Lead AI Agent Platform Engineer (Production LLMs)

Digital Waffle; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Waffle is hiring a Software Engineer with strong AI knowledge to build the first dedicated agent platform inside a high-volume editorial and licensing operation. You will be the first dedicated hire on the agent platform, delivering production-ready LLM agents that run in real workflows rather than prototypes.

This hybrid Birmingham role requires 2–3 days on site per week. You will own design, build and integration of the tooling, orchestration, prompt management and observability,

Qualifications

• 3+ years of commercial software engineering experience.
• Strong TypeScript skills; PHP background is a plus.
• Experience shipping an LLM-powered feature to production.
• Able to discuss agent capabilities with non-technical colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and ship production LLM agents for editorial workflows.
• Build the shared platform underneath the agents including orchestration and APIs.
• Integrate agents with archive, submission portal and internal tools.
• Identify workflows to automate with editorial and commercial teams.
• Develop evaluation and guardrails for measurable output.
• Own cost and latency; manage model spend.
• Document the platform to avoid single-person dependency.
• Evaluate tooling options and make build-versus-buy calls.

Skills

TypeScript

LLM integration

API integration

Communication (non-technical)

Production deployments

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Codex

Vector databases

Job description

Digital Waffle is hiring a Software Engineer with strong AI knowledge to build the first dedicated agent platform inside a high-volume editorial and licensing operation. You will be the first dedicated hire on the agent platform, delivering production-ready LLM agents that run in real workflows rather than prototypes.

This hybrid Birmingham role requires 2–3 days on site per week. You will own design, build and integration of the tooling, orchestration, prompt management and observability,