PhysicsX

Senior AI / Agentic Engineer

PhysicsX
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5 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Set the strategic direction and lead implementation of the agentic platform’s critical infrastructure.
  • Architect and build production-grade agent workflows using durable execution, agent memory, and emerging standards.
  • Implement deep agent tracing, cost tracking, and lifecycle observability.
  • Deliver agent deployment capabilities covering authentication, discoverability, and resource requirements.
  • Architect secure sandboxed environments for agent execution.
  • Build evaluation tooling that converts expert trace annotations into reproducible evaluation datasets.
  • Implement identity, access, and governance patterns for agents operating in regulated enterprise environments.
  • Create a strong developer experience for product teams, Forward Deployed Engineers, and customers.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in platform engineering, backend engineering, or SRE.
  • Strong proficiency with Python or Go, Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform.
  • Production experience designing agentic architectures involving chains, tools, and memory.
  • Familiarity with agentic frameworks such as LangGraph and PydanticAI and with durable execution patterns.
  • Understanding of LLM lifecycle challenges including non-determinism, systematic evaluations, and token-based cost tracking.
  • Strong opinions and practical experience regarding durable execution, vector search, prompt management, and agent architecture.
  • Ability to design secure sandboxing and permissioning for LLMs that execute code and access data.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model combining Shoreditch office time with work-from-home days.
  • Equity options.
  • 10% employer pension contribution.
  • Free office lunches.
  • Enhanced parental leave, including three months’ full-pay paternity leave and six months’ full-pay maternity leave.
  • YellowNest nursery scheme.
  • 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays.
  • Private medical insurance with 100% employee cover.
  • Wellhub subscription.
  • Eye tests.
  • Personal development support.
  • Employee Assistance Programme.
  • Bike2Work scheme and season ticket loan.
  • Octopus EV salary sacrifice scheme.
PhysicsX

About PhysicsX

201-500 employees

PhysicsX builds an AI-driven simulation software stack that enables high-fidelity, multi-physics modeling and optimization for engineering and manufacturing teams. The company sells software and delivery services to enterprises in aerospace and defense, automotive, semiconductors, materials, and energy. It is privately held and headquartered in London, with offices in London and New York.

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