Senior AI Engineer — Hybrid Dublin (Contract)

Stelfox Tech Recruitment; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 83,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Stelfox is assisting a Dublin-based client on a Senior AI Software Engineer contract. The role focuses on building production-ready AI applications in a regulated, enterprise environment with hybrid onsite work in Dublin.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of Python development experience and hands-on work with agentic AI frameworks, RAG implementations, vector databases, and scalable architectures.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong Python development skills.
• Hands-on experience building AI applications using LangGraph or similar agentic AI frameworks.
• Experience with LLM-powered architectures, context management, and RAG approaches.
• Experience with vector databases and retrieval strategies.
• Proficient in RESTful API design and integration.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, state management, idempotency and fault tolerance.
• Experience with cloud-native environments and containerised deployments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and support scalable AI-powered applications using Python.
• Develop agentic workflows using LangGraph or similar frameworks.
• Implement context management for complex AI processes.
• Build and optimise RAG solutions across data sources.
• Integrate AI services with enterprise platforms via APIs and events.
• Design resilient workflows with async processing and retries.
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to deliver production-grade AI solutions.
• Drive scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.

Skills

Python

LangGraph

LLM architectures

RAG

Embeddings

REST APIs

Distributed systems

Async processing

Cloud-native

Containerization

Tools

LangGraph

REST APIs

Docker/Kubernetes

Vector databases

Event-driven architectures

Job description

Stelfox is assisting a Dublin-based client on a Senior AI Software Engineer contract. The role focuses on building production-ready AI applications in a regulated, enterprise environment with hybrid onsite work in Dublin.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of Python development experience and hands-on work with agentic AI frameworks, RAG implementations, vector databases, and scalable architectures.