Senior AI Agent Engineer

About Beam

Beam is a tech start-up revolutionising business operations with AI. Our AI Agents empower organisations by automating repetitive tasks, boosting productivity in seconds. With seamless integration into business applications, our agents provide support where teams need it most. Our mission? To transform business practices, increase efficiency, improve competitiveness, and scale operations globally.

To learn more about us, please visit our website at https://www.beam.ai/

About The Role

As a Senior AI Agent Engineer at Beam, you will play a key role in delivering enterprise-grade AI automations tailored to real business processes. You'll work directly with clients to understand their requirements, break down complex workflows, and design prompt-driven agents that solve high-impact problems. You'll also support integration efforts with client systems and ensure smooth delivery from concept to deployment.

We're looking for someone who thrives in a hands-on, fast-moving environment, with a strong technical foundation, programming skills, a process-oriented mindset, and a passion for AI. You should feel confident working with APIs, designing robust automations, and collaborating across teams to turn business needs into working solutions. If you enjoy working across clients, technology, and automation, and want to build things that work in the real world, this is the role for you.

Responsibilities

Your work will involve both prompt engineering excellence and close customer collaboration. You will be expected to:

• Drive the entire lifecycle of AI automation deployment, from understanding customer requirements, through solution design, to hands-on implementation using our no-code Agent OS
• Engage directly with customers across technical and executive teams, helping them discover automation opportunities and building AI solutions that improve their operations
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and solutions teams to scope, define, and implement new features based on real customer needs
• Design agentic automations and engineer prompts that are scalable, efficient, and integrate smoothly into customer workflows
• Stay up to date with the latest advancements in AI and apply them to solve critical business problems and drive new features that impact the future of Beam's AI platform
• Troubleshoot technical issues and provide guidance to both customers and internal teams throughout the implementation process
• Act as a strategic technical partner, advising customers on best practices, helping them adopt AI agents, and identifying opportunities for deeper integration
• Work with client-side and internal technical teams to scope and manage API-based integrations
• Provide structured feedback from real use cases to help improve our platform
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI, or a related technical field
• At least 5 years of experience in roles like Solution Engineering, IT Consulting, Implementation or Deployment Engineering
• Strong hands-on experience with prompt engineering, including writing, testing, and optimizing prompts in a structured way
• Programming skills, especially in Python or Node.js
• Solid understanding of APIs and how to use them to integrate external systems
• Project management experience, able to manage delivery timelines and client expectations
• Experience engaging directly with clients, especially around requirement gathering and solution delivery
• Analytical and process-driven mindset, able to break down business workflows and think structurally
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts
• Passion for staying up to date with AI trends, tools, and industry developments
  
  

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with no-code tools such as Zapier, Make, Relevance AI, Lindy, or similar
• Background in AI/ML or experience applying AI to business workflows
• Experience in fast-paced or startup environments
  
  

Benefits

Why Beam?

At Beam, we foster a culture of ownership and growth, giving you the freedom to take charge of your work and make a meaningful impact on the future of AI. As part of a highly collaborative, fast-paced startup, you'll have the opportunity to work at the forefront of AI innovation, designing and building solutions that address real-world business challenges.

We offer more than just a job. Here, you'll find:

• Ownership and autonomy: You'll have the opportunity to own the full lifecycle of projects, from conception to execution, and see your work directly impact businesses worldwide
• Personal and professional growth: We encourage continuous learning and innovation. Whether you're advancing in your technical expertise, growing your leadership skills, or shaping the next generation of AI solutions, your growth is our priority
• Being at the cutting edge: You'll be working with the latest AI technologies, driving innovation in generative AI and natural language processing
• Competitive benefits and stock options: We offer a competitive salary, stock options, and comprehensive benefits to ensure you're not only rewarded today but also invested in the future of the company.
• Collaborative Culture: You'll work alongside brilliant minds in an agile, collaborative, and supportive startup environment, where your ideas can truly make a difference
  
  

If you are passionate about leveraging AI to drive innovation and thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, we'd love to hear from you! Join us in shaping the future of AI-powered solutions!