Senior Agentic AI Engineer

Senior Agentic AI Engineer (Azure)

Birmingham (Hybrid)

£80,000 + Bonus + Benefits

Ready to move beyond co-pilots that suggest , and build agents that act?

This is a chance to design and deliver agentic AI systems on Azure that automate real business workflows through tool use, retrieval, and reasoning, with the reliability and observability of true production engineering.

In this position you’ll take ownership of designing and scaling end-to-end agentic solutions on Azure, combining LLMs, APIs, and orchestration frameworks to deliver measurable impact.

💡The Role:

• Design and implement multi-step agent systems that orchestrate tools, APIs, and retrieval.
• Productionise on Azure using AI Foundry / OpenAI, Azure ML, Functions, Event Grid / Service Bus, and Kubernetes.
• Build LLMOps pipelines for evaluation, monitoring, safety, and cost control.
• Define observability standards across prompts, tools, and data flows.
• Establish governance patterns, safety, privacy, and auditability.
• Stay hands-on with critical code paths while guiding architecture and best practice.

🧠Required Skills/Experience:

• Strong Python engineering background with production experience on Azure.
• Depth across Azure AI/OpenAI, Azure ML, and event-driven / containerised architectures.
• Experience building agents or copilots (Copilot Studio or custom frameworks).
• Clear judgment around latency, cost, and reliability trade-offs.
• Track record of mentoring and raising engineering standards.

Nice to have: Retrieval pipelines, RAG evaluation, Kubernetes, CI/CD for ML, and enterprise security exposure.