loveholidays - Conversational AI Engineer
Requirements
• Conversational AI Core: Foundational understanding of conversational AI concepts - virtual agents (intents, entities, dialogue management, fulfillment) through to LLM-driven agentic approaches. • Platform Exposure: Experience building virtual agents on conversational platforms (e.g., Google Dialogflow CX, Vertex AI Agent Builder, Amazon Lex, Rasa). • Software Engineering: Strong programming proficiency in Python or TypeScript or other programming language, backed by solid software engineering and infrastructure development practices. • Advanced LLM Orchestration: Experience designing LLM applications beyond basic APIs, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, orchestration logic, and tool/agent workflows. • API Integration: Strong awareness of REST APIs and webhooks to effectively connect AI agents with backend systems and external tools. • Cloud & DevOps: Familiarity with cloud deployment environments (preferably Google Cloud Platform) and CI/CD practices for AI workflows. • Experience with the Google Agent Development Kit (ADK), LangChain, or similar multi-agent orchestration frameworks. • Practical familiarity with vector databases, hybrid search techniques, and advanced chunking strategies for optimizing RAG systems. • Knowledge of or previous experience within the travel sector or fast-paced B2C e-commerce environments. • Familiarity with version control tools (Git) and working effectively within an agile team environment. • The interview journey: • TA screening - 30 mins • 1st stage video interview with Lead Conversational AI Engineer - 1 hour • Take-home engineering task • Final stage with Director of Business IT & AI Operations and senior stakeholders - 1 hour
Responsibilities
• Build and maintain conversational AI agents using Google Dialogflow CX and Vertex AI Agent Builder, contributing to flows, fulfilment logic and agent configurations. • Support the development of agentic workflows – learning how to design multi-step, tool-using agents that can reason and act across systems to resolve customer queries. • Work with the Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) to assist in building, testing and iterating on agent capabilities under the guidance of more senior engineers. • Analyse conversational data and real customer interaction patterns to understand how users engage with our agents, surfacing insights that inform improvements to the customer experience. • Contribute to the testing and quality assurance of conversational flows and agentic pipelines, identifying and resolving errors or unexpected behaviour. • Assist in the analysis of conversational data and performance metrics to support continuous improvement of the user experience. • Collaborate with Conversation Designers, product managers and engineers to ensure technical implementations match the intended design and business goals. • Participate in team ceremonies including stand-ups, retrospectives and planning sessions, communicating your progress and raising blockers clearly. • Stay curious about developments in agentic AI, LLMs and the broader conversational AI landscape, sharing learnings with the team through show and tells or internal channels.
Benefits
• At loveholidays - we trailblaze together. We’re on a mission to open the world to everyone, giving our customers’ unlimited choice, unmatched ease and unmissable value for their next getaway. Our team is the driving force behind our role as our customers’ personal holiday expert - the smart way to get away. • Technology at loveholidays underpins our vision to become the global leader in packaged holidays. We drive cutting-edge innovation and technical excellence to futureproof the business. Our systems process trillions of daily holiday offers, we deploy over a thousand times a month, serving thousands of requests per second. This is where you can accelerate your growth by solving complex challenges and broadening your skillset. • Company pension contributions at 5%. • Individualised training budget for you to learn on the job and level yourself up. • Discounted holidays for you, your family and friends. • 25 days of holidays per annum (plus 8 public holidays) increases by 1 day for every second year of service, up to a maximum 30 days per annum. • Ability to buy and sell annual leave. • Cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan and eye care vouchers. • At loveholidays, we focus on developing an inclusive culture and environment that encourages personal growth and collective success. Each individual offers unique perspectives and ideas that increase the diversity and effectiveness of our teams. And we value the insight and potential you could bring on our continued journey.
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