Sr. Applied AI/ML Scientist

The role

You will architect and deliver production agentic workflows and LLM-powered features. You will also drive quality, evaluation, and observability for LLM systems and evolve semantic search infrastructure.

What you will do

• Architect and deliver production agentic workflows
• Own the design of LLM-powered content enrichments
• Lead the technical direction for tool-augmented LLM systems
• Make architecture-level decisions regarding model and tool usage
• Define structured prompting standards and output schemas
• Set evaluation standards including offline benchmarks and online experimentation
• Own guardrails for safety, hallucination reduction, and factual grounding
• Build observability including tracing, cost tracking, and latency budgets
• Evolve embedding and semantic search infrastructure
• Partner with Product and UX to translate AI ideas into features

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of experience building and operating production software systems
• 2+ years hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered features in real-world applications
• Strong backend engineering skills (Python preferred)
• Experience with Large Language Model APIs and transformer-based techniques
• Experience with embedding models and similarity search
• Experience with vector databases
• Experience with prompt engineering and structured output techniques
• Experience with LLM evaluation frameworks and automated testing
• Experience with LLMOps practices
• Track record of owning a system end-to-end in production
• Experience making and defending architectural trade-offs
• Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical design reviews

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s in Data Science, Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, or a related discipline
• Experience with AI orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangGraph, etc.)
• Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or tool-calling architectures
• Experience building agentic workflows or tool-using systems
• Knowledge of semantic search and content retrieval systems
• Experience with cloud platforms
• Background in media analytics, content intelligence, or large-scale text processing
• Experience in startup or high-growth environments

Benefits

• Comprehensive Private Health & Dental: 100% premium coverage for you and your eligible dependents through VHI (Health) and DeCare (Dental)
• Pension Scheme: 1-to-1 match up to 6% of your salary
• Life & Disability Insurance: 100% paid-for life cover and disability insurance
• 25 days of leave, plus all public holidays and additional company-wide Rest & Recharge days
• Paid Parental Leave: 26 weeks of full pay for birthing parents and 16 weeks of full pay for non-birthing parents
• Access to subsidized child/eldercare through Care.com
• Full access to Modern Health for you and your dependents
• Annual $700 USD Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA)
• One-time $550 USD home office stipend
• Monthly $50 USD internet stipend
• €18 daily lunch stipend via Deliveroo when working in the Dublin office
• Access to the Tax Saver Commuter/Cycle to Work scheme

Before you apply

• If you are based in another location within EMEA, they aren’t able to hire in your location at this time

About the company

NewsWhip by Sprout Social processes the world's news in real time to provide predictive intelligence for journalists, PR leaders, and global brands.