Senior AI Systems Engineer (Contract)
Agentic Frameworks
Tech Stack
About the Role
Orium is investing in AI and automation to build agentic systems that support real human decision-making. We're hiring a Senior AI Systems Engineer for a 16-week, part-time contract (~20 hours/week) to design and build the technical foundations of those systems.
Key responsibilities:
- Design and implement agentic workflows enabling two-way interaction between humans, agents, and systems
- Build workflow orchestration using tools like Zapier, n8n, APIs, and event-driven architectures
- Transition prototypes into production-ready systems with strong reliability patterns and human oversight
- Work with LLMs and prompts prioritizing correctness and human accountability
- Develop retrieval and indexing approaches (RAG, structured knowledge sources) so agents operate on accurate, relevant, up-to-date context
Required experience:
- Building AI/LLM systems that emphasize reliability and safe failure
- Prototype-to-production experience with strong architecture and scaling expertise
- Backend systems, workflows, integrations, and automation frameworks
- Workflow orchestration tools proficiency (Zapier, n8n, Temporal, Airflow, or similar)
- Strong JavaScript/TypeScript backend development
- Comfort navigating ambiguous problem spaces independently
