Noux Talent
AI Engineering Lead – Automation & n8n
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AI Engineering Lead – Automation & n8n
Bolton | Hybrid – 1-2 days a week onsite
AI Engineering | n8n | LLMs | GenAI | Agentic AI | Automation | Technical Leadership
We’re looking for a hands-on AI Engineering Lead to lead an established team of three AI Engineers and help shape how AI and automation is engineered across the business.
This is very much a technical role. You’ll still be building, coding and solving complex engineering problems, while providing technical direction to the team and putting the standards and engineering practices in place as the AI capability grows.
There are two things we really need - strong AI engineering experience and genuine hands-on n8n expertise.
n8n is a strategic platform for the business, so we’re looking for someone who has built with it in a production environment and understands what good looks like beyond individual workflows. You’ll help establish the framework around n8n, creating reusable patterns and standards and making sure solutions are reliable, resilient and built to scale.
The Role
- Leading the technical design and delivery of AI, LLM and GenAI solutions
- Remaining hands-on with coding and complex engineering work
- Establishing the n8n design and implementation framework
- Creating reusable workflow patterns, components and engineering standards
- Improving monitoring, alerting, resilience and reliability across AI and automation solutions
- Providing technical leadership, mentoring and 1:1 support to three AI Engineers
- Reviewing technical approaches and ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, maintainable and production-ready
- Working alongside wider internal and offshore technical teams
- Helping manage performance, priorities, resourcing and cost across the AI engineering function
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What we're looking for
- Strong hands-on n8n experience, including using it as a production automation platform
- Commercial experience building and deploying AI/LLM solutions into production
- Experience with Generative AI, RAG, agentic AI or AI-powered workflows
- Strong workflow automation, API and systems integration experience
- A strong software engineering/coding background
- Experience with monitoring, alerting, error handling and resilience
- Experience with Azure, AWS or GCP
- Experience establishing technical standards and engineering best practice
- Experience leading, mentoring or technically supporting engineers
- A good understanding of security, data and compliance within AI delivery
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Experience with other automation technologies such as Power Automate, Blue Prism or UiPath would be useful alongside n8n, but isn’t essential.
You might currently be a Senior AI Engineer, Lead AI Engineer, AI Automation Engineer, AI Engineering Lead, Intelligent Automation Engineer or Senior Automation Engineer. If you’re a strong engineer who has built with n8n, delivered AI solutions into production and wants to stay hands-on while taking technical ownership of a growing AI engineering capability, we’d love to hear from you.
At Noux Talent, we believe recruitment should be inclusive by design. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to creating an accessible recruitment process. If you need any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know. We’re happy to make the process work for you.
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