Senior Applied AI Engineer – Generative & Agentic AI
- €100-112K + Bonus + Bens
- 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 suited to someone who enjoys delivering real-world AI products and working at the intersection of software engineering, agentic workflows, and applied GenAI.
The Role
You will design, build, and operate advanced AI systems end-to-end, with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and production readiness.
- 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 such as hybrid search, reranking, and 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 practices to monitor cost, latency, quality, and system performance
- Optimise AI systems for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency across models and providers
- Build and operate backend services, including Python APIs, workflow orchestration, and event-driven systems
- Collaborate with data science, backend, and delivery teams to deliver scalable AI solutions
- Contribute to reusable components, technical documentation, and ongoing AI innovation initiatives
Experience & Skills
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering, applied machine learning, or applied AI
- Strong Python development skills with solid software engineering fundamentals
- Proven experience building and deploying LLM-powered applications in production
- Hands-on 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 and operating production systems on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Comfortable working with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and production environments
- Strong delivery mindset with a focus on building high-quality, reliable AI systems
- Must have Irish/EU Citizenship and be based within a commutable distance to Dublin