Senior AI Automation Engineer

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Senior AI Automation Engineer - (Talent Pool / Future Opportunities) Location: Remote from Colombia

.Monks Technology Services, part of Media.Monks and S4 Capital, is a global consulting firm mastering AI-powered transformations for the Fortune 100. We combine long-term strategic thinking, deep enterprise experience, and a human-centered approach to help clients transform business processes and dominate their industries.

About the Role As a Senior AI / Orchestration Engineer , you’ll build the orchestration layer behind agentic AI systems that execute complex business workflows end to end. You’ll design systems that maintain state, determine the next best action, route agents, and incorporate human judgment at critical decision points. Working within a Monks delivery team, you’ll collaborate with clients, product teams, engineers, and domain experts to shape emerging agentic engineering patterns and turn them into production-ready solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and build agent orchestration layers, including workflow state, event-driven agent execution, and next-best-action logic

• Integrate LLMs through provider-agnostic layers using platforms such as Anthropic, OpenAI, and Writer.ai

• Implement structured outputs, tool-calling, retries, guardrails, and model-routing strategies

• Transform unstructured inputs—including documents, transcripts, and business records—into reliable, actionable data

• Build human-in-the-loop approval workflows that keep users in control of high-impact decisions

• Establish evaluation and tuning loops to measure agent quality and improve system behavior

• Identify and address non-deterministic failure modes through testing, observability, and guardrails

• Collaborate with frontend, product, client, and domain stakeholders to deliver complete solutions

• Use AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex as part of the software development workflow

• Communicate technical concepts clearly to both executive and non-technical audiences

• Other duties as assigned

About You Qualifications & Skills

• 5+ years of experience shipping production software

• Hands-on experience building LLM-powered or agentic applications using tool-calling, structured outputs, RAG, and prompt iteration

• Strong experience with TypeScript and Node.js, or deep software engineering expertise in another ecosystem such as Python

• Experience with an orchestration framework such as LangGraph.js, Vercel AI SDK, or Mastra

• Experience with provider SDKs such as Anthropic, OpenAI, or Writer.ai

• Experience designing scalable systems on AWS

• Demonstrated ability to parse, extract, validate, and structure unstructured data

• An evaluation-driven approach to measuring and improving agent performance

• Ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments and turn undefined problems into actionable solutions

• Product-minded approach that connects architecture and model decisions to measurable user value

• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain agent pipelines to technical and non-technical stakeholders

• B2+ English proficiency

• Comfort working in a fast-paced, agile consulting environment

• Experience delivering AI solutions in regulated or high-stakes industries such as legal, healthcare, or fintech is a plus

• Experience building automated evaluation harnesses for LLM systems is a plus

• Experience with voice, transcript, or document-intensive workflows is a plus

• Experience with Next.js, open-source agent projects, or Writer.ai is a plus

.Monks Technology Services does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status.

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About Monks

Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc, where our culture centers on how we show up for the work and for one another. That begins with the commitment to strive for mastery—taking deep pride in our craft and creating work that sets the bar. In everyday execution, we drive momentum by choosing bold action rather than waiting for certainty. Above all, our teams are stronger together, bringing diverse perspectives into a unified team that communicates with clarity, trust, and mutual respect.

This commitment to craft and innovation translates directly into widespread industry acclaim: Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services and a leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Digital Marketing Agencies. It ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization (2025), Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2026 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in the Human-Machine Interaction Team category. Additionally, Monks.Flow earned AI-based Marketing Solution of the Year at the 2026 AI Breakthrough Awards and a 2026 Global Generative AI Award in the Agentic Marketing Innovation category. Finally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.