Remote AI Automation Engineer — Build Production Workflows

Blacksmith Agency LLC; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 1,482,000 - 2,141,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is building an AI automation layer into every part of how we work. As AI Automation Engineer at Blacksmith, you own and ship our internal automation roadmap. This is a builder role, not a research role.

You will not be training models, you will be building production systems on top of them. You work directly with engineering and delivery leadership to take a documented roadmap of automation workflows and turn them into shipped, working systems.

Qualifications

• 2+ years building production software with Python or Node.js.
• Hands-on experience with LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen or similar agent frameworks.
• Proven API integration work with OpenAI or Anthropic (function calling, tool use, streaming).
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, webhooks and basic cloud deployment.
• English sufficient for async written work with a US-based team.

Responsibilities

• You work directly with engineering and delivery leadership to take a documented roadmap of automation workflows and turn them into shipped, working systems.
• This role is for someone who has already built things with LLMs and can show it.
• You will not be training models, you will be building production systems on top of them.

Skills

Python

Node.js

REST APIs

Webhooks

Cloud deployment

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

CrewAI

AutoGen

OpenAI API

Anthropic API

Job description

Blacksmith Agency is building an AI automation layer into every part of how we work. As AI Automation Engineer at Blacksmith, you own and ship our internal automation roadmap. This is a builder role, not a research role.

You will not be training models, you will be building production systems on top of them. You work directly with engineering and delivery leadership to take a documented roadmap of automation workflows and turn them into shipped, working systems.