AI Agent Platform Engineer - Hybrid Birmingham

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

Job summary

Digital Waffle, a global media and content business, is hiring a Software Engineer to build the first dedicated agent platform inside a high-volume editorial and licensing operation. You'll own the end-to-end delivery of AI agents that automate repetitive tasks, working in a hybrid Birmingham setting.

This is a build role, not a research role, with production-ready agents, cross-functional collaboration across editorial, rights, archive and commercial teams, and a focus on cost, latency and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of commercial software engineering experience with TypeScript.
• Experience with Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex.
• Built and shipped at least one LLM-powered feature or agent into production.
• Knowledge of agent toolkits, including function calling, RAG, vector databases, and prompt engineering.
• Ability to explain agent capabilities to non-technical stakeholders and integrate with existing systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and ship production LLM agents against editorial, rights, archive and commercial workflows from scoping to deployment.
• Build the shared platform underneath the agents including orchestration, tool and API integrations, retrieval, prompt management, evaluation and observability.
• Integrate agents with existing systems including the archive, submission portal, clips platform and internal editorial tooling.
• Work with editorial, research and commercial teams to identify workflows worth automating and define what good enough to trust looks like for each.
• Build evaluation and guardrails so agent output quality is measurable with human review at the right points.
• Own cost and latency, keeping model spend proportional to the work being replaced.
• Document and hand over so the platform is not a single-person dependency.
• Keep an eye on tooling landscape and make pragmatic build-versus-buy calls.

Skills

TypeScript

PHP

LLM features

Claude/Cursor/Codex

Function calling

RAG

Vector databases

Prompt engineering

APIs & integration

Non-technical communication

Job description

Digital Waffle, a global media and content business, is hiring a Software Engineer to build the first dedicated agent platform inside a high-volume editorial and licensing operation. You'll own the end-to-end delivery of AI agents that automate repetitive tasks, working in a hybrid Birmingham setting.

This is a build role, not a research role, with production-ready agents, cross-functional collaboration across editorial, rights, archive and commercial teams, and a focus on cost, latency and