Senior Software Engineer

About the job

Entity: Technology Job Family Group: IT&S Group Job Description: About bp/team

bp technology is the central organization for all software and platform development. We build all the technology that powers bp’s businesses, from upstream energy production to downstream energy delivery to our customers. We have a variety of teams depending on your areas of interest, including infrastructure and backend services through to customer-facing web and native applications. We encourage our teams to adapt quickly by using native AWS and Azure services, including serverless, and enable them to pick the best technology for a given problem. This is meant to empower our software and platform engineers while allowing them to learn and develop themselves.

Job Description: Summary We’re looking for software engineers who think holistically, automate relentlessly, and are fluent in the fast-moving world of AI tooling and infrastructure—but grounded in disciplined engineering principles. Our AI organization is building high-impact AI-powered applications that deliver real business value at speed. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in building and deploying scalable AI-powered applications through solid software engineering perfection combined with pragmatic use of modern AI capabilities. This is a role for seasoned engineers who are excited about applying AI in practical and scalable ways. We’re looking for individuals who thrive at the intersection of focused software development and modern AI applications. You should be comfortable working across the full lifecycle of a product—from ideation and architecture to deployment and automation—while navigating ambiguity and driving toward execution. Strong systems thinking, ownership mindset, and the ability to ship value fast are essential.

Job Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and maintain production-grade AI applications and services using modern software engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, observability, cloud-native design).

- Define and implement foundational platforms and tools (e.g., conversational bots, AI-powered search, unstructured data processing, GenBI) that are reusable and scalable across the enterprise.

- Participate in multi-functional team initiatives—embedded projects with business stakeholders—to rapidly build and deploy AI solutions that solve high-priority business problems.

- Evaluate and integrate existing AI tools, frameworks, and APIs (e.g., LLMs, vector DBs, retrieval-augmented generation, AI agents) into robust applications.

- Champion automation in workflows—from data management ingestion and preprocessing to evaluation, to model integration and deployment.

- Collaborate with data scientists, product managers, and other engineers to ensure end-to-end delivery and reliability of AI products.

- Stay ahead of emerging AI technologies, but prioritize practical application and delivery over experimental research.

- Contribute to the internal knowledge base, tooling libraries, and documentation to scale AI engineering standard processes across the organization.

Job Qualifications

- Extensive professional software engineering experience; ability to independently design and ship complex systems in production.

- Strong programming skills in Python (preferred), Java, or similar languages, with experience in developing microservices, APIs, and backend systems. · Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to balance engineering rigor with delivery speed.

- Solid understanding of software architecture, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP), and modern DevOps practices.

- Experience integrating machine learning models into production systems (e.g., LLMs via APIs, fine-tuning, RAG patterns, embeddings, agents and crew of agents etc.).

- Ability to move quickly while maintaining code quality, test coverage, and operational perfection. Preferred:

- Familiarity with AI/ML tools such as LangChain, Haystack, Hugging Face, Weaviate, or similar ecosystems.

- Hands-on experience with Retrieval Augmented Generation applications, AI agents and systems built around them.

- Experience using GenAI frameworks such as LlamaIndex, Crew AI, AutoGen, or similar agentic/LLM orchestration toolkits.

- Exposure to working with unstructured data (documents, conversations, images) and transforming it into usable structured formats.

- Experience building chatbots, search systems, or generative AI interfaces.

- Background in working within platform engineering or internal developer tools teams.

- Prior experience working in an embedded (forward-deployed) team model with business customers. · Experience building production grade, reliable AI applications

About bp

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner! We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Additional Information We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Even though the job is advertised as full time, please contact the hiring manager or the recruiter as flexible working arrangements may be considered.

Travel Requirement Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role Relocation Assistance: This role is eligible for relocation within country Remote Type: This position is a hybrid of office/remote working Skills: Commercial Acumen, Communication, Data Analysis, Data cleansing and transformation, Data domain knowledge, Data Integration, Data Management, Data Manipulation, Data Sourcing, Data strategy and governance, Data Structures and Algorithms (Inactive), Data visualization and interpretation, Digital Security, Extract, transform and load, Group Problem Solving . 
 Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please  contact us .

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