Senior Staff AI Engineer

The role

You will lead technical architecture and design for the Maia AI team and build agentic AI features, tools and integrations. You will also mentor engineers and work with the Product Manager and Data Science team.

What you will do

• Lead technical architecture and design for the Maia team, working within a squad
• Drive agentic AI feature development, building new tools, integrations and workflows
• Stay ahead on Gen AI developments by trialling new models, tools and approaches
• Act as technical mentor and coach to engineers through code reviews, design input and hands-on guidance
• Collaborate with the Product Manager and Data Science team to turn product vision into technical reality

Required qualifications

• Proven experience working on agentic AI systems, including building and leading features in this space
• Deep programming background, ideally with Java
• Hands-on experience building scalable distributed systems on AWS
• Technical leadership experience, such as being a tech lead or influencing architecture decisions
• Ability to communicate complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity in fast-moving environments

Nice to have

• Full stack capability, particularly React, TypeScript and Tailwind
• Familiarity with frameworks like Langchain or Langgraph

Benefits

• Company equity
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
• 5 days paid volunteering leave
• Private health insurance
• Life insurance
• Pension
• Access to mental health support
• Flexible working culture that promotes work-life balance

Before you apply

• Matillion does not ask for money, fees or bank details at any point in hiring
• Recruiters contact you only from @matillion.com addresses; verify roles at matillion.com/careers

About the company

Matillion is the company behind Maia, an AI Data Automation platform used by organisations such as Cisco, DocuSign and Slack. It started in Manchester and now has teams across the UK, US and India.