Senior AI Engineer: Agentic AI Builder (Hybrid, 6-Month)

Principle HR; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 140,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Job summary

Principle HR in Dublin is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to lead the design and build of agentic AI systems for production at enterprise scale. This hands-on role focuses on setting engineering standards and patterns for multiple teams working with LLMs and AI agents.

The 6-month hybrid contract offers a competitive annual salary up to €155,000, pro rata, paid weekly. You will collaborate with product managers and engineers to balance cost, latency and model choice while shaping the future of

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building production agentic or multi-agent systems with LLMs.
• Strong software engineering background, including APIs, distributed systems and test-driven development.
• Experience with RAG, retrieval, and context or memory design.
• Practical approach to AI evaluation, observability and LLMOps.
• Experience with tool calling and interoperability standards such as MCP and A2A.
• The credibility to influence engineers across several teams.

Responsibilities

• Designing agent workflows: orchestration, tool use, retries, recovery and termination
• Building evaluation frameworks so the team knows whether an agent actually works
• Balancing cost, latency and model choice in production
• Creating reusable skills, plugins and patterns that other teams can adopt
• Working with product managers, architects and engineers on where AI fits next

Skills

Agentic AI

LLMs

API design

Distributed systems

Test-driven development

RAG retrieval

Memory design

LLMOps

Tool calling

MCP

A2A

Tools

GraphRAG

Job description

Principle HR in Dublin is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to lead the design and build of agentic AI systems for production at enterprise scale. This hands-on role focuses on setting engineering standards and patterns for multiple teams working with LLMs and AI agents.

The 6-month hybrid contract offers a competitive annual salary up to €155,000, pro rata, paid weekly. You will collaborate with product managers and engineers to balance cost, latency and model choice while shaping the future of