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You will design and build flows, agents, skills and evaluations that do useful work within real business processes, not isolated chat demonstrations.\nWhat to expect in this role\nA project may require you to map a business workflow, decide where AI should and should not act, create skills that connect an agent to enterprise APIs, build a grounded retrieval layer, manage context or memory, and define the evaluation set that proves the solution works. You will design explicit permission boundaries, human approval points and escalation paths so that increasing autonomy does not create uncontrolled risk.\nThis is a software- and solution-engineering role built around available models. You will collaborate with AI Engineers when custom model work or inference optimisation is needed, Data Scientists when statistical validity or analytical insight is central, and Software and Platform Engineers on enterprise integration and production operations.\nWhat you will do\nTranslate business processes into clear flows, agent responsibilities, skills, decision points and measurable success criteria.\nDesign agentic architectures that integrate foundation models, enterprise applications, APIs, data sources and human controls.\nDevelop and test flows, agents, skills, services and APIs using strong software-engineering practices.\nBuild retrieval, context, memory and state-management patterns that provide relevant, grounded information.\nCreate evaluation datasets and automated checks for task completion, grounding, tool use, safety, latency and cost.\nDeploy and monitor AI services, using traces and operational evidence to improve prompts, retrieval, context and orchestration.\nImplement guardrails, access controls, privacy protections and secure tool-use patterns.\nCommunicate behaviour, trade-offs, limitations and operational requirements to customers and engineering teams.\nResearch emerging models and frameworks, adopting them only where evaluation demonstrates meaningful value.\nWhat you need\nA bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Data Engineering, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence or a related field.\nTypically 3-5 years' relevant experience in software or AI engineering, including production software delivery.\nStrong Python capability and evidence of clean, testable and maintainable engineering practices.\nPractical experience integrating foundation-model capabilities into applications, services or workflows.\nExperience with APIs, enterprise data integration and cloud-based delivery practices.\nThe judgement to balance usefulness and autonomy with reliability, security, privacy, latency and cost.\nCore technical skills\nWe do not expect experience with every named framework. We do expect strong capability across the underlying engineering concepts and the ability to evaluate tools objectively.\nSoftware engineering: Python, modular design, automated testing, debugging, Git, code review, CI/CD and maintainable service development. TypeScript or C# is useful in integration-heavy environments.\nAPIs and integration: REST APIs, authentication, microservices or distributed-system concepts, enterprise data integration and safe tool contracts.\nFoundation-model applications: Model selection, prompt engineering, structured outputs, tool or function calling, context-window management and failure handling.\nAgentic design: Flows, agent responsibilities, skills, state, planning patterns, tool permissions, human-in-the-loop controls and orchestration.\nRetrieval and memory: RAG, embeddings, chunking, search and reranking, citations or grounding, vector stores, and context or memory patterns with appropriate retention controls.\nEvaluation: Test cases, evaluation datasets, rubrics, automated scoring, trace review, regression testing and measurement of quality, safety, latency and cost.\nCloud and delivery: Docker, CI/CD, configuration and secrets management, cloud AI services, observability, logging and production support.\nSecurity and governance: Prompt-injection and data-leakage controls, privacy and PII protection, least privilege, auditability, guardrails and safe escalation or failure behaviour.\nUseful, but not essential\nAn Honours or Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.\nRelevant Microsoft Azure, AWS or Google Cloud AI certification.\nExperience with MCP and an orchestration framework such as Semantic Kernel, LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI or an equivalent.\nExperience with n8n, Make or comparable automation tooling.\nExposure to PostgreSQL, vector databases, graph databases, Kubernetes, vLLM, Ollama or private-model deployment patterns.\nExperience implementing enterprise identity, authorisation and approval workflows for AI tools.\nHow you work\nYou understand the business process before deciding where an agent belongs.\nYou design autonomy deliberately and do not confuse impressive demos with safe production capability.\nYou test behaviour systematically and use evidence to improve the solution.\nYou communicate uncertainty, limitations and operational trade-offs honestly.\nYou collaborate across business, software, data, AI and platform disciplines.\nThe opportunity\nYou will join an innovation-focused engineering environment where agentic AI must deliver measurable value under real enterprise constraints. 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