Senior AI Engineer – Agentic Systems | Contract | Dublin (Hybrid)
Location: Dublin (Hybrid – 3 days onsite, non-negotiable)
Contract: 6-month rolling (long-term potential)
Stelfox is partnering with a leading organisation to hire a Senior AI Engineer to design and deliver production‑grade agentic systems within a highly regulated, mission‑critical environment.
This is a hands‑on engineering role with strong ownership across architecture, system reliability, and end‑to‑end delivery.
Roles and Responsibilities
Design, build and operate agentic AI systems using Python
Hands‑on development of agent workflows using frameworks such as LangGraph or equivalent stateful orchestration approaches
Design and implementation of context management strategies across multi‑step and long‑running agent executions
Build and maintain RAG pipelines leveraging structured, semi‑structured and unstructured data sources
Integrate AI systems with existing internal platforms via RESTful and event‑driven APIs
Define and implement orchestration patterns for agents, tools and workflows (sync, async, human‑in‑the‑loop)
Skills and experience
Minimum 5 years experience as a software engineer with strong Python skills
Practical experience with LangGraph or other agentic workflow frameworks
Deep understanding of context management and MCP‑style tool protocols
Experience with RAG architectures including embeddings, retrieval strategies etc.
Strong understanding of workflow orchestration concepts (state, retries, idempotency)
Strong systems design skills with an ability to reason about scalability and failure modes
Very good communication skills with the ability to explain complex concepts simply
Good to have skills and experience
Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases and vector stores
Experience with integrations using async messaging (pub‑sub events and queues)
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