Senior Agentic AI Engineer - Production Systems (Contract, Hybrid)

Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions; East Hagbourne; Hybrid; GBP 129,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions is seeking a Senior Applied AI Engineer on a contract basis in Oxfordshire. The role focuses on ownership of agentic AI systems, ensuring production-grade reliability and performance across cloud and on‑prem environments.

You will design and deploy end‑to‑end AI pipelines, integrate LangGraph/LangChain/Haystack, and set engineering standards while contributing to a rapidly scaling tech team. Hybrid work requiring 2 days on site per week.

Qualifications

• Proven track record building multi-agent AI systems in production.
• Strong Python and production-grade code.
• Experience deploying AI/ML systems to production.
• Familiar with secure deployment and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Architecting and building multi‑agent AI systems end‑to‑end, combining frameworks such as LangGraph or Haystack where they add value with bespoke orchestration, state management and tool‑calling logic where a framework won’t cut it
• Writing production‑grade code with reliability, latency and graceful failure handling designed in from the start rather than bolted on afterwards
• Embedding LLMs and vision‑language models into live reasoning, search, summarisation and task‑execution workflows, backed by solid retrieval, memory and guardrail design
• Deploying across cloud and on‑premises environments, adapting your approach to each environment’s security and connectivity constraints
• Taking end‑to‑end ownership of production pipelines, from raw data ingestion through to live inference
• Building the monitoring, evaluation and guardrail tooling that shows how a system is actually performing in the field
• Setting technical standards for agentic AI within the team, establishing the patterns other engineers follow and leaving clear documentation behind

Skills

Python

Agentic AI

Software engineering

Docker

Git

AWS

LangGraph

LangChain

Haystack

Tools

LangGraph

LangChain

Haystack

Docker

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions is seeking a Senior Applied AI Engineer on a contract basis in Oxfordshire. The role focuses on ownership of agentic AI systems, ensuring production-grade reliability and performance across cloud and on‑prem environments.

You will design and deploy end‑to‑end AI pipelines, integrate LangGraph/LangChain/Haystack, and set engineering standards while contributing to a rapidly scaling tech team. Hybrid work requiring 2 days on site per week.