Applied AI Engineer

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 trailblaze together culture is what drives our success, powered by our people and the way they work. Using progressive technology, we drive cutting-edge innovation and improve how our customers discover, book and experience their holidays. You’ll have the opportunity to accelerate your growth through meaningful challenges, new experiences and the freedom to shape your own path. You’ll create impact for our future by taking ownership, contributing to shared goals and helping shape what comes next, all as part of our enhanced international community of talented, collaborative and passionate teams.

You’ll sit in the Applied AI who are part of the wider AI Centre of Excellence reporting to the Lead Applied AI Engineer. You’ll work closely with our business verticals, engineering, security, vendors and business stakeholders to build, administer and improve the AI-enabled systems and SaaS platforms that support our customers and colleagues.

Together, the Centre of Excellence teams builds and operates applied and agentic AI workflows, SaaS services, integrations and data pipelines to deliver the business objectives of the supported verticals. You’ll contribute to production services from day one, developing your skills while improving reliability, automation and operational outcomes.

The team sits within Business IT & AI Operations, providing the technical expertise, governance and operational ownership that help loveholidays scale intelligent automation and well-run business systems safely and effectively.

• Administer and continuously improve a rangeSaaS platforms and AI-enabled services, including configuration, access, environments, integrations and lifecycle management.

• Build and maintain applied and agentic AI workflows and automation pipelines that connect models, tools, business data, APIs and SaaS systems.

• Use Google ADK or similar frameworks to build, test and iterate on tool-using agents and AI-powered automations.

• Monitor service health, usage, cost and performance; lead testing, evaluation and incident triage to improve reliability and prevent recurring issues.

• Partner with product, engineering, security, vendors and business teams to translate needs into effective platform configurations, integrations and automations.

• Document configurations, dependencies and runbooks, applying secure change-management, governance and operational practices.

• SaaS Administration: Experience administering cloud-based business systems, including configuration, user access, environments, integrations, release management and vendor support.

• Applied AI & Agentic Workflows: Experience building agentic workflows that combine models, tools and business data, including orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation and evaluation. Familiarity with Google ADK or similar frameworks is desirable.

• API & Data Integration: Strong knowledge of REST APIs, webhooks and event-driven or scheduled pipelines for connecting SaaS platforms, AI services and backend systems.

• Familiarity with cloud environments, preferably Google Cloud Platform, CI/CD, observability, incident management and secure operational practices.

• Intro with a member of the Talent Acquisition team - 30 mins

• 1st stage video interview with Lead Applied AI Engineer - 1 hour

• Applied AI and SaaS administration task

• Final stage with Director of Applied AI and senior stakeholders - 1 hour

At loveholidays, we focus on creating an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute, grow and succeed. We value the different perspectives, experiences and ideas each person brings, because they help us work better together, challenge our thinking and make stronger decisions.

As we continue to grow and evolve, we want everyone to feel supported and able to do their best work. We’re also committed to making our hiring process accessible, so please let our Talent Acquisition team know if you need any adjustments at any stage.