AI Product Developer

Job Title

AI Product Developer (Leeds, UK)

About the Job you are considering:

The AI Product Developer (AI Foundry) is responsible for designing, building and operationalising Copilot‑based and LLM‑powered solutions. The role focuses on secure engineering, enterprise‑grade integration, reusable accelerators, and scalable AI components that strengthen internal delivery capability and reduce dependency on external vendors.

Operating within the Data & AI function and reporting to the Senior Manager – Artificial Intelligence, this role contributes to the organisation’s AI transformation by delivering safe, reliable, and production‑ready AI solutions that align with enterprise architecture and responsible AI principles.

This position carries no direct reports but requires extensive collaboration with cross‑functional teams across operations, engineering, architecture, and governance forums.

Hybrid working:

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your Role:

• Design and develop Copilot solutions, intelligent agents and LLM workflows.
• Build scalable components for orchestration, retrieval, automation and model interfaces.
• Integrate AI with enterprise systems while ensuring security and architectural alignment.
• Prototype rapidly to validate feasibility, UX, performance and model behaviour.
• Implement secure‑by‑design and responsible AI practices including guardrails and auditability.
• Optimise RAG pipelines, embeddings, vector search and metadata strategies.
• Create reusable AI assets, documentation and contribute to standards and architecture reviews.
• Mentor teams, support governance forums and manage AI‑related escalations.

Your Skills:

• Hands‑on experience with LLMs, Copilot Studio, agent frameworks and AI APIs.
• Strong understanding of vector databases, embeddings, RAG and retrieval optimisation.
• Proficient in secure‑by‑design engineering, authentication, authorisation and audit controls.
• Skilled with Azure AI, cloud‑native engineering, observability and telemetry.
• Experienced in DevOps, CI/CD, IaC and modern engineering pipelines.
• Able to translate complex requirements into scalable AI solutions and debug model behaviour.
• Strong documentation, collaboration, stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Knowledge of AI ethics, responsible AI principles and continuous learning in emerging technologies.

We are a Disability Confident Employer:

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and 
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you):

• You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation.  We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. 
  To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
• You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
• You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

Why you should consider Capgemini:

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask.  When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts.  We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible.  It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future.  By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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