At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and build innovative AI agents that transform enterprise workflows.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking company leading the charge in AI-native innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic role with travel opportunities and a chance to work on groundbreaking projects.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by shaping how enterprises adopt cutting-edge AI technology.
- Qualifications: Experience in cloud-native systems and strong programming skills in Python or Java.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
We are a forward-thinking services company at the forefront of AI-native innovation. Our engineers embed deeply with customers, moving projects beyond experimentation into operational reality.
An AI Native Engineer with a strong foundation in building cloud-native solutions and hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic systems, especially for enterprise environments. You’re a critical thinker who thrives in ambiguity, delivering concrete results by designing, building, and running AI agents that augment workflows and scale across modern infrastructure.
You'll shape how enterprises adopt AI-native engineering - either by leading complex agentic solutions and developing engineering talent, or by owning critical technical areas E2E as a senior IC. Often, these will be net-new platforms and systems that need to be stitched together in our clients’ environments alongside our ecosystem partners.
Design and build enterprise-ready AI agents incorporating retrieval, orchestration, policy-based routing, tool invocation, evaluation harnesses, and lifecycle observability.
- AI Platform Integration: Develop and/or extend abstraction layers across AI providers (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, etc.)
- Cloud-Native Engineering: Leverage containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), microservices, serverless, event-driven architectures, CI/CD, and observability stacks to deliver scalable AI-native systems.
- Own deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting for your services in production.
- Participate in and/or lead design workshops, POCs, and code-with sessions to shape data-driven agent workflows with stakeholders, fostering trust and adoption.
- Communicate trade-offs, risks, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Iterate rapidly based on data, feedback, and changing requirements.
- Craft reusable patterns, documentation, and best practices that influence internal assets and client roadmaps.
- Contribute to internal communities of practice around AI-native and agentic engineering.
Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 25% to 75% depending on business need and client requirements.
Engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless). Hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production or near-production environments. Experience with modern AI platforms — OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, or open-source models — including building or using abstraction layers for multi-provider pipelines.
Strong Python, Java or equivalent experience building 12 factor applications + Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm). Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent OR equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)
Bonus Points If You Have:
- Relevant AI certifications or agentic tooling experience are a plus.
- You’ve served as an Agentic / AI Engineer in an enterprise environment.
- You’ve built multi-agent orchestrations using (Lang-graph, Crew AI, Claude SDK, Open AI SDK, etc).
- You have additional AI certifications or experience with agentic tooling and frameworks.
- You’ve defined or worked with enterprise-grade architectures for compound AI systems, orchestration frameworks, or agent registry / stream-based architectures.
- You understand the AI-native paradigm — blending cloud-native with generative model architectures — optimizing for performance, modularity, and efficiency.
- Driven execution across multiple workstreams, ensuring quality, delivery, and alignment with client outcomes.
Software Developer (AI Developer) in London employer: Accenture UK & Ireland
As a forward-thinking services company at the forefront of AI-native innovation, we offer our Software Developers an exceptional work environment that fosters creativity and collaboration. Our culture prioritises employee growth through hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies and opportunities to lead complex projects, all while working closely with clients to turn innovative ideas into operational realities. Located in a dynamic tech hub, we provide a unique chance to be part of a community that is shaping the future of AI engineering, with flexible travel options and a commitment to work-life balance.
Contact Details:
Accenture UK & Ireland Recruitment Team