Senior AI / Automation Engineer

Our client is looking for a Senior AI / Automation Engineer to build and productionise AI-powered enterprise workflows. This is not a chatbot or RAG-focused role . The ideal candidate will combine strong software engineering with hands-on experience in LLMs, agentic AI, document intelligence and enterprise automation .

Key Responsibilities

• Build and deploy production LLM and agentic AI workflows . Develop tool-calling agents integrated with enterprise APIs and systems
• Build document extraction, classification and reasoning solutions
• Implement RAG, context management and structured outputs
• Integrate AI with deterministic enterprise workflows
• Build guardrails, validation, confidence thresholds and human-in-the-loop controls . Develop automated AI evaluation and regression testing
• Implement model routing, fallback strategies and inference-cost controls
• Monitor AI quality, latency, token usage and failure rates
• Determine when AI should be used versus deterministic software

Desired Candidate Profile

Strong software engineering background with production AI/LLM experience . Advanced Python and API/service development skills. Hands-on experience with RAG, embeddings, tool/function calling and structured outputs . Experience building asynchronous, stateful and multi-step workflows. Strong understanding of testing, observability and production reliability. Experience with LLM evaluation, model selection and inference economics . Proven track record taking AI solutions from prototype to production . Strong Advantage Experience with: Agent orchestration and multi-agent systems Enterprise document processing and OCR AI automation across Finance, Procurement, HR or Legal Multi-model architectures Enterprise security, data residency and regulated environments The key mindset: build AI that works reliably in the real world including knowing what to do when the model is wrong