Lead AI Engineer — Production Agentic Systems

Accenture; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an AI Engineer (Agentic/Applied) to design, build and deploy production-grade agentic AI systems across the enterprise tech stack. You will work directly with client engineering teams, lead technical design sessions, and build reusable patterns that scale beyond individual engagements.

This role emphasizes delivering production-ready solutions, owning eval harnesses, and managing performance, safety, and cost across OpenAI, Anthropic, Vertex AI, and open-source models.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in production environments.
• Minimum 1 year of hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production environments.
• Demonstrated experience with agentic orchestration frameworks at production depth.
• Direct experience calling LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Vertex AI) in production code.
• RAG pipeline ownership including embeddings, chunking, vector databases, and context engineering.
• LLMOps fundamentals: eval harness design, prompt versioning, and production observability.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production-grade agentic systems end-to-end: multi-agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, policy-based routing, tool invocation, memory management, and lifecycle observability.
• Build and own RAG pipelines: embeddings, chunking strategy, vector search, context window engineering.
• Integrate and abstract across multiple LLM providers with fallback routing, token, cost, and latency management.
• Implement LLMOps in production: eval harnesses with real quality metrics, prompt versioning, observability tooling.
• Embed with client engineering teams to design, prototype, and deploy agentic solutions: workshops and architecture walkthroughs.
• Build reusable patterns, accelerators, and playbooks that scale beyond the client engagement.

Skills

Python

Java

Kubernetes

Docker

LLMOps

Tools

LangGraph

CrewAI

AutoGen

LangSmith

OpenAI API

Anthropic API

Vertex AI

Job description

Accenture is seeking an AI Engineer (Agentic/Applied) to design, build and deploy production-grade agentic AI systems across the enterprise tech stack. You will work directly with client engineering teams, lead technical design sessions, and build reusable patterns that scale beyond individual engagements.

This role emphasizes delivering production-ready solutions, owning eval harnesses, and managing performance, safety, and cost across OpenAI, Anthropic, Vertex AI, and open-source models.