AI Automation Engineer

Job title: AI Automation Engineer

Salary: Up to £70,000 per annum

Location: London

Job type: Permanent

About the role

A well-established, international business is looking for an AI Automation Engineer to design, build and support intelligent workflows that cut repetitive work and improve how the business operates. You will work with teams across Finance, HR, Operations and Customer Success to understand their processes and deliver practical solutions using workflow platforms, API integrations and AI agents. The aim is to save time, improve accuracy and free colleagues to focus on higher-value work.

Key responsibilities

• Work with business teams to document manual processes and identify the best automation opportunities, choosing between straightforward workflow automation and AI
• Assess opportunities on benefit, complexity and risk, and track time saved, accuracy, cost and user adoption
• Build, test and deploy end-to-end workflows using automation platforms, API integrations and generative AI or LLM agents
• Implement intelligent document processing to extract, categorise and validate information from emails, PDFs, invoices and contracts
• Connect cloud business systems through secure integrations and reliable data flows
• Build in approvals, permissions, exception handling and escalation routes, with human oversight
• Test workflow behaviour and AI output quality, and add logging, alerts, retries and recovery procedures
• Support live automations, investigate failures and manage API and system changes
• Document workflows and make sure they follow security, privacy and access-control requirements

Essential skills

• Demonstrable experience independently delivering and supporting production automations with measurable business benefits
• Hands-on experience with automation platforms such as Power Automate, Azure Logic Apps, n8n, Make.com, Zapier, UiPath or Automation Anywhere
• Experience integrating AI APIs (for example OpenAI or Anthropic) for summarisation, classification or assisted decision-making, including evaluating output quality and handling incorrect responses
• Strong Python and JavaScript
• Solid understanding of REST APIs, JSON and SQL, including authentication, permissions and secure credential handling
• Analytical, problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to explain technical capabilities clearly to non-technical colleagues

Desirable

• Background in systems integration, backend development, DevOps or RPA engineering
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases or AI orchestration frameworks

To apply, send your CV and we will be in touch