AI Engineer

Sidetrade; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in Birmingham is seeking an AI Engineer to design and deploy internal autonomous agents that automate high-volume workflows across various business functions. This role requires expertise in building AI agents and translating business processes into structured behaviours. Candidates should be proficient in modern agent frameworks and Python, with experience in production environments. This greenfield opportunity allows for innovation and a significant impact on the company's operations.

Benefits

Multicultural environment

Equal opportunity workplace

Qualifications

• Minimum one year of hands-on experience building AI agents or agentic workflows in production.
• Ability to translate business processes into structured agent behaviours.
• Solid engineering fundamentals, ideally Python: APIs, data manipulation, error handling.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop autonomous agents using various frameworks.
• Partner with business teams to translate workflows into agent behaviours.
• Deploy and monitor agents in production environments.

Skills

Building AI agents

Agent frameworks proficiency

Workflow automation

Python programming

Tools

n8n

Beam AI

Langflow

Job description

Sidetrade (Euronext Growth: ALBFR.PA) is an AI company redefining how enterprises secure and accelerate cash flow. At the core of its applications is Aimie, Sidetrade’s agentic AI, trained on more than $7.7trillion in B2B transactions.

Sidetrade’s AI-Powered Order-to-Cash Platform transforms financial operations, helping leading enterprises increase revenue, protect profitability, and optimize working capital, positioned as a Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader since 2022.

Powered by a proprietary Order-to-Cash Data Lake and domain expertise, Aimie continuously learns and operates autonomously across the Order-to-Cash. This co-worker drives agility, informs decision-making, and ensures reliable execution. Aimie enables finance, sales, and customer-facing teams to unlock working capital and strengthen resilience. Sidetrade supports businesses in 85countries and employs 450people across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

For more information, visit us at www.sidetrade.com and follow us on LinkedIn at @Sidetrade.

We value passion over perfection—so if you’re eager to learn and bring the right energy, we want to hear from you. Be you. Grow with us.

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Mission

Sidetrade is launching a brand new, high-impact engineering initiative to build a company-wide platform for internal autonomous agents.
These agents will fundamentally change how every business function operates, from Customer Success, Finance, Product, Sales and Operations, by automating high-volume workflows through intelligent, end-to-end systems.

As an AI Engineer, you will design, architect and deploy these autonomous agents at scale. This is real production engineering: agents that plan, reason, orchestrate tools, call APIs, manage state and execute reliably inside a live enterprise environment.

You will be part of the founding team shaping this initiative from day one. You will define the architecture, select the frameworks, and establish the engineering patterns that will power Sidetrade’s internal agent platform for years. The agents you build will be used daily across the organisation and will deliver measurable impact immediately.

This is a rare greenfield opportunity. If you are excited by modern agent frameworks and want to build next generation agentic systems that change how a company operates you will thrive here.

You will operate at the intersection of AI engineering, workflow design, process intelligence and automation. This role gives you the runway to build something transformational and to work at the forefront of applied enterprise AI within a small, senior and high ownership team.

What you'll be doing

Build and deploy internal AI agents

• Design and develop autonomous agents using frameworks such as Kubiya, Agno, CrewAI, AutoGen, LangGraph, Rasa, Botpress or similar
• You will build agents that reason, call tools and APIs, work with internal data and complete real operational tasks end to end

Translate business workflows into agent behaviour

• Partner with business teams to understand how work is done and where automation creates the most value
• Turn these workflows into clear agent behaviours: when the agent should trigger, which data it needs, what actions it performs and what output it must deliver

Orchestrate agents using automation tools

• Use tools like n8n (or equivalents) to coordinate agent steps, route data, manage inputs and outputs, and connect agents to the right systems across the organisation

Integrate agents with enterprise systems

• Connect agents to the systems teams use every day; CRM, ticketing, analytics, product logs, finance tools, operational platforms and internal APIs
• Ensure smooth data flow, solid error handling and predictable execution

Run, monitor and iterate agents in production

• Deploy agents internally, observe how they’re used and iterate based on performance, reliability and user feedback
• Work closely with a dedicated PMO/Program Lead for prioritisation and delivery

Influence the technical direction of internal agents at Sidetrade

• Because this initiative is brand new, you will help shape how we design, document and scale internal agents across departments
• Stay ahead of the curve on agent frameworks, LLM orchestration patterns and emerging best practices

What You'll Need to be Successful

Core Skills (Must‑Hold)

• Minimum one year of hands‑on experience building AI agents or agentic workflows in production, not prototypes
• Proficiency with at least one modern agent framework: n8n / Beam AI / Langflow or an equivalent production‑grade agent stack
• Ability to translate real business processes into structured agent behaviours: triggers, tool use, reasoning loops, memory/state models
• Solid engineering fundamentals, ideally Python: APIs, data manipulation, error handling, testing
• Understanding of multi‑step reasoning, planning, tool orchestration, context propagation and state management
• Experience integrating agents with enterprise systems (APIs, CRMs, ERPs, ticketing, logs, internal services)
• Clear thinking around agent autonomy boundaries, failure modes, fallback logic, and safe deployment in business‑critical environments
• Experience running and maintaining agents in production environments; understanding key operability & monitoring requirements

Nice to Have

• Experience building agents in Pydantic / Agno / Crew or equivalent
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools: Airflow / Temporal / Zapier or equivalent
• Experience in a tech, AI or B2B SaaS environment
• Familiarity with containerised deployment, self‑hosted stacks or internal infrastructure
• Exposure to RAG pipelines, vector stores or embedding search

Equal Opportunity

At Sidetrade, we cultivate a multicultural environment that fuels innovation. With over 22 nationalities represented, we strongly value diversity, gender equality, inclusivity, and fairness. As an equal opportunity employer, we reject all forms of discrimination and harassment. Your unique contributions are celebrated, driving collective success in our inclusive workplace.

Agencies

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