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AI Platform Engineer, Agentic Interfaces

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1 month ago
Staines-upon-Thames, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and build MCP servers over enterprise business objects, including capability modeling, discoverability, versioning, and backward compatibility.
  • Build safe agent write paths for changing customer operational data.
  • Develop ontology, knowledge graph, semantic, skills, routing, and context layers for enterprise AI agents.
  • Build a control plane covering authentication, entitlements, agent identity, telemetry, metering, injection resistance, and deny-by-default controls.
  • Create evaluation harnesses that certify agent behavior against the real product and improve systems based on measured results.
  • Prototype emerging technologies, product opportunities, and customer scenarios.
  • Establish engineering practices for evaluation, testing, observability, monitoring, governance, security, and operational excellence.
  • Contribute to technical design, review engineering work, support colleagues, and represent the work in customer engagements, demonstrations, industry events, and partner collaborations.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering background with production experience building and operating enterprise systems.
  • Deep experience with distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, API and schema design, event-driven systems, security, observability, and CI/CD.
  • Strong programming ability in a modern backend language.
  • Hands-on experience designing, building, and shipping production AI applications using LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows, orchestration frameworks, tool use, function calling, and autonomous or multi-agent architectures.
  • Experience with AI evaluation practices including experimentation, benchmarking, prompt engineering, tracing, quality measurement, and agent tuning.
  • Ability to integrate enterprise applications, business processes, workflows, and data platforms.
  • Depth in tool-surface and agent-runtime engineering, knowledge graphs and semantic modeling, or enterprise platform engineering.
  • Experience with MCP servers, tool ecosystems, capability modeling, ontology design, context engineering, embeddings, vector databases, retrieval, search, memory architectures, grounding, or metadata-driven enterprise systems.
  • Experience with Oracle PL/SQL and OData is desirable for enterprise platform work.
  • Experience with agent frameworks such as Semantic Kernel, Microsoft Agent Framework, LangGraph, AutoGen, PydanticAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, or CrewAI is desirable.
  • Experience building reusable AI platforms, MCP ecosystems, or shared engineering capabilities across products and teams is desirable.
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, GCP, or another hyperscale cloud platform is desirable.
  • Experience with reverse engineering, interpreter work, token-efficient agent design, relevant enterprise software domains, open source, technical communities, conferences, publications, or standards is desirable.

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid work opportunities and workplace arrangements designed to support diverse needs.
  • Opportunity to work on production AI systems combining LLMs, agentic AI, and cloud-native technologies for enterprise-scale applications.
  • Inclusive, global work environment with opportunities for customer, partner, industry, and technical community engagement.
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