Overview
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
You’ll sit at the centre of AI engineering strategy, leading the design and delivery of advanced AI platforms that go beyond prototypes and into real production systems.
This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll combine technical expertise with mentoring and establishing best-practice. It’s as green-field as it gets within a large organisation!
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.
This isn’t experimentation in isolation — it’s about delivering reliable, scalable AI that works in the real world.
What You’ll Own:
You will architecture and deliver enterprise-scale AI agent platformsYou’ll design multi-agent systems and orchestration frameworksYou will set AI safety and guardrails standards and be responsible for AI implementationYou’ll set technical standards and best practices for AI engineeringYou’ll set standards for performance, scalability and reliability of AI systemsYou’ll 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
Optimise 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 experienceExpert-level Python skillsDeep experience with agentic AI frameworks (e.g. LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGPT or similar)Strong experience building and scaling production AI systemsAdvanced knowledge of prompt engineering, few-shot and in-context learningExperience with vector databases and similarity searchStrong understanding of AI safety, ethics and bias mitigationExperience with Docker, Kubernetes and distributed systemsExperience with cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-codeProven experience leading teams and complex technical projectsStrong 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 workflowsBackground in large-scale AI platform developmentExperience defining AI evaluation frameworks and benchmarks
Location:
Dublin (hybrid working model)
3 days per week hybrid in the office in Dublin City Centre.
Please note: You must have the right to live/work in Ireland.
About the Company:
You’ll be joining a global data and AI organisation working with leading enterprises across industries including finance, healthcare, insurance and retail.
The business is investing heavily in AI innovation, with a strong focus on building scalable, responsible systems that deliver real impact.
Interested?:
If you’re excited by designing large-scale AI systems, leading engineering teams, and pushing the boundaries of agentic AI in production, this is the job for you!
Apply now or give me a shout if you’d like to have a chat.
Company:
nineDots.io
Qualifications:
Language requirements:
Specific requirements:
Educational level:
Level of experience (years):
Senior (5+ years of experience)
