Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Python or Node.js | Dublin Hybrid (1 day onsite) | Contract

You’ll be joining a well-established global business in Dublin to work on a real applied AI problem.

This isn’t “throw an LLM at a PDF and hope for the best”. The team has a working proof of concept, and now needs a strong engineer to help turn it into something robust, scalable, and useful.

You’ll be building systems that can ingest complex business documents, extract the important information, structure it properly, and support internal teams in making faster, better decisions.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll work on:

• Document ingestion and processing pipelines
• Extracting structured data from messy documents
• Using LLMs where they genuinely add value
• Building backend services, APIs, and workflows
• Designing human-in-the-loop systems
• Helping shape the data model / ontology behind the product
• Turning an early proof of concept into a proper production system

What you’ll need

You’ll need to be a strong engineer with either Python or Node.js.

Useful experience includes:

• Backend engineering
• Document processing, PDF parsing, OCR, or extraction
• LLMs in real-world products
• RAG, embeddings, semantic search, or document understanding
• Working with unstructured or semi-structured data
• Designing clean data models around messy domains
• Building systems in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

Some React exposure would be useful, but this is mainly backend / applied AI.

What this is not

This is not a pure ML role (they won't want ML engineers)

You won’t be training models all day or doing academic research. This is applied AI in the real world: messy documents, unclear edges, humans in the loop, and systems that actually need to work.

The type of person who’ll do well

You’ll suit this if you like figuring things out, asking good questions, and turning vague problems into working software.

You should be pragmatic, technically strong, comfortable with ambiguity, and happy working closely with domain experts.

If you need every ticket perfectly written before you can move, this probably isn’t the one.

If you like owning complex problems and building useful systems, it could be a great contract.

In short

A strong Python or Node.js engineer is needed to help build applied AI systems around complex document understanding.

Real problem. Real users. Real business impact.

No toy demos. No buzzword bingo. Just a chunky engineering problem that needs someone sharp.

If you feel you're a fit, hit the apply button or ping me directly for a chat