Senior Applied AI Engineer – Agent Runtime (Alwin by DataSnipper)

DataSnipper is an Agentic Automation Platform for audit and finance, building Alwin, a platform for purpose-built agents that execute workflows with traceable outputs and human review. The Senior Applied AI Engineer will own the applied AI layer of the Agent Runtime, designing, evaluating, deploying, and continuously improving long-running agent systems, tools, orchestration, and observability.

Responsibilities:

• Own the base agents: system prompt, context engineering, memory and state management for tasks that span many turns and hours of execution
• Design how agents use the tool layer, including document extraction, retrieval, code and file sandboxes, and MCP integrations, choosing the right level of abstraction so agents handle edge cases without wasting effort on mechanical steps
• Implement agentic patterns such as sub-agent composition, planning modes, human-in-the-loop gates, and model routing across multiple providers
• Ship end-to-end: from prototype with our audit domain experts, through evaluation, to production on Alwin
• Define and build automatic processes that improve the agent continuously over time
• Keep costs under control and implement cost-efficient approaches to AI-centric workflows
• Extract signal from long agent trajectories: attribute outcomes to specific reasoning steps and tool calls, classify failure modes, and turn them into fixes
• Hill-climb accuracy, latency and token cost, and make the trade-offs explicit for the teams building on the runtime
• Instrument agent behaviour with our observability stack and use production traces to drive improvements
• Partner with Agent Experience teams, Document Intelligence and the AI Platform team to turn their needs into runtime capabilities that are self-service rather than a request queue
• Stay on the frontier: evaluate new models, techniques and agent patterns, and bring the ones that hold up into production
• Ownership: You own work end-to-end, anticipate issues, and ensure high-quality delivery with minimal support. We expect you to influence the technical direction of the team
• Growth Mindset: You encourage open feedback exchange and provide clear, balanced feedback that helps others grow
• Collaboration: You build strong cross-functional relationships and influence peers through expertise, data, and empathy
• Adaptability: You navigate ambiguity calmly, model positive behavior, and help peers adjust through clear communication
• Judgment: You exercise sound judgment in ambiguous situations, balance speed and accuracy, and adjust priorities proactively