Lead Python AI Engineer - Agentic Systems (Hybrid Dublin)

Stelfox Tech Recruitment; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Stelfox Tech Recruitment partners with a leading organization in Dublin to hire a Senior Python AI Engineer. The role focuses on designing and delivering production-grade agentic systems in a highly regulated, mission-critical environment.

This hands-on position offers ownership across architecture, scalability, and end-to-end delivery, with a hybrid work setup in Dublin for a 6-month rolling contract and strong long-term potential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in software engineering with strong Python expertise.
• Hands-on experience with LangGraph or similar agentic frameworks.
• Strong understanding of context management and MCP-style protocols.
• Proven experience with RAG architectures, embeddings, and retrieval strategies.
• Solid grasp of distributed workflows (state, retries, idempotency).
• Strong systems design skills with a focus on scalability and resilience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate agentic AI systems using Python.
• Develop agent workflows using LangGraph or similar orchestration frameworks.
• Implement robust context management strategies across multi-step executions.
• Build and optimise RAG pipelines across structured and unstructured data sources.
• Integrate AI solutions with internal platforms via REST APIs and event-driven systems.
• Define and implement orchestration patterns (sync, async, human-in-the-loop).

Skills

Python

LangGraph

Agentic frameworks

Context management

RAG architectures

Embeddings & retrieval

Distributed workflows

Systems design

Tools

REST APIs

Event-driven architectures

NoSQL

Relational databases

Vector stores

Job description

Stelfox Tech Recruitment partners with a leading organization in Dublin to hire a Senior Python AI Engineer. The role focuses on designing and delivering production-grade agentic systems in a highly regulated, mission-critical environment.

This hands-on position offers ownership across architecture, scalability, and end-to-end delivery, with a hybrid work setup in Dublin for a 6-month rolling contract and strong long-term potential.