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Agentic AI Software Engineer
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Agentic AI Engineer
You’ll help design and build ethical, secure agentic AI solutions for national security teams. You’ll bring a strong software engineering background, use AI as a power user, and turn emerging agent capabilities into dependable systems that make a real difference.
Based from Woking or Romsey, you’ll work across agentic AI, software engineering, cloud, cyber, and data challenges. You’ll act as a force multiplier for AI-assisted development, helping teams adopt effective agentic harnesses, tools, and working practices.
What you’ll be doing
- Redesign end-to-end workflows around AI agents, identifying where autonomy, human oversight, and conventional software provide the best outcomes.
- Design, build, and deploy secure AI agents and multi-agent systems that integrate with mission-critical software, data, and services.
- Use agentic harnesses and AI-assisted development tools to accelerate engineering while maintaining quality, security, traceability, and human accountability.
- Evaluate when to use off-the-shelf agent frameworks and managed services, including capabilities supplied by Elasticsearch and AWS, and when a bespoke approach is justified.
- Create reusable patterns, guardrails, evaluation approaches, and delivery practices that help multidisciplinary teams adopt agentic AI safely and effectively.
What you’ll bring
We know great candidates may not tick every box. We’re looking for an experienced software engineer who is enthusiastic about AI, understands how agents change software delivery, and can help others use these capabilities effectively. The must-haves are below; the rest can be developed with support from the team.
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Must-haves
- A strong software engineering background, with professional Python development experience and sound knowledge of architecture, APIs, testing, and maintainable code.
- Experience as an AI power user, applying coding assistants, agentic harnesses, or related tools to improve software delivery.
- Hands-on experience designing or building AI agents, tool-using applications, retrieval workflows, or multi-step automations.
- Good engineering practices, including Git, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and secure development.
- The judgement to balance agent autonomy with guardrails, evaluation, human oversight, security, and responsible AI principles.
- Eligibility and willingness to achieve DV clearance.
- MLOps – Integrating machine learning workflows with DevOps and data engineering practices.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of agent-building frameworks and managed capabilities such as those supplied by Elasticsearch and AWS, together with the ability to assess off-the-shelf options against bespoke solutions.
- Experience with LLMs, prompt and context engineering, RAG, tool use, memory, orchestration, and agent evaluation using frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph.
- Practical experience deploying containerised, observable, and secure AI solutions on AWS.
- Relevant certifications e.g. AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate, AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional.
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Why ROKE?
At ROKE, you’ll work with smart, welcoming teams on technology that helps protect lives and national security. You’ll have the opportunity to shape how agentic AI transforms engineering and operational workflows, supported by mentoring, coaching, and the ROKE Academy.
- Competitive salary, plus benefits and bonus (dependent on skills and experience).
- You’ll also have 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, private medical insurance, and health, wellness, and family support - plus other benefits.
- Relocation packages are available for suitable candidates.
Where you’ll work
Based in our Manchester site, you’ll be part of a collaborative engineering community delivering high-impact work in the national security space. Our office is located in the city-centre, with excellent access to trams, local amenities, and our customers.
Clearance
This role requires you to be eligible and willing to achieve DV clearance. Eligibility criteria are available on the gov.uk website.
Next step
Ready to redesign workflows around AI agents and multiply the impact of engineering teams? Apply with your latest CV - we’d love to hear from you.
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