AI Prompt Engineer

, United Kingdom

Job Family Group:

Research and Development

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

October 10, 2025

Business unit:

Projects and Technology

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

What's the role

As the AI Engineer, you will deliver end-to-end GenAI solutions in a production scale environment. You will collaborate with Data Science and ML team to deploy reliable, distributed, real-time models to production, using existing and emerging methods and technologies that could be effectively applied to Shell use cases. Develops and refines inputs (prompts) for AI systems to optimize the accuracy and usefulness of the AI's responses. 

What you'll be doing

• Propose, design, build and deploy AI/ML solutions, frameworks, automation, and orchestration to AI applications using microservices and event driven system-based practices

• Build ML pipelines using MLOps standards for automated model deployment, model performance monitoring, data drift detection in market standard platforms like Azure Machine Learning, AWS Sagemaker or Databricks

• Collaborate with Infrastructure, data engineering and DevOps teams to increase our deployment velocity, including the process for deploying models and data pipelines into production

• Designing high quality prompts to generate the desired output from GenAI systems

What you bring

• Holds bachelor's or master's degree in any of the following: Engineering, statistics, machine learning, or relevant areas

• Deep knowledge of various prompting techniques and experience in Prompt development and refinement. Testing of prompt accuracy and efficiency 

• Experience in developing data APIs, microservices and event driven systems to integrate ML systems

• Experience using Machine Learning (MLOps) principles and standards such as automated model deployment, model performance monitoring, data drift detection etc.

• Development competency across a breadth of languages, frameworks, and tooling, such as Python, CoPilot, Azure

• Good understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs) and other generative AI frameworks for inference in production.

• Experience in extracting, cleansing, and manipulating large, diverse structured and unstructured data

• Knowledge in applying ML algorithms, Optimization, and technologies to time series forecasting

• Knowledge in Bash\Powershell Scripting and Linux Operating system and networking fundamentals.

• Strong communication skills, especially explaining technical concepts to businesspeople & to collaborate in a multi-disciplinary team

• Strong desire to stay ahead of industry trends & technologies with a commitment to continuous learning.

• Experience working in small, empowered, delivery focused, cross-functional and collaborating teams

• Experience of working in a virtual team and with virtual stakeholders

What we offer 

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You'll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You'll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself. 

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together. 

• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead. 

• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices. 

• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise. 

• Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.  

• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working. 

• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world. 

• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents. 

• Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply. 

• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams. 

• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes. 

Note: As part of your application, please submit a motivation letter along with your resume. The motivation letter should outline your reasons for applying to this position and how your skills and experiences align with the job requirements. This will help us better understand your interest in the role and your suitability for the position.

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world's most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

Shell in The United Kingdom

Shell UK remains one of the North Sea's biggest producers, supplying around 10% of the UK's total oil and gas needs. But perhaps the most recognisable face of Shell in the UK is our network of over 1,000 Shell-branded service stations.

In the years ahead, as the UK looks to strengthen energy security and deliver its 2050 net-zero goal, Shell UK aims to play a crucial role. We aim to be a major investor in the UK energy system by helping our customers decarbonise with a focus on transport and industry.

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