Agentic Engineer: Build Production AI Agents for Editorial

Digital Waffle; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 33,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Waffle is seeking an Agentic Engineer to design and ship production LLM agents for a high-volume editorial workflow. You will own a greenfield agent platform, build orchestration, integrations and guardrails, and partner with editorial and commercial teams to automate repetitive tasks.

We expect 3+ years of commercial software engineering with TypeScript and PHP, plus hands-on experience with Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and vector databases. Hybrid role in Birmingham.

Qualifications

• 3+ years commercial software engineering experience with TypeScript and PHP background.
• Built and shipped at least one LLM-powered feature or agent into production.
• Experience integrating agents with existing systems and APIs.
• Practical knowledge of agent toolkits: function calling, RAG, vector databases, structured output, prompts.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and ship production LLM agents across workflows from scoping through to deployment.
• Build the shared platform underneath the agents including orchestration, tool integrations, retrieval, prompt management and observability.
• Integrate agents with existing systems including archive, submission portal, clips platform and editorial tooling.
• Collaborate with editorial, research and commercial teams to identify automatable workflows and define trust criteria.
• Develop evaluation and guardrails so agent output is measurable with human review points.
• Own cost and latency, keeping model spend proportionate to work replaced.
• Document and hand over so the platform is not a single-person dependency.
• Keep an eye on tooling and make build-versus-buy decisions.

Skills

TypeScript

PHP

LLM / AI

API integration

Communication

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Codex

Vector databases

Agent frameworks/SDKs

Prompt engineering

Job description

Digital Waffle is seeking an Agentic Engineer to design and ship production LLM agents for a high-volume editorial workflow. You will own a greenfield agent platform, build orchestration, integrations and guardrails, and partner with editorial and commercial teams to automate repetitive tasks.

We expect 3+ years of commercial software engineering with TypeScript and PHP, plus hands-on experience with Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and vector databases. Hybrid role in Birmingham.