Senior Applied AI Engineer – Generative & Agentic AI
An exciting opportunity for a Senior Applied AI Engineer to join a global AI Innovation and R&D team focused on building production-ready Generative and Agentic AI systems.
This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys shipping real AI products and working at the intersection of software engineering, agentic workflows, and applied GenAI.
The Role
- Design, build, and own production-grade agentic AI systems end-to-end
- Develop stateful and reliable agent workflows, including planning, tool usage, memory, and human-in-the-loop controls
- Implement advanced retrieval and grounding techniques (hybrid search, reranking, contextual assembly)
- Build secure tool integrations and expose internal and external services for agent consumption
- Treat AI evaluation as an engineering discipline using regression testing, metrics, and release gates
- Implement LLMOps and AgentOps instrumentation to monitor cost, latency, quality, and system failures
- Optimise AI systems for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency across models and providers
- Build and operate backend services (Python APIs, workflow orchestration, event-driven systems)
- Collaborate with data science, backend, and delivery teams to ship scalable AI solutions
- Contribute to reusable components, technical documentation, and applied AI innovation initiatives
Experience & Skills
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, applied ML, or applied AI
- Strong Python development skills with solid software engineering fundamentals
- Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM-powered applications in production
- Experience with agentic frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangGraph, CrewAI, or similar
- Strong understanding of retrieval systems and vector databases
- Familiarity with agent design patterns including planning, tool use, ReAct, and multi-agent systems
- Experience deploying production systems on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Comfortable working with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and production operations
- Strong delivery mindset with the ability to ship high-quality AI systems
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