AI Agent Engineer for Enterprise Automation

Embelo; Wes-Kaap; Hybrid; ZAR 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Embelo is hiring an AI Engineer for a major transformation programme in a hybrid Cape Town setting. You will design, build and deploy AI agents and agentic workflows to solve real business problems, integrating with Google Cloud, Gemini and other platforms.

The role emphasizes delivering production-ready AI solutions and collaborating with stakeholders across tech and business teams. You will work with consultants and data engineers to translate complex processes into practical AI automation,

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building AI agents and agentic workflows.
• Strong programming skills, particularly Python.
• Experience with large language models such as Gemini, Claude, OpenAI models or equivalent.
• Experience using LLM APIs and building applications around them.
• Prompt engineering and designing reliable structured interactions with LLMs.
• Tool calling / function calling and enabling agents to interact with external systems.
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), embeddings and vector search.
• API development and integration with enterprise applications and data sources.
• Designing multi-step AI workflows and orchestrating interactions between models, tools and systems.
• Understanding of AI evaluation, observability, guardrails and responsible AI principles.
• Experience moving AI solutions into production environments.
• Good software engineering practices: version control, testing and deployment.
• Confidence working with business stakeholders to translate problems into technical solutions.
• Curiosity about the evolving generative AI landscape.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and deploy AI agents and agentic workflows to solve real business problems.
• Translate redesigned business processes into practical AI and automation solutions.
• Build multi-step AI workflows that can reason, retrieve information, interact with systems and complete defined business tasks.
• Develop prototypes quickly and evolve successful concepts into production-ready solutions.
• Work with Google Cloud, Gemini and associated AI technologies within the client environment.
• Integrate generative AI solutions with enterprise applications, APIs, data sources and existing workflows.
• Explore opportunities to use Microsoft Copilot and the wider Microsoft ecosystem alongside other AI platforms.
• Implement techniques such as prompt engineering, structured outputs, tool/function calling, retrieval-augmented generation and agent orchestration.
• Evaluate the effectiveness, reliability and quality of AI-generated outputs and agent behaviour.
• Build guardrails, monitoring and human-in-the-loop controls around AI solutions.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand processes and transformation opportunities.
• Work with consultants, product specialists, data engineers and other teams to deliver ideas from concept to delivery.
• Experiment with emerging AI tools and frameworks to create genuine business value.
• Explain technical approaches, limitations and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

AI agents

Python

LLMs

Prompt engineering

Tool calling

RAG

Embeddings

API development

Workflow orchestration

Observability

Guardrails

Production deployment

Version control

Testing

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Embelo is hiring an AI Engineer for a major transformation programme in a hybrid Cape Town setting. You will design, build and deploy AI agents and agentic workflows to solve real business problems, integrating with Google Cloud, Gemini and other platforms.

The role emphasizes delivering production-ready AI solutions and collaborating with stakeholders across tech and business teams. You will work with consultants and data engineers to translate complex processes into practical AI automation,