Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Senior AI Engineer / AI Architect - €750 per day

About the Role

Global Aviation company requires a Senior AI Engineer / AI Architect to lead the design, delivery and support of enterprise AI solutions that drive business transformation. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on building scalable AI capabilities, automating complex business processes and improving access to information across the organisation. The breakdown of responsibilities for this role is approximately 60% Engineering, 25% Architecture and 15% Leadership / Governance.

Attendance for this role will be on a Hybrid basis, with the Senior AI Engineer/Architect required onsite 2-3 days per week in the organisations Dublin City Centre head offices. While initially offered on a contract basis, the scale of current projects is such that there is a strong probability of this role being extended wel beyond this timeframe.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and architect enterprise AI solutions, integration patterns and reusable AI capabilities.
• Deliver Generative AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), intelligent document processing and agent-based solutions into production environments.
• Lead the implementation of multi-agent workflows and AI-enabled business automation.
• Benchmark and evaluate AI models, platforms and architectures for quality, performance, scalability and cost-effectiveness.
• Establish AI governance, security and operational standards, including monitoring, evaluation and LLMOps practices.
• Integrate AI capabilities across Microsoft technologies including Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Microsoft Graph and Azure services.
• Take technical ownership of existing production AI applications, driving continuous improvement, optimisation and stability.
• Support production environments through incident investigation, root cause analysis and technical troubleshooting.
• Produce high-quality design documentation and architecture artefacts.
• Provide technical leadership to internal teams and oversee the quality of external delivery partners.

Essential Candidate Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• At least 7+ years' experience delivering end-to-end AI solutions using the Microsoft AI and Azure technology stack in enterprise environments.
• Extensive experience designing, building and deploying Generative AI and Large Language Model (LLM) solutions.
• Strong expertise in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), prompt engineering and information retrieval optimisation.
• Experience developing agentic AI solutions, including multi-agent workflows, orchestration, tool integration and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Strong knowledge of AI evaluation, benchmarking, model performance measurement and AI governance frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure AI services, including Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search and Azure AI Document Intelligence.
• Advanced Python engineering skills, including application architecture, testing, dependency management and production-grade development practices.
• Practical experience with LangChain, LangGraph or similar AI orchestration frameworks.
• Experience building secure, cloud-native AI applications and APIs, including identity management, RBAC, Key Vault and private networking.
• Knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code and LLMOps, including monitoring, observability and AI lifecycle management.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives, provide technical leadership and communicate effectively with business and technology stakeholders.

IMPORTANT! Our client cannot provide any kind of Visa or Work Permit sponsorship at present, so all applicants must already have an automatic right to work in Ireland or hold a Stamp 1G or Stamp 4 Visa.

To Apply:

For more information on this role, please contact Níall on +353 1 8690258 or +353 87 384 5327 or send current CV along with brief cover letter through this site