Staff AI Engineer

The role

You will lead the design and delivery of agentic AI applications and the software to use them. You will build systems that plan, use tools, and carry out multi-step work from experimentation to production.

What you will do

• Design and build AI agents that plan tasks, use tools and adapt to results.
• Choose agent approaches and provide context and memory.
• Connect agents securely to enterprise systems.
• Write and review production code.
• Shape application architecture.
• Turn business needs into useful software with Product and Data teams.
• Take AI applications from early prototypes through to production and ongoing support.
• Establish automated tests, agent evaluations and controlled release processes.
• Monitor task success, speed and cost.
• Build privacy, security and responsible AI controls into agent design.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience in software engineering, AI/ML engineering or a related discipline.
• Hands-on delivery and operation of complex production systems, including agentic applications using tools, orchestration and context management.
• Strong software architecture skills across APIs, backend services, distributed systems and enterprise integrations.
• Advanced Python skills.
• Strong engineering fundamentals, including automated testing, code review, version control and maintainable design.
• Working knowledge of SQL and data access patterns.
• Practical understanding of context engineering, memory and agent evaluation.
• Experience delivering secure cloud applications using CI/CD, containers and observability.
• Understanding of application security, privacy and Responsible AI, including identity, authorisation and risks from model outputs and tool execution.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, including guiding architectural decisions, planning pragmatic delivery, influencing across teams, mentoring engineers and improving quality through reusable patterns

Nice to have

• Experience with Azure and Databricks, or comparable cloud and AI platforms.
• Experience with TypeScript or JavaScript and web application development.
• Experience with agent SDKs, MCP integrations and AI-assisted software development.

About the company

AirTrunk is a hyperscale data centre company that operates a platform of hyperscale data centres across the APME region.