Agentic AI Developer - Cork, Ireland

QT Technologies Ireland Limited is seeking a candidate for a role in its Engineering Group, specifically within the ASICS Engineering team.

Core Responsibilities

• Agent Architecture & Design: Design system architecture that breaks high-level user goals into executable, autonomous steps.
• API & Tool Integration: Connect AI models to external services, databases, and APIs so agents can actively manipulate data and perform actions.
• Prompt Engineering & Reasoning: Craft system prompts, chain of thought pathways, and function calling logic to guide agent decision making and tool usage.
• Memory & State Management: Implement short term and long term memory systems so agents maintain context across conversations and workflows.
• Monitoring & Guardrails: Monitor agent behaviour in production, define safety guardrails, and implement error handling and human in the loop workflows for critical tasks.

Essential Skills & Qualifications

• Programming Languages: Proficiency in Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
• AI Frameworks: Familiarity with frameworks used to orchestrate agents and chains (e.g., LangChain).
• LLM Competency: Deep understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs), tokenization, embeddings, and API capabilities.
• System Integrations: Experience with RESTful APIs, vector databases, and semantic search.
• Infrastructure: Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) for deploying and scaling intelligent applications.

Where you will be working

The city of Cork offers a high quality of life and is one of Europe's top 20 location choices, with a thriving economy driven by over 170 overseas companies and a strong international connectivity via Cork Airport.

Equal Opportunities

We are an Equal Opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any protected classification.

What's on Offer

• Salary, stock, and performance related bonus
• Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Employee stock purchase scheme
• Matching pension scheme
• Education Assistance
• Relocation and immigration support (if needed)
• Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance
• Subsidised memberships for physical and mental well being
• Bicycle purchase scheme
• Employee run clubs, including running, football, chess, badminton and many more

Minimum Qualifications

• •Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or a related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience; ORMaster's degree in Science, Engineering, or a related field and 1+ year of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience; ORPhD in Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.