Agentic AI Engineer: Enterprise Automation & Flows

Agile Bridge; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Agile Bridge is seeking an Agentic AI Engineer to connect foundation models, enterprise knowledge and software tools into secure AI solutions. You will design flows, agents, skills and evaluations that support real business processes rather than demos.

You will collaborate with AI Engineers, Data Scientists and Software Engineers on integration, production operations and model optimisation. A Bachelor’s degree and 3–5 years of experience are typical requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Data Engineering, Data Science, AI or related field.
• Typically 3–5 years’ relevant experience in software or AI engineering, including production software delivery.
• Strong Python capability and evidence of clean, testable engineering practices.
• Practical experience integrating foundation-model capabilities into applications, services or workflows.
• Experience with APIs, enterprise data integration and cloud-based delivery practices.
• Judgement to balance usefulness and autonomy with reliability, security, privacy, latency and cost.

Responsibilities

• Translate business processes into clear flows, agent responsibilities, skills, decision points and measurable success criteria.
• Design architectures that integrate foundation models, enterprise applications, APIs, data sources and human controls.
• Develop and test flows, agents, skills, services and APIs using strong software-engineering practices.
• Build retrieval, context, memory and state-management patterns.
• Create evaluation datasets and automated checks for task completion, grounding, tool use, safety, latency and cost.
• Deploy and monitor AI services, using traces and operational evidence to improve prompts, retrieval, context and orchestration.
• Implement guardrails, access controls, privacy protections and secure tool-use patterns.
• Communicate behaviour, trade-offs, limitations and operational requirements to customers and engineering teams.
• Research emerging models and frameworks, adopting them only where evaluation demonstrates meaningful value.

Skills

Python programming

AI engineering

System design

Security and governance

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/IT or related

Tools

Docker

REST APIs

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Job description

Agile Bridge is seeking an Agentic AI Engineer to connect foundation models, enterprise knowledge and software tools into secure AI solutions. You will design flows, agents, skills and evaluations that support real business processes rather than demos.

You will collaborate with AI Engineers, Data Scientists and Software Engineers on integration, production operations and model optimisation. A Bachelor’s degree and 3–5 years of experience are typical requirements.