Autonomous AI Infrastructure Engineer (Hybrid)

Morson Edge (Technology); Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Agentic Infrastructure in Manchester is seeking an AI Harness Engineer to take autonomous AI agent infrastructure from prototype to production. You will build secure harnesses around AI models, runtimes, guardrails and tooling to run at enterprise scale.

Key focus areas include sandboxed environments for agent code execution, prompt-injection protection, tool orchestration between LLMs and external systems, verification loops and scalable, secure runtime architectures.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering or AI infrastructure background.
• Experience with Docker / Kubernetes and WASM or micro-VMs.
• Solid API integration and systems engineering experience.
• Good understanding of LLMs / generative AI / agentic systems.
• Security-first mindset around prompt injection and runtime security.

Responsibilities

• Building secure, sandboxed environments for AI agents to execute code
• Designing guardrails around agent behaviour, including input/output filtering and prompt injection protection
• Building tool orchestration and validation layers between LLMs and external systems
• Developing verification and self-correction loops around runtime and tool failures
• Designing human-in-the-loop checkpoints for higher-risk autonomous actions
• Making sure agent infrastructure is scalable, resilient and secure

Skills

Docker

Kubernetes

WASM

Micro-VMs

APIs

LLMs

Generative AI

Agentic systems

Security

Reliability

Job description

Agentic Infrastructure in Manchester is seeking an AI Harness Engineer to take autonomous AI agent infrastructure from prototype to production. You will build secure harnesses around AI models, runtimes, guardrails and tooling to run at enterprise scale.

Key focus areas include sandboxed environments for agent code execution, prompt-injection protection, tool orchestration between LLMs and external systems, verification loops and scalable, secure runtime architectures.