AI Software Engineer - Contract (Inside IR35)Up to £650/day Inside IR35 6 months (strong likelihood of extension) Mostly remote - 2 days/month in Glasgow bi-weekly.Our client, a large Scottish enterprise business, has established a new AI function. This is a genuine hands-on build opportunity - not a design-and-handoff role - sitting within a defined, multi-initiative roadmap with a clear pipeline of work well beyond the initial contract term. This role calls for a strong .NET developer who also brings Python and AI/agentic experience - .NET is the priority skill, with AI depth as the key differentiator.The RoleYou''ll join a small, newly-formed AI team (three engineers plus a manager) where each person owns one initiative end-to-end, from design through to production build. This is a hands-on implementation role for someone who wants to build, not just architect.Own and deliver one initiative from the roadmap end-to-end - options span product/sales automation, a data-heavy telemetry and analytics build, and an agentic workflow build for a legal functionDesign, build, and deploy genuine agentic AI systems - not just chatbot or single-turn LLM integrationsWork primarily within Azure AI Foundry and Semantic Kernel for orchestration, with the flexibility to draw on AWS and Google Vertex/Gemini where relevant (enterprise accounts already in place across all three)Some front-end work in .NET MVC (internal-facing tooling), alongside Python-first backend and AI/agentic ..... full job details .....