Software Engineer (Agentic AI), AI Automation

Role Overview

Join our AI Automation team as a Software Engineer to build production-grade applications that incorporate Agentic AI and LLM-based capabilities. You will work across the application stack, designing and implementing Agentic AI capabilities, and contributing to the evaluation of LLM and Agentic AI systems.

What You Will Do

Build, test, deploy, and maintain production full-stack applications, design and implement Agentic AI capabilities, contribute to the evaluation of LLM and Agentic AI systems, and contribute to technical design and system architecture.

Why It Might Be a Fit

We are looking for someone with solid software engineering experience, comfortable working across different parts of a modern web application, and excited about developing deeper expertise in Agentic AI.

Requirements

• Professional experience building and deploying production software applications
• Good full-stack software engineering skills, with experience in backend development using Python and technologies such as FastAPI or Django, together with SQL, APIs, authentication, and system integrations
• Experience with, or a willingness to work across, frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript
• Hands-on experience building applications with generative AI or LLMs, with an understanding of concepts such as prompting, tool use, retrieval, structured outputs, agents, and LLM orchestration
• Experience with LLM evaluation, or a strong understanding of evaluation approaches for LLM-based applications, including concepts such as evaluation datasets, quality metrics, deterministic evaluation, human evaluation, LLM-as-a-judge, and regression testing
• A good foundation in system design and software architecture, with an understanding of areas such as API design, data flows, application boundaries, scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability
• Exposure to DevOps and cloud environments, including areas such as application deployment, CI/CD, monitoring, logging, and debugging production issues
• A product and problem-solving mindset, with the ability and willingness to quickly develop domain knowledge

Benefits

• Flexible start times and end times
• Approach to personal development where we encourage individuals to grow and share what they’ve learned
• Social events, both within the department and across the company
• Generous annual leave and wider circle employee benefits
• Additional one day off to celebrate your birthday
• Membership in Employee Resource Groups (Mintel Diversity, Mintel Wellness, and Mintel Gives)
• Giving back is part of our culture with this in mind, Mintel gives employees 2 days’ leave per year to join local volunteering activities organised by our Mintel Gives (where applicable)
• Mental health and wellbeing support via Modern Health App
• Beautifully designed offices foster collaboration and fun