Autonomous AI Engineer - Energy Platform

Kraken; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is building AI-powered customer service for the energy sector, and you’ll join the Autonomous Agents team to deliver scalable, client-ready solutions. You’ll own end-to-end features from core integration work to client customization, ensuring safety, observability and reliable handoffs.

This is a hands-on engineering role with opportunities to grow alongside senior engineers and product leads. You’ll contribute to reusable product components, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and

Qualifications

• Shipped and supported production software with testing and code reviews.
• Proficient in Python and TypeScript.
• Able to understand problems before coding.
• Interest in LLMs, autonomous agents and MCP.
• Able to communicate with non-engineers and translate processes.
• Reliable, organized with good documentation.
• Willing to learn and adapt in a fast-changing field.

Responsibilities

• Connect customer queries into clear technical plans.
• Build integrations between Kraken and MCP with Python/TypeScript.
• Create reusable, client-agnostic components.
• Incorporate authentication, permissions, validation and handoffs.
• Ship features behind toggles with testing and docs.
• Collaborate with clients and teammates and document decisions.
• Operate and monitor services with dashboards and runbooks.

Skills

Software engineering

Python

TypeScript

Problem solving

AI curiosity

Customer awareness

Delivery reliability

Learning agility

Tools

Django

MCP

Datadog

Sentry

Job description

Kraken is building AI-powered customer service for the energy sector, and you’ll join the Autonomous Agents team to deliver scalable, client-ready solutions. You’ll own end-to-end features from core integration work to client customization, ensuring safety, observability and reliable handoffs.

This is a hands-on engineering role with opportunities to grow alongside senior engineers and product leads. You’ll contribute to reusable product components, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and