solutions for accuracy, reliability and performance
  • Deploying, documenting, monitoring and troubleshooting applications, and supporting their continuous improvement
  • Following software engineering best practice, including version control, code reviews and CI/CD processes
  • Ensuring solutions meet appropriate security, data protection and access control requirements
  • Working with colleagues and stakeholders to understand requirements and develop solutions that meet business needs
  • Keeping up to date with developments and best practice in AI
  • Working safely and in line with the company’s health, safety and environmental policies
  • Carrying out any other duties not listed above as may reasonably be expected

 

Who we're looking for

 

You’ll have strong Python coding skills, with experience developing and integrating REST APIs. Experience of software testing, debugging and version control using Git is also essential. You’ll be innovative, logical and able to understand business requirements, choose appropriate tools and consider the impact of changes on existing systems.

 

Experience integrating language models through APIs, evaluating AI systems and working with SQL and relational databases would be beneficial. Knowledge of SharePoint and Microsoft Graph, RAG and semantic search, workflow orchestration, or developing web applications and backend services using frameworks such as Django or FastAPI would also be an advantage. Familiarity with CI/CD, Linux, containerisation, application security and data protection principles would be useful.

 

You’ll be an effective communicator who listens to stakeholder requirements and can work on your own initiative as well as part of a team. Strong time management, commercial awareness and an ability to understand business processes are important. You’ll also need to be flexible in response to business needs.

 

A degree, preferably in an appropriate discipline, and/or time served in a similar role is required. A full UK driving licence is also essential.

 

 

Benefits

 

Wellbeing app (Employee Assistance Program)

Holiday buy & sell

Car scheme

Competitive pay

Enhanced pension

Training & development