Technical Insight AI Agent Engineer (Contractor) in London

About Huawei Research and Development UK Limited. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. We have 207,000 employees and operate in over 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people around the world.

Our vision and mission is to bring digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. To this end, we will drive ubiquitous connectivity and promote equal access to networks; bring cloud and artificial intelligence to all four corners of the earth to provide superior computing power where you need it, when you need it; build digital platforms to help all industries and organizations become more agile, efficient, and dynamic; redefine user experience with AI, making it more personalized for people in all aspects of their life, whether they are at home, in the office, or on the go.

This spirit of innovation has led Huawei to work in close partnership with leading academic institutions in the UK to develop and refine the latest technologies. With a shared commitment to innovation and progress, both parties have worked together to achieve common goals and establish a strong partnership. The partnership between the UK and Huawei helps to develop the technologies of the future that will transform the way we all communicate, work and live.

For the past 30 years we have maintained an unwavering focus, rejecting shortcuts and easy opportunities that don’t align with our core business. With a practical approach to everything we do, we concentrate our efforts and invest patiently to drive technological breakthroughs.

This strategic focus is a reflection of our core values:

• Staying customer-centric
• Inspiring dedication
• Persevering
• Growing by reflection

Huawei's vision is a fully connected, intelligent world. To achieve this, we work to inspire passion for basic research around the world. Our combined passion drives development across the global innovation value chain. Huawei has the largest Research and Development organization in the world with 96,000+ employees in research centers around the globe. In the UK, we already have design centers in Cambridge, London, Edinburgh and Ipswich. We continue to explore and define new research directions and new services. We have expanded our collaborations with academic researchers; researched new network architectures, integration of communications and key enabling technologies; and developed the fundamental theories of these technologies. We invite you to join us on this exciting journey and drive your career forward.

Job Summary: Huawei are seeking a Technical Insight AI Agent Engineer to design, develop, and maintain systems for retrieving, analysing and summarizing internal and external technical information. This role is critical in enabling data-driven decision-making, identifying industry trends, and supporting strategic initiatives through high-quality insights.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement software system for extracting structured/unstructured data from internal repositories (e.g., web page, documents) and external sources (e.g., web page, research papers).
• Develop complex multi-agent systems for multi-step task execution, including agent role definition, goal planning, sub-task reasoning, tool use integration, state management, data retrieving, analysing and summarizing the technical content, output the high accuracy and high quality answer or report.

This job description is only an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The jobholder will carry out any other duties as may be reasonably required by his/her line manager. The job description and personal specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of Huawei Research and Development UK Limited.

Required:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience developing AI agent systems, with a focus on multi-agent architectures and complex multi-step task execution.
• Experience with frameworks/libraries for agent development (LangChain, AutoGen, LlamaIndex, etc.).
• Proficient experience with 'Prompt' and 'Context' Engineering.
• Working experience with RAG development.
• Excellent programming skills, Python preferred.
• Good software engineering experience, track record of delivering production-grade AI agent solutions (e.g., intelligent assistants).

Desired:

• Technical insights experience in domains such as AI or ICT.
• Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) for deploying scalable agent systems.
• Proficiency in additional languages is a plus.