AI Engineer

Project overview

Senior AI Engineer – Contract

Requirements

Why Apply?

This is an excellent opportunity to work on advanced enterprise AI initiatives, with a strong focus on next-generation Agentic AI and production AI engineering. You will have the opportunity to influence technical direction while remaining hands-on with modern AI technologies.

Interested? Apply with your CV to discuss the opportunity in more detail.

Job Title: AI Engineer

• Minimum 5+ years' Experience within AI Engineering, Software Engineering or a closely related technical field.
• Strong hands-on Experience with LLMs, Agentic AI and/or multi-agent systems.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including APIs, distributed systems, TDD and Domain-Driven Design.
• Experience with RAG, retrieval systems, context engineering and memory architecture.
• Knowledge of Knowledge Graphs, GraphRAG, RDF or LPG would be highly beneficial.
• Experience with AI evaluation, testing and observability.
• Understanding of LLMOps / AgentOps and deploying AI solutions into production.
• Knowledge of model routing, inference efficiency, latency, token usage and cost optimisation.
• Exposure to multimodal AI across text, image or voice is advantageous.
• Strong communication and technical leadership skills, with the ability to work independently and influence engineering teams.

Project details

Hybrid

Contract: Contract Position

Experience: Minimum 5+ years in AI / Software Engineering or a closely related field

We are looking for an experienced Senior AI Engineer to join a highly technical team working on the design and delivery of enterprise-scale AI solutions.

This is a hands-on engineering role suited to someone with strong Experience across modern AI technologies, particularly Agentic AI, LLM-based applications, RAG, AI evaluation and production AI systems. You will also provide technical leadership, helping establish scalable architecture, reusable engineering patterns and best practices across multiple teams.

Key Responsibilities

Dublin, Ireland

Job Type: Contract

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• Design and develop production-grade Agentic AI and multi-agent systems.
• Build agent orchestration, tool execution, state management, workflow, retry and recovery patterns.
• Design scalable context, memory, retrieval and knowledge architectures.
• Develop reusable AI capabilities and integrations using technologies such as MCP, A2A, plugins and tool calling.
• Establish approaches for AI evaluation, testing, observability, LLMOps and production debugging.
• Work with RAG, GraphRAG, Knowledge Graphs and other retrieval technologies.
• Support the development of reliable and scalable production AI platforms.
• Provide technical leadership and establish reusable engineering standards across teams.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Architects, Engineers and subject-matter experts.
• Start: flexible
• Remote: onsite
• Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, IE