Senior AI Engineer: Production Agents & Orchestration

Vibehackers; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

None

Job summary

Vibehackers is seeking a Senior/Principal Applied AI Engineer to design, build, and operate production AI agents and orchestrations for a web-native trading platform. You will own implementation, observability, and security while partnering with Product and Platform teams to deliver measurable AI systems in production.

This hands-on role requires writing production code, establishing eval pipelines, and autonomous operation in a lean team across EU/UK time zones, with full-time employment via

Qualifications

• 8+ years of production software engineering with APIs and distributed systems.
• 2–3+ years building production LLM/agent systems against provider APIs.
• Fluency in Python and TypeScript; production code ownership.
• Strong observability, tracing, cost/latency controls, and security focus.
• Deep LLM-API fluency (Anthropic/OpenAI/open-weight) and governance awareness.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate production AI agents and orchestration layers.
• Ship internal AI automations and in-product AI capabilities for trading platforms.
• Implement evaluation, guardrails, and observability across deployments.
• Make buy-vs-build decisions and manage third-party integrations.
• Ensure security/data governance and SOC 2/ISO-aligned practices.
• Collaborate with Product and Core Platform Engineering teams.

Skills

APIs & Integrations

Python

TypeScript

LLM/Agent Systems

Observability

Security & Governance

Cloud & CI/CD

Autonomous Execution

Tools

Anthropic/OpenAI API

MCP

Docker

AWS or DigitalOcean

PostgreSQL

GitHub

LangChain / LlamaIndex (or similar)

CI/CD

Job description

Vibehackers is seeking a Senior/Principal Applied AI Engineer to design, build, and operate production AI agents and orchestrations for a web-native trading platform. You will own implementation, observability, and security while partnering with Product and Platform teams to deliver measurable AI systems in production.

This hands-on role requires writing production code, establishing eval pipelines, and autonomous operation in a lean team across EU/UK time zones, with full-time employment via