Senior/Lead AI Engineer

What's in it for you

Salary: €93k - €110k

Ownership: Architect and lead enterprise-scale AI systems from concept to production.

Impact: Shape how AI is safely deployed across global, real-world use cases.

Leadership: Mentor engineers and define technical direction for AI delivery.

Tech: Work at the cutting edge of agentic AI, LLM systems and distributed architectures.

Environment: High-performing AI team solving complex, meaningful problems.

The Role

This is a Senior Lead AI Engineering role focused on building and scaling agentic AI systems and platforms.

You'll be responsible for designing complex AI architectures, implementing production-grade systems, and setting the standards for how AI is built, evaluated and deployed.

It's about delivering reliable, scalable AI that works in the real world.

What You'll Own

• Architect and deliver enterprise-scale AI agent platforms.
• Design multi-agent systems and orchestration frameworks.
• Set AI safety and guardrails standards, and be responsible for AI implementation.
• Set technical standards and best practices for AI engineering.
• Set standards for performance, scalability and reliability of AI systems.
• Mentor and lead the team.

What You'll Be Doing

• AI Architecture & Systems: Design and build distributed, fault-tolerant AI systems with high availability and scalability.
• Agentic AI & Orchestration: Develop multi-agent systems with complex workflows, decision making logic and orchestration layers.
• Prompt Engineering & Optimisation: Implement advanced prompting strategies, dynamic optimisation and context handling.
• AI Safety & Guardrails: Build robust guardrails, monitoring systems and evaluation frameworks to ensure responsible AI usage.
• Performance & Scalability: Optimize AI workloads with caching strategies, efficient data handling and system design.
• Monitoring & Reliability: Create logging, alerting and observability systems to ensure AI applications perform consistently in production.
• Leadership & Mentorship: Guide engineers, contribute to technical direction and raise the bar for engineering standards.
• Innovation: Stay close to emerging AI research, evaluate new models and experiment with novel approaches.

What You'll Need

• 8-10+ years in software engineering, with recent AI/ML experience.
• Expert-level Python skills.
• Deep experience with agentic AI frameworks (e.g. LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGPT or similar).
• Strong experience building and scaling production AI systems.
• Advanced knowledge of prompt engineering, few shot and in context learning.
• Experience with vector databases and similarity search.
• Strong understanding of AI safety, ethics and bias mitigation.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms and infrastructure as code.
• Proven experience leading teams and complex technical projects.
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Exposure to AI coding tools and agent based development workflows.
• Background in large scale AI platform development.
• Experience defining AI evaluation frameworks and benchmarks.

Location

Dublin (hybrid working model: 3 days per week in the office in Dublin City Centre).

Please note: You must have the right to live/work in Ireland.

Company

nineDots.io

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