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Staff AI Engineer - 2nd Horizon | UK | Remote

AI / ML Engineer • Principal • Remote • Full-time United Kingdom United Kingdom

Grafana Labs is hiring for a skunkworks initiative (UK, remote) building AI-driven features that help enterprise users understand and act on large, disparate datasets.

Responsibilities

  • Build delightful, high-performance AI features helping users discover, organize, and optimize access to large datasets
  • Rapidly prototype, test, and validate with real users; ship and evolve LLM- or agent-powered workflows for the data engineering lifecycle
  • Collaborate with the team to shape AI-driven product features, including integrating agentic components with internal tools like Slack and alerting systems
  • Use AI and automation tools to enhance both product functionality and your own development workflow
  • Communicate effectively and collaborate across teams in a highly dynamic environment
  • Take full ownership of the AI solutions you develop, ensuring they are innovative, scalable, maintainable, and aligned with real user workflows

Requirements

  • Experience with LLMs, context engineering, and building applications powered by GenAI
  • Proven track record of delivering software that made it into production and is actively used
  • Exposure to cloud-native environments (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Experience using observability tools to understand and troubleshoot system behavior
  • Strong software engineering background with a quick iteration mindset
  • Self-starter able to tackle complex engineering problems and make UI design decisions with minimal supervision

Nice to have

  • Experience building or working with agent frameworks or multi-agent workflows
  • Experience as a data analyst or working with data platforms (e.g. Looker, Tableau, Power BI, Snowflake, Databricks)
  • Experience building tools for data engineering

Soft skills

Effective communication in a highly dynamic, collaborative environmentOpenness to feedback with a solutions-oriented mindsetProactive initiative and comfort with ambiguityOwnership mindset and self-direction

What we offer

  • 100% remote, global culture (40+ countries, 1,600+ team members)
  • Equity, bonus (if applicable), and other benefits
  • Transparent, open decision-making and regular company-wide updates
  • Defined career growth pathways
  • 30 days annual leave, including 3 company-wide Shutdown Days
  • In-person onboarding for new hires

About the company

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open observability cloud, founded on open source, open standards, and open culture. Grafana Cloud is used by more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce.

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