Senior Lead Agentic AI Engineer – Construction & Engineering
About the role
IFS is seeking a Senior Lead Agentic AI Engineer to lead a small, autonomous team focused on building AI-native, agentic software solutions for workforce management, project delivery, and scheduling in the construction and engineering sectors. The role involves hands-on coding, setting technical direction, and full lifecycle ownership of features across the stack, including design, build, test, deployment, and operations on a cloud-native platform. The ideal candidate will have experience leading or mentoring engineers, a strong sense of ownership, and fluency with AI tools and agentic engineering patterns. The position offers the opportunity to work in a global, diverse, and innovative environment with a commitment to sustainability and flexibility.
Must have
- A strong engineer who genuinely enjoys leading people and wants to stay close to the code while doing it.
- You take ownership without being asked, make progress when the brief is half-formed, and would rather ship and iterate than wait for perfect.
- You have depth in at least one area, whether that's front-end, back-end, data, quality, security, platform or applied AI, and the range to work across the stack.
- You've led or mentored engineers, and people tend to get better for having worked with you.
- You reason from the customer and commercial outcome as much as the technical one.
- You're genuinely fluent with AI tools and agentic patterns in real engineering work, not just familiar with them.
Nice to have
- A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field, or the equivalent proof in what you've built.
- Experience shipping AI-backed features such as LLM integration, RAG or agentic patterns.
- Experience with enterprise, ERP or project-based software, or exposure to construction, engineering or other field-heavy industries.
- Experience of agile delivery with globally distributed teams and leading them.
Technologies
- Agentic AI
- Agile
- CI/CD
- Claude Code
- Cloud Native
- Cursor
- ERP
- Event-Driven Architecture
- GitOps
- IFS
- Infrastructure as Code
- Kubernetes
- LLM
- Observability
- RAG
Highlights
IFS supports hybrid and flexible work arrangements to accommodate diverse needs and lifestyles, fostering an inclusive and community-driven workplace. The company values global collaboration and offers opportunities to engage with colleagues worldwide.
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