Senior AI Engineer (Agentic AI)

Our client, a global data and AI organisation, are hiring a Senior AI Engineer to join their growing team in Dublin. The successful candidate will design, build, and ship production AI systems within a fast-moving AI innovation team alongside data scientists, backend engineers, and delivery leads.

Responsibilities

• Build production-grade AI agent systems end to end, from design to deployment to ongoing support.
• Design agentic workflows with checkpoints, approvals, safe retries and human-in-the-loop steps.
• Architect agents that plan, use tools, manage memory and elevate when needed.
• Build retrieval systems using vector search, reranking, and context assembly for grounded responses.
• Create evaluation frameworks: offline test sets, regression gates, and live monitoring.
• Instrument full observability across agent runs, including cost, latency, and failure tracking.
• Build backend services in Python (FastAPI), working with Postgres, event-driven patterns and production APIs.
• Deploy using Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate across teams to turn business problems into working AI solutions.

Skillset

• Minimum of 4 years in software engineering, applied ML or applied AI.
• Strong Python skills with solid engineering practices (testing, code review, version control).
• Experience building LLM-powered applications in production.
• Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks (e.g. LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, LlamaIndex).
• Experience with vector databases and retrieval systems (e.g. Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, Chroma).
• Understanding of agent patterns e.g. ReAct, multi-agent systems, tool use, planning.
• Cloud deployment experience on AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Production mindset with experience in monitoring, governance, automated testing, operational readiness.
• Familiarity with agentic coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot).

Benefits

• Salary: €93k - €110k + Bonus.
• Private healthcare.
• Life assurance and income protection.
• Strong pension.

Interested?

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