Artificial Intelligence Engineer

STAMP 4 / EU CITIZENSHIP - APPLICANTS ONLY

Barden is delighted to partner with a leading organisation in their search for a Mid-level AI Engineer to join their team. This person will work across both business and engineering functions to design, build, and deploy production-ready AI agents that deliver measurable business value.

ABOUT THE ROLE

(AI Engineering | Agentic AI | Python)

You will lead the design and delivery of production-grade AI agents on an internal Agentic AI platform, while partnering closely with business stakeholders to identify and shape high-value use cases.

Responsibilities will include:

• Translating business problems into well-defined agentic solutions through structured discovery and requirements gathering
• Engineering and iterating agent prompts and instructions (context engineering) to ensure consistent, reliable behaviour
• Building and configuring MCP-based integrations, including defining tool contracts and troubleshooting tool execution issues
• Developing MCP servers to wrap external APIs and internal systems with proper authentication, error handling, and logging
• Designing end-to-end agentic workflows, including retrieval, tool use, and analytics/AI model integration
• Managing and improving file-based knowledge bases, including ingestion, organisation, and RAG optimisation

ABOUT YOU

• A hybrid profile combining strong software engineering capability with business-facing communication skills and a passion for applied AI systems.
• Ability to assess AI use case feasibility, complexity, and business value (including ROI framing and prioritisation)
• Experience acting as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Focus on end-user experience and business outcome optimisation

AI Engineering

• 3-6 years of software engineering or equivalent experience
• 1-2 years of experience building LLM-powered applications, including AI agents, RAG systems, or tool-using systems (Personal, research, or exploratory projects are also welcome, even if not productionised)
• Strong understanding of LLM behaviour, including context windows, tokenisation, hallucinations, latency, and cost trade-offs
• Familiarity with secure authentication patterns including OAuth 2.0 / OIDC and identity platforms such as Azure Entra ID
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including Git, testing, code reviews, logging, and monitoring
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work in an Agile, cross-functional team environment

OTHER DETAILS

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge Agentic AI systems in a highly applied, production-focused environment
• Strong focus on real-world value delivery, evaluation, and continuous improvement of AI agents
• Permanent position (salary + benefits)

LOCATION

• Our client's team is based in Ireland/EU, with an office in Madrid.
• Travel required up to twice per month within Europe.

If this role aligns well with your experience, please apply here or contact rachel.mcguckian@Barden.ie for more information.