AI Engineer I - Zonda - Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Responsibilities

and Related Duties:

• Develop and maintain components of LLM, agentic, retrieval, and other AI/ML applications.
• Work with engineers and product stakeholders to translate product requirements into technical solutions.
• Build experiments and evaluations to measure AI system quality, reliability, latency, and cost.
• Prepare and integrate data required by AI applications, including retrieval and embedding-based systems.
• Contribute to deploying, monitoring, debugging, and improving AI services in production.
• Write clean, tested, maintainable code and contribute to code reviews, technical documentation, and team engineering practices.
• Keep up to date with developments in applied AI and evaluate new techniques and tools where they can improve our products.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, AI/ML, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 0–2 years of relevant professional experience. Internships, research, and substantial academic or personal projects are relevant experience.
• Strong Python programming skills and sound software engineering fundamentals.
• Practical experience building at least one meaningful AI/ML application or project.
• Sound understanding of modern LLM application concepts such as prompting, structured outputs, tool use, embeddings, retrieval/RAG, or agentic workflows.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to evaluate and debug AI system behavior.
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative software development.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with LLM or agent frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, AutoGen, or equivalent.
• Experience with retrieval systems, vector search, or vector databases.
• Familiarity with SQL and data-processing workflows.
• Experience building APIs or backend services.
• Exposure to AWS or another cloud platform.
• Familiarity with Docker, CI/CD, Kubernetes, or production of deployment workflows.
• Thorough understanding of core machine learning and NLP concepts.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools effectively.

What’s in it for you?

Working at CoStar Group means you'll enjoy a culture of collaboration and innovation that attracts the best and brightest across a broad range of disciplines. As well as having an outstanding working environment based in the Blue Fin building. Other perks include full private medical cover, dental cover, Life Assurance and member rewards, 28 days annual leave, a competitive pension, season ticket loans, enhanced maternity and paternity pay and much more!

At CoStar, we recognize the positive value of diversity and promote equality. We aim at all times to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds including but not limited to; people of all genders, of all ages, sexual orientations, ethnicities, nationalities, religions and beliefs.

CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing