AI Jr. Engineer - Agentic Systems

Lenovo; Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global technology company is seeking a Software Engineer for their AI Technology Center in the UK. The role involves designing AI agents, integrating systems, and developing orchestration services. Candidates should have over 2 years of experience in ML engineering, strong Python skills, and familiarity with agentic frameworks. This position offers a hybrid work model and other benefits such as performance-based rewards and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Career advancement opportunities

Access to training programs

Performance-based rewards

Hybrid work model

Electric car salary sacrifice scheme

Life insurance

Qualifications

• 2+ years in software engineering or related roles with ML components.
• Experience shipping systems that rely on LLMs.
• Strong understanding of system design basics including latency and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement agents that execute tasks and iterate based on results.
• Develop orchestration services that coordinate multiple models and tools.
• Integrate agents with internal and external systems while handling authentication.

Skills

Python programming

Machine Learning

System design

Troubleshooting

Agentic frameworks

Tools

Docker

REST

gRPC

LangChain

Job description

Description and Requirements

This role is based at Imperial College London . Applicants must be located in London, as the position requires on-site work at least three days per week under our 3 : 2 hybrid policy.

The Lenovo AI Technology Center (LATC)—Lenovo’s global AI Center of Excellence is driving our transformation into an AI-first organization. We are assembling a world-class team of researchers, engineers, and innovators to position Lenovo and its customers at the forefront of the generational shift toward AI. Lenovo is one of the world’s leading computing companies, delivering products across the entire technology spectrum, spanning wearables, smartphones (Motorola), laptops (ThinkPad, Yoga), PCs, workstations, servers, and services / solutions. This unmatched breadth gives us a unique canvas for AI innovation, including the ability to rapidly deploy cutting-edge foundation models and to enable flexible, hybrid‑cloud, and agentic computing across our full product portfolio. To this end, we are building the next wave of AI core technologies and platforms that leverage and evolve with the fast‑moving AI ecosystem, including novel model and agentic orchestration & collaboration across mobile, edge, and cloud resources. This space is evolving fast and so are we. If you’re ready to shape AI at a truly global scale, with products that touch every corner of life and work, there’s no better time to join us.

Responsibilities

Design and implement agents

Build agents that can plan tasks, call tools / APIs, decompose problems, and iterate based on feedback and intermediate results.

Orchestration & routing

Develop orchestration services that coordinate multiple models, agents, and tools planners, executors, critics, evaluators), including policy logic and routing decisions.

Tooling & integration

Integrate agents with internal and external tools : APIs, databases, retrieval systems, transactional systems, and product features. Handle auth, error cases, and safety constraints.

Context & state handling for agents

Work closely with context management to maintain agent state across steps and sessions, including working memory, scratchpads, and long‑running workflows.

Reliability, safety & guardrails

Implement checks, constraints, and fallback policies so agents behave predictably and safely, especially when they can take real‑world actions.

Observability & debugging

Build tracing, logging, dashboards, and replay tools to understand agent behavior, diagnose failures, and iterate on policies and prompts.

Experimentation & iteration

Design experiments to compare agent architectures, policies, and tool sets; iterate based on offline and online metrics and qualitative user feedback.

Qualifications

2+ years in software engineering, ML engineering, or applied AI roles, including experience shipping systems that rely on LLMs or other ML components.

Strong programming skills in Python and experience building backend services (REST / gRPC, microservices, or similar).

Solid understanding of system design basics : latency, throughput, reliability, and failure modes.

Hands‑on experience working with LLM‑based applications chatbots, copilots, automation tools, or internal agent‑like systems).

Familiarity with at least one agentic or orchestration framework LangChain, Autogen, CrewAI, custom in‑house frameworks), or evidence of having built similar functionality yourself.

Ability to reason about complex multi‑step flows, failure modes, and edge cases.

Comfortable diagnosing issues that span prompts, tools, infra, and product logic.

Bonus Points

Experience designing multi‑agent or multi‑stage workflows planner / solver / critic architectures).

Background integrating LLMs with transactional systems, internal tools, or external APIs.

Exposure to safety / guardrail systems : policy engines, content filters, or constrained tool execution.

Familiarity with cloud platforms, containers (Docker), and observability tools (metrics, tracing, logging).

What we offer

• Opportunities for career advancement and personal development
• Access to a diverse range of training programs
• Performance‑based rewards that celebrate your achievements
• Flexibility with a hybrid work model (3 : 2) that blends home and office life
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
• Life insurance