Senior Agentic AI Engineer – Remote

Staffworx Limited; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Staffworx is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to design, build, and run production AI systems for our enterprise client base across retail, pharma, finance, FMCG, and more. This permanent, remote-first role involves hands-on engineering in a small, senior delivery team, turning loosely defined business problems into production-grade AI solutions from day one.

You’ll shape engineering standards, drive reusable patterns, and work with consultants to align with client requirements.

Qualifications

• 6 to 8 years in software or AI engineering or applied data engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with LLMs, embeddings, RAG, retrieval stacks and vector stores.
• Practical experience building multi-agent systems, agent orchestration or MCP-style tool patterns.
• Strong Python, with a track record of production-grade workflows.
• Experience with at least one cloud AI ecosystem: Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock or Anthropic.
• Working knowledge of semantic modelling, ontologies or knowledge graphs.
• Ability to turn open-ended business problems into working prototypes quickly.
• Comfortable in client-facing delivery, ideally within a consultancy.
• Domain experience in life sciences, pharma or healthcare, FMCG or retail, insurance, or banking and financial services.
• Deeper ontology or knowledge graph expertise.
• Experience with LLM evaluation and observability tooling.
• Strong engineers from non-AI backgrounds who have moved quickly into agentic AI and can show what they have built are very welcome.

Responsibilities

• Design and build LLM applications using modern orchestration patterns, prompt frameworks and evaluation loops.
• Build multi-agent systems covering planning, delegation, tool use, safety constraints and monitoring.
• Build retrieval pipelines: embeddings, vector stores, RAG and semantic search.
• Apply knowledge modelling (ontologies, knowledge graphs) to improve reasoning and data alignment.
• Integrate AI systems with enterprise platforms through APIs, tools and connectors.
• Set the technical direction on engagements and shape the architecture of client solutions.

Skills

LLM engineering

Python

Production-grade systems

Multi-agent systems

System design & architecture

APIs & tooling integration

Evaluation & safety

Prototyping & rapid iteration

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Google Vertex AI

AWS Bedrock

Anthropic

Job description

Staffworx is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to design, build, and run production AI systems for our enterprise client base across retail, pharma, finance, FMCG, and more. This permanent, remote-first role involves hands-on engineering in a small, senior delivery team, turning loosely defined business problems into production-grade AI solutions from day one.

You’ll shape engineering standards, drive reusable patterns, and work with consultants to align with client requirements.