Senior Applied AI Engineer
First seen by Alion on Nov 13, 2026.
About Platned
Platned is a rapidly expanding Enterprise Services company headquartered in the UK with a growing global presence. We are business transformation specialists, helping organisations maximise their investment in the world-class IFS product suite through comprehensive implementation, consultancy, and managed services. This role sits in our product team, building enterprise AI solutions used across a range of business systems.
Role Overview
We are a growing product team building enterprise AI solutions for businesses that run complex operations. We are looking for a senior engineer who enjoys turning real business processes into AI agents that people rely on every day. You will work closely with product, customers and domain experts to design, build and improve agents that deliver measurable results.
Key Responsibilities
- Build AI agents that support real business workflows, from automation to guided decision making.
- Design how agents find and use information, including retrieval, memory and context management.
- Build tools that let agents read from and act on enterprise business systems safely.
- Create evaluation sets and automated tests that prove agents work before and after every release.
- Work with users and stakeholders to define success, gather feedback and improve agents over time.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- 5 or more years in software engineering.
- At least 1 year shipping LLM or AI agent features used by real users.
- Strong Python skills.
- Experience with retrieval augmented generation, tool calling and structured outputs.
- Experience writing evaluations and measuring AI quality.
- Experience with context engineering, guardrails and human review steps for agents used by real people.
- Solid API and integration skills.
- Hands-on use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor or GitHub Copilot in daily engineering work.
- Good judgement on where AI adds value and where a simpler approach works better.
- Comfortable working with business users and translating needs into technical solutions.
Nice To Have
- Integration experience with ERP, EAM, CRM or field service systems.
- Domain knowledge in asset maintenance, field service, supply chain, procurement, project delivery or finance within operations-heavy industries.
- Experience building assistants for chat or email channels.
- Experience with more than one AI agent framework.
- Experience with knowledge graphs or search systems.
- Familiarity with JavaScript or TypeScript.
What We Offer
- High-Growth Environment: Join a company scaling rapidly across global markets.
- Your Focus: Direct impact on solutions used by enterprise customers
- Competitive Package: Attractive salary & benefits.
- Career Development: Dedicated time and budget for learning, AI tools and conferences
How to Apply
If you are a dedicated Senior Applied AI Engineer ready to make a meaningful impact in a high-growth global company, we would love to hear from you.
Submit your CV with a short note (up to 200 words) about an AI feature you shipped: who used it, how you measured whether it worked, and what you changed after launch.
Due to our continued success and rapid growth, interviews will be conducted promptly and decisions made within a short timeframe.