Senior ai Engineer Agentic ai - Python Backend H/F - Collective Works
Les missions du poste
Senior AI Engineer (Agentic AI / Python Backend)
Target:Senior Python backend developer who has delivered AI agents in production, ideally with experience in ontologies and knowledge graphs.
Context: Our AI (Engineering) team builds the AI features embedded in our SaaS platform, in an international environment. We are looking for a senior consultant to strengthen the team. The consultant will report to the Head of Data & AI.
Key responsibilities
Design and develop the backend components of AI features (SaaS and on-premise) running in production.
Build AI agents: multi-agent systems, workflow orchestration and LLM-driven reasoning.
Develop MCP servers and custom tools that connect agents to applications, APIs and databases.
Design RAG / Agentic AI architectures based on vector databases, knowledge graphs and ontologies.
Set up an AI gateway (such as LiteLLM) for model routing, governance and cost control.
Implement observability and evaluation for AI services (OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Langfuse...).
Mentor junior developers and help shape AI engineering best practices.
Must-have skills
Python / FastAPI: expert level, REST APIs, microservices, asynchronous programming.
Generative AI in production: significant, proven experience (not only POCs).
LangChain / LangGraph or equivalent, multi-agent systems.
MCP (Model Context Protocol) and A2A (Agent-to-Agent).
RAG: vector search, embeddings, context optimization.
Ontologies / knowledge graphs: business domain modeling and semantic reasoning. This is the core requirement for this role.
OpenTelemetry, Docker, CI/CD, Git, testing (pytest).
SQL (SQL Server, MySQL) and vector databases (Elasticsearch or equivalent).
Nice to have
Neo4j or another graph database (strongly preferred)
LiteLLM or another LLM gateway
LangSmith / Langfuse / Arize Phoenix
GKE / Google Cloud
Profile
Senior backend developer with real expertise in agentic AI, autonomous and able to contribute quickly.
Strong communicator, comfortable working in English with international teams.
Able to mentor junior team members.
Practical information
Start date: ASAP
Location: Puteaux (hybrid model - 2 days work from office)
Languages: French / English