AI & Automation Engineer: Scale Smart Workflows with n8n

Blue Light Card Ltd; Leicester Forest East; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Bonus scheme

Hybrid working

Private medical insurance

Pension scheme

Healthcare cash-back

Gym access at HQ

EV charging

On-site parking

Job summary

Blue Light Card Ltd is seeking an AI and Automation Engineer to map workflows, design automations in n8n, and build AI agents that operate across business systems. You’ll work with REST APIs, LLM APIs and AI-native tools to deliver reliable, scalable automation at scale.

You will own high-impact automation initiatives, partner with multiple teams, and apply prompt/context engineering, guardrails and monitoring to ensure safe, effective outcomes.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in automation engineering or AI engineering, operational tech roles, or solutions engineering.
• Hands-on experience with n8n, Make or Zapier, and willingness to move to n8n.
• Proficiency with REST APIs, OAuth and webhooks; coding in JavaScript, TypeScript or Python.
• Experience running LLM APIs in production and building AI agents/agentic workflows with prompt engineering.
• Understanding of testing safeguards for AI outputs, including evals and guardrails.
• Strong documentation and problem-solving skills with ability to translate technical concepts for non-tech colleagues.
• Experience with Claude Code, subagents, MCP servers, RAG pipelines, vector databases, or related AI tooling is a bonus.
• Certifications are welcome but equivalent experience counts as much.

Responsibilities

• Map and document workflows across operational teams to identify automations with the greatest impact.
• Design, build, test and deploy automations mainly in n8n with scripts in JS/TS/Python where needed.
• Create AI agents and agentic workflows that perform multi-step tasks end-to-end.
• Integrate APIs, databases, webhooks and internal systems for scalable data flows.
• Embed AI models from providers such as Anthropic and OpenAI into workflows with prompt/context engineering.
• Ground agents in business knowledge and design multi-agent systems with sensible routing and human-in-the-loop checks.

Skills

Automation engineering

AI engineering

Technical operations

Solutions engineering

REST APIs

JavaScript

TypeScript

Python

Documentation

Problem-solving

Tools

n8n

Make

Zapier

Claude Code

Cursor

Grafana

Langfuse

LangSmith

MCP servers

Vector databases

Job description

Blue Light Card Ltd is seeking an AI and Automation Engineer to map workflows, design automations in n8n, and build AI agents that operate across business systems. You’ll work with REST APIs, LLM APIs and AI-native tools to deliver reliable, scalable automation at scale.

You will own high-impact automation initiatives, partner with multiple teams, and apply prompt/context engineering, guardrails and monitoring to ensure safe, effective outcomes.