Manufacturing AI Engineer (GenAI & RAG)

HR Duo, Ltd.; Limerick; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Manufacturing Ireland (DMI) invites an AI Engineer to design, build and deploy practical AI solutions for manufacturing clients. The role emphasizes applied generative and agentic AI, including RAG, AI assistants, and multimodal workflows that securely connect with enterprise data.

Working with subject-matter experts and partners, you will take use cases from discovery to production, delivering production-ready AI services in a fast-paced, regulated industrial environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 2+ years of AI engineering or applied AI experience.
• Strong Python and software engineering practices.
• Experience with LLM APIs, embeddings, vector search, or agentic workflows.
• Experience integrating AI with databases, APIs, and operational systems.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure or GCP, Docker and CI/CD.
• Experience monitoring AI systems for quality, reliability and safety.
• Ability to translate operational needs into practical AI solutions with non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in manufacturing/industrial/IoT data sources.
• ML/CV with TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn; exposure to industrial domains.

Responsibilities

• Build production-ready AI applications including copilots and multimodal solutions.
• Design RAG solutions over manufacturing content such as SOPs, OCAPs, FMEAs, CAPAs and equipment manuals, producing grounded and traceable responses.
• Develop agentic workflows using tool calling, structured outputs and human approval steps where they add clear operational value.
• Develop APIs, services and reusable components that integrate AI models with enterprise and manufacturing systems, databases and workflows.
• Evaluate and select models, retrieval approaches and AI services based on quality, security, latency, cost, maintainability and user needs.
• Deploy and operate AI services in AWS, Azure or GCP using appropriate containerisation, version control and CI/CD practices.
• Build evaluation and observability into AI solutions, monitoring response quality, groundedness, safety, performance, cost and user feedback.
• Apply guardrails, access controls, auditability, data-protection practices and human oversight suitable for industrial and regulated settings.
• Work on use cases such as yield analytics, anomaly detection, predictive maintenance and computer vision, integrating model outputs into usable applications and workflows.
• Collaborate with subject-matter experts to frame use cases, understand structured and unstructured industrial data, define success measures and evaluate solutions against operational KPIs.
• Keeps current with the evolving GenAI/agentic landscape and evaluates emerging models, frameworks and tools for practical fit.

Skills

Python programming

LLM APIs

Stakeholder communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/DS/Engineering or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

CI/CD

Job description

Digital Manufacturing Ireland (DMI) invites an AI Engineer to design, build and deploy practical AI solutions for manufacturing clients. The role emphasizes applied generative and agentic AI, including RAG, AI assistants, and multimodal workflows that securely connect with enterprise data.

Working with subject-matter experts and partners, you will take use cases from discovery to production, delivering production-ready AI services in a fast-paced, regulated industrial environment.