Applied AI Engineer - Build Intelligent Acquisition Agents

iwoca; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Medical insurance

Private GP service

Sabbatical after four years

Employee equity

Pension contributions

Company retreats

Learning budget

Job summary

iwoca is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to design and build agents that drive direct acquisition workflows. You will own end-to-end development, from system design to integration with predictive models and data pipelines, and work with cross-functional teams to ensure robust, compliant automation.

The role emphasizes building persistent, auditable architectures, leveraging AI coding tools, and delivering measurable business impact while collaborating with Product and Compliance.

Qualifications

• System ownership: owned a complex system end to end, from design to running it in production.
• Design judgement: explained trade-offs and proposed better alternatives.
• Pace: delivered live features quickly in unfamiliar areas.
• Agent engineering: built systems where LLMs take actions beyond chat or summaries.
• Controls: designed permissions, data access rules and audit trails.
• Constructive challenge: collaborates well with commercial/product peers and offers improvements.
• AI leverage: used AI coding tools to deliver engineering work and reviewed their outputs.
• Communication: writes and speaks clearly and adapts technical detail to audience.

Responsibilities

• Architecture: design agents’ run-time environment, memory persistence, task management, access, and auditability.
• Guardrails: define where agent can reason and where rules apply, including compliance checks.
• Delivery: own end-to-end agent deployment, integrate with predictive models, data pipelines and tools.
• Measurement: monitor agent usage, failure modes, costs, and business value.

Skills

System ownership

Design judgement

Pace

Agent engineering

Controls

Constructive challenge

AI coding tools

Communication

Job description

iwoca is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to design and build agents that drive direct acquisition workflows. You will own end-to-end development, from system design to integration with predictive models and data pipelines, and work with cross-functional teams to ensure robust, compliant automation.

The role emphasizes building persistent, auditable architectures, leveraging AI coding tools, and delivering measurable business impact while collaborating with Product and Compliance.