AI Engineer

About Everfox

Everfox provides trusted connectivity solutions designed to secure the world's most critical environments and protect sensitive data essential for gaining a competitive advantage. Focused on mission-critical operations, the company ensures data protection, user access security, and neutralization of threats across diverse domains. Everfox emphasizes enabling rapid missions and secure collaboration, preserving trust in AI and advanced analytic data.

Role Purpose

The AI Engineer position at Everfox demands versatility and the ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases swiftly. The role involves developing AI-driven features, enhancing engineering processes with modern AI tools, and collaborating across teams to produce high-quality, maintainable software solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain features across multiple programming languages, frameworks, and internal systems.
• Integrate AI functionalities into products, including model and API integration, designing prompts and contexts, retrieval mechanisms, orchestration, and related infrastructure.
• Establish evaluation methods, automated testing, and guardrails to ensure AI behaves consistently and predictably.
• Leverage and expand AI tools and agentic workflows to accelerate development, improve test coverage and documentation, and minimize manual tasks.
• Rapidly prototype solutions to reduce risks connected to ambiguous or complex challenges.
• Adapt quickly to unfamiliar systems by mapping essential components, asking insightful questions, and making early contributions.
• Engage as a guest engineer in other teams' codebases, adhering to scope, standards, and providing clean, maintainable deliverables.
• Share knowledge, reusable tools, and best practices to enhance engineering standards organization-wide.
• Maintain strict quality, security, logging, testing standards, and responsible AI data management.
• Contribute to continuous integration/delivery pipelines, automation, and developer tools to streamline project execution.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Over 4 years of professional software development experience with a proven history of delivering dependable software.
• Experience using agentic coding tools such as Claude Code or Codex, including building custom extensions.
• Expertise in at least one programming language with the flexibility to quickly learn others.
• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, concurrency, networking, APIs, testing, and basic security principles.
• Ability to comprehend unfamiliar codes, conceptualize their operation, and evaluate the effects of modifications.
• Effective communicator with excellent collaboration skills across teams.
• Self-driven, adaptable, and confident in tackling challenging and ambiguous assignments with support.
• Willingness and ability to obtain Government Security Clearance if required.

Desirable Skills

• Experience with AI or large language model integration (APIs, RAG, tool calling, agent frameworks, hosted or local inference).
• Background in improving legacy systems by adding tests, refactoring, and decreasing technical debts.
• Exposure to diverse platforms including desktop, mobile, backend, and system software.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like GitLab and Docker, and Python for automation tasks.
• Interest or experience in security-sensitive environments.
• Awareness of usability and user experience considerations.
• Strong empathy, clear communication, and ability to handle disagreements constructively.

Compensation and Benefits

The estimated salary range for this position is between £70,000 and £110,000 GBP annually, adjustable based on individual experience, location, and business requirements. Alongside the base salary and potential bonus or commission, Everfox offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes competitive annual leave, pension matching, private medical insurance, dental coverage, health cash plans, income protection, and a hybrid work environment.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Everfox is an equal opportunity employer, complying with all relevant laws prohibiting discrimination. The company welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, marital or medical condition, or any other protected category. Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities upon request.

Additional Information

Candidates must have the legal right to work in the London, UK area, and are encouraged to apply even if they do not meet every single qualification listed. The recruitment team supports overcoming obstacles to access the recruitment process for disabled individuals.