18% of open engineering leadership roles in Ireland mention AI coding tools
Across 33 open EM, Staff, Principal, Head, Director and VP engineering roles at 9 companies, from public job boards. "EU" here means Europe: the EU-27, the UK, Switzerland, Norway and the rest of Europe, plus remote roles open across Europe.
33
Open leadership roles in Ireland
6
Mention AI coding tools
18%
1
Mention AI governance or the EU AI Act
3.0%
By country
Show all of Europe →| Country | Open roles | Mention AI tools | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 293 | 47 | 16% |
| Germany | 243 | 50 | 21% |
| France | 93 | 7 | 7.5% |
| Poland | 74 | 29 | 39% |
| Spain | 73 | 22 | 30% |
| Remote, Europe-wide | 53 | 4 | 7.5% |
| Netherlands | 40 | 9 | 23% |
| Portugal | 36 | 9 | 25% |
| Ireland | 33 | 6 | 18% |
| Sweden | 29 | 5 | 17% |
| Switzerland | 17 | 1 | 5.9% |
| Belgium | 17 | 6 | 35% |
| Serbia | 17 | 1 | 5.9% |
| Finland | 15 | 5 | 33% |
| Greece | 14 | 1 | 7.1% |
| Austria | 14 | 2 | 14% |
| Lithuania | 11 | 4 | 36% |
| Bulgaria | 11 | 2 | 18% |
| Italy | 10 | 2 | 20% |
| Denmark | 10 | 2 | 20% |
| Romania | 9 | 1 | 11% |
| Norway | 9 | 0 | 0% |
| Slovakia | 7 | 0 | 0% |
| Cyprus | 6 | 1 | 17% |
| Czechia | 6 | 2 | 33% |
| Hungary | 5 | 2 | 40% |
| Latvia | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| Slovenia | 3 | 1 | 33% |
| Ukraine | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Malta | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Croatia | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| North Macedonia | 1 | 0 | 0% |
A posting counts for the first European country it lists. Remote roles open across Europe have no single country.
Leadership vs individual contributors in Ireland
All 123 open engineering roles: 15% mention AI coding tools. Leadership 18%, individual contributors 14%.
| Role family | Share mentioning AI tools | Mention AI | Open roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering leadership | 18% | 6 | 33 |
| Software (general) | 6.5% | 2 | 31 |
| Security engineering | 6.3% | 1 | 16 |
| DevOps / SRE / Platform | 9.1% | 1 | 11 |
| Full stack | 60% | 6 | 10 |
| QA / Test / SDET | 0% | 0 | 10 |
| Data / ML engineering | 43% | 3 | 7 |
| Backend | 0% | 0 | 5 |
Posting languages in Ireland
All open engineering roles by the language the posting is written in. Tags are matched in English and eight other European languages, so local-language postings count too.
| Language | Share of postings | Open roles | Mention AI tools |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | 100% | 123 | 15% |
Top tools in Ireland
- AI-assisted development04
- Agentic workflows13
- Vector databases03
- LangChain02
- RAG02
- GitHub Copilot01
- CrewAI01
- Cursor01
- Agentic coding01
- Guardrails01
- LangGraph01
- LLMOps / MLOps01
- MCP (Model Context Protocol)01
- Multi-agent systems01
- OpenAI01
- Prompt / context engineering01
- Evals / LLM evaluation01
- AI governance01
- AI / agent harness01
- Claude01
- Claude Code01
Latest roles mentioning AI tools
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…reliable, self-service foundations that simplify complex integrations and speed up launches. Build an AI-first engineering organization: develop the platform hooks and working practices that enable agentic development and help teams…
Elastic · Ireland; United Kingdom
…so that what the engine knows improves from real usage. Any agent can use it: Elastic’s own Agent Builder, Claude Code, LangChain and other third-party harnesses. As a Principal AI Engineer, you own the improvement loop of this…
Grafana Labs · Republic of Ireland (Remote); Canada (Remote); Germany (Remote); Ireland (Remote); Spain (Remote); Sweden (Remote); UK (Remote); USA (Remote)
…to OSS and Enterprise. AI Notice: We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your choice of tools, within security guidelines), backed by a company-funded…
Trgscreen · Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
…with CI/CD pipelines, Azure DevOps, or equivalent tooling. Familiarity with AI developer tooling (e.g. Cursor, GitHub Copilot) and experience driving adoption responsibly within an engineering team. Exposure to cloud…
Intercom · Dublin, Ireland; London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
…as well as lead/architecture work. Build using the best tools in the industry. We invest heavily in AI-powered developer tools that remove friction and help you focus on solving meaningful problems. Play an active role in hiring,…
Intercom · Dublin, Ireland; London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
…as well as lead/architecture work. Build using the best tools in the industry. We invest heavily in AI-powered developer tools that remove friction and help you focus on solving meaningful problems. Play an active role in hiring,…
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