Senior AI Engineer

Brightwater Recruitment; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 111,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

Brightwater Recruitment is supporting a leading bank in Dublin for a Senior AI Engineer role in the Risk Tech team. The contractor will design and operate production-grade agentic AI systems, with a focus on reliability and scalable design in a highly regulated environment.

The role requires strong Python skills, experience with LangGraph or similar frameworks, and deep knowledge of RAG architectures and workflow orchestration. Hybrid in South Dublin, six-month rolling contract.

Qualifications

• Strong Python programming experience with enterprise-grade systems.
• Solid understanding of software engineering practices and design patterns.
• Excellent communication and ability to explain complex concepts clearly.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate agentic AI systems using Python.
• Hands-on development of agent workflows using LangGraph or equivalent orchestration frameworks.
• Design and implement context management for multi-step agent executions.
• Build and maintain RAG pipelines using structured and unstructured data sources.
• Integrate AI systems with internal platforms via RESTful and event-driven APIs.
• Define orchestration patterns for agents, tools and workflows (sync, async, human-in-the-loop).

Skills

Communication skills

Systems design

Software engineering

Problem solving

Tools

Python

LangGraph

RAG pipelines

RESTful APIs

Embeddings

Job description

6 Month (rolling) Contract, Hybrid, South Dublin

About the Company

My client is one of the largest and most successful banks in the world with offices in Dublin. They are a leader in the Fintech industry, working on cutting edge technology that's shaping the future of finance and investments. They have a number of exciting projects and new developments underway and they are looking to add to the growing teams in multiple divisions.

About the Role

My client is currently looking to hire a skilled contractor for a new Senior AI Engineer role in their Risk Tech Team. to join their Regulatory Reporting Technology team. The role focuses on building and operating production-grade agentic systems that support mission-critical workflows in a highly regulated environment. This is a hands-on engineering role with strong ownership of system design, reliability and delivery.

This role will be suitable for a contractor who has worked on complex and enterprise grade projects as a Software Engineer with highly advanced Python skills, who can apply this knowledge to building agentic systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build and operate agentic AI systems using Python
• Hands-on development of agent workflows using frameworks such as LangGraph or equivalent stateful orchestration approaches
• Design and implementation of context management strategies across multi-step and long-running agent executions
• Build and maintain RAG pipelines leveraging structured, semi-structured and unstructured data sources
• Integrate AI systems with existing internal platforms via RESTful and event-driven APIs
• Define and implement orchestration patterns for agents, tools and workflows (sync, async, human-in-the-loop)

Requirements:

• Minimum 7 years experience as a software engineer with strong Python skills
• Practical experience with LangGraph or other agentic workflow frameworks
• Deep understanding of context management and MCP-style tool protocols
• Experience with RAG architectures including embeddings, retrieval strategies etc.
• Strong understanding of workflow orchestration concepts (state, retries, idempotency)
• Strong systems design skills with an ability to reason about scalability and failure modes
• Very good communication skills with the ability to explain complex concepts simply

Good to have skills and experience:

• Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases and vector stores
• Experience with integrations using async messaging (pub-sub events and queues)

Remuneration:

Generous daily rates on offer with rates between 600-800 per day in line with experience.