AI Platform Engineer, Agentic Interfaces at IFS1

Department: Research and DevelopmentSeniority in posting: senior

Setup: On-site
Location: Borough of Spelthorne, England
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Aug 4, 2026

Description

IFS is hiring an AI Engineer to build and operate production AI systems that enable safe agent access to enterprise software. The role focuses on MCP servers, semantic layers, knowledge graphs, skills routing, control-plane security, evaluation, and operational practices, while also contributing to technical design, customer engagements, and industry events. Candidates need strong backend software engineering, distributed and cloud-native systems, AI and LLM experience, and depth in at least one of tool-surface/agent-runtime engineering, knowledge-graph/semantic modelling, or enterprise-platform systems.

Required Skills

MCP servers
Knowledge graphs
Distributed systems
Cloud-native architectures
API design
Event-driven systems
Security
Observability
CI/CD
Large language models
RAG
Workflow orchestration
Prompt engineering
Docker
Kubernetes

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Production experience building and operating enterprise systems
Experience delivering AI systems with LLMs, RAG, and agentic workflows
Experience integrating enterprise applications, business processes, workflows, and data platforms
Depth in tool-surface and agent-runtime engineering
Depth in knowledge graphs and semantic modelling
Depth in enterprise platform systems
Preferred Qualifications: Experience with agent frameworks
Experience building reusable AI platforms
Docker and Kubernetes
Hyperscale cloud platforms
Reverse-engineering or interpreter work
Token-efficient agent design
Enterprise software domains
Open-source contributions
Translation Company Name: IFS