Prompting Engineer

Company: Malvern Panalytical
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Overview

In this role you will own the behavior of LLM-driven agents in production, shaping prompts and evaluating outputs to ensure accuracy, on-brand tone, and cost efficiency. You will work within an established framework to design prompts, guardrails, and evaluation methods, driving improvements through feedback loops and A/B testing. You’ll partner with cross-functional teams to align AI outputs with business goals while maintaining safety standards. This is an opportunity to influence customer-facing AI at scale inside a premier analytics technology company.

Responsibilities

  • Develop & tune prompts and architectures for production AI agents (system prompts, tool instructions, guardrails, output schemas)
  • Build and run evaluation suites and regression tests; define quality metrics and acceptance thresholds with business owners
  • Design and operate A/B testing for prompts and model variants; implement feedback loops from human review for agent optimization
  • Support LLM optimization efforts focusing on model selection, context-window management, structured outputs, and token efficiency
  • Maintain tone-of-voice and multi-language consistency for customer communications using professional British English as baseline
  • Stress-test guardrails against adversarial inputs, edge cases, and hallucination risks within safety standards
  • Document prompt patterns, test coverage, and evaluation results to enable structured business feedback

Key requirements

  • 1+ year hands-on experience with LLM applications (prompting, RAG, structured outputs)
  • Experience with systematic testing, data validation, or QA of AI/ML systems
  • Strong prompt-writing craft; disciplined experimentation and basic Python/data-handling skills for evaluation pipelines
  • Exceptional written English with professional B2B tone and nuance
  • Clear documentation, attention to detail, and structured approach to user feedback
  • Attention to detail
  • Structured problem solving
  • Collaborative cross-functional communication
  • Prompt-writing craft
  • Experimentation design and analysis
  • Python or data-handling basics for evaluation pipelines

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Posted: September 14th, 2026