AI Engineer in Birmingham

Sidetrade is an AI company redefining how enterprises secure and accelerate cash flow. At the core of its applications is Aimie, Sidetrade’s agentic AI, trained on more than $7.7 trillion in B2B transactions. Sidetrade’s AI-Powered Order-to-Cash Platform transforms financial operations, helping leading enterprises increase revenue, protect profitability, and optimize working capital. Powered by a proprietary Order-to-Cash Data Lake and domain expertise, Aimie continuously learns and operates autonomously across the Order-to-Cash.

This co-worker drives agility, informs decision-making, and ensures reliable execution. Aimie enables finance, sales, and customer-facing teams to unlock working capital and strengthen resilience. Sidetrade supports businesses in 85 countries and employs 450 people across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

Mission: Sidetrade is launching a brand new, high-impact engineering initiative to build a company-wide platform for internal autonomous agents. These agents will fundamentally change how every business function operates, from Customer Success, Finance, Product, Sales, and Operations, by automating high-volume workflows through intelligent, end-to-end systems.

As an AI Engineer, you will design, architect, and deploy these autonomous agents at scale. This is real production engineering: agents that plan, reason, orchestrate tools, call APIs, manage state, and execute reliably inside a live enterprise environment. You will be part of the founding team shaping this initiative from day one. You will define the architecture, select the frameworks, and establish the engineering patterns that will power Sidetrade’s internal agent platform for years.

The agents you build will be used daily across the organisation and will deliver measurable impact immediately. This is a rare greenfield opportunity. If you are excited by modern agent frameworks and want to build next-generation agentic systems that change how a company operates, you will thrive here. You will operate at the intersection of AI engineering, workflow design, process intelligence, and automation.

This role gives you the runway to build something transformational and to work at the forefront of applied enterprise AI within a small, senior, and high ownership team.

What you’ll be doing:

• Build and deploy internal AI agents
• Design and develop autonomous agents using frameworks such as Kubiya, Agno, CrewAI, AutoGen, LangGraph, Rasa, Botpress or similar
• Translate business workflows into agent behaviour
• Partner with business teams to understand how work is done and where automation creates the most value
• Orchestrate agents using automation tools
• Integrate agents with enterprise systems
• Run, monitor and iterate agents in production
• Influence the technical direction of internal agents at Sidetrade

What You’ll Need to be Successful:

Core Skills (Must-Hold):

• Minimum one year of hands-on experience building AI agents or agentic workflows in production
• Proficiency with at least one modern agent framework: n8n / Beam AI / Langflow or an equivalent production-grade agent stack
• Ability to translate real business processes into structured agent behaviours
• Solid engineering fundamentals, ideally Python
• Experience integrating agents with enterprise systems
• Clear thinking around agent autonomy boundaries, failure modes, fallback logic, and safe deployment in business-critical environments
• Experience running and maintaining agents in production environments

Nice to Have:

• Experience building agents in Pydantic / Agno / Crew or equivalent
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools: Airflow / Temporal / Zapier or equivalent
• Experience in a tech, AI or B2B SaaS environment
• Familiarity with containerised deployment, self-hosted stacks or internal infrastructure
• Exposure to RAG pipelines, vector stores or embedding search

Equal Opportunity: At Sidetrade, we cultivate a multicultural environment that fuels innovation. We strongly value diversity, gender equality, inclusivity, and fairness. As an equal opportunity employer, we reject all forms of discrimination and harassment. Your unique contributions are celebrated, driving collective success in our inclusive workplace.