AI Agent Platform Engineer — Production LLMs

Digital Waffle; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Waffle, a global media and content business, seeks a Software Engineer with strong AI knowledge to build the first dedicated agent platform inside a high-volume editorial and licensing operation.

As the Agentic Engineer, you will design, build and ship production LLM agents, integrate them with existing systems, and own cost and latency while shaping what is 'good enough to trust' in production workflows.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of commercial software engineering experience with TypeScript.
• Experience with AI agents or LLM-powered features in production.
• Ability to discuss agent capabilities with non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong API integration and system plumbing skills.
• Comfort with evaluating tool/framework trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and ship production LLM agents against real editorial, rights, archive and commercial workflows, from scoping through to deployment and monitoring.
• 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 directly with editorial, research and commercial teams to identify the workflows worth automating and define what 'good enough to trust' looks like for each.
• Build evaluation and guardrails so agent output quality is measurable rather than anecdotal, with human review at the right points.
• Own cost and latency, keeping model spend proportionate to the work being replaced.
• Document and hand over so the platform is not a single-person dependency.
• Keep an eye on the tooling landscape and make pragmatic build-versus-buy calls.

Skills

TypeScript

AI/LLM experience

Production deployment

API integration

PHP background

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Codex

Job description

Digital Waffle, a global media and content business, seeks a Software Engineer with strong AI knowledge to build the first dedicated agent platform inside a high-volume editorial and licensing operation.

As the Agentic Engineer, you will design, build and ship production LLM agents, integrate them with existing systems, and own cost and latency while shaping what is 'good enough to trust' in production workflows.