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Lead AI Engineer
London (Hybrid) | Up to £110,000 + 15% Bonus + Excellent Benefits
This is an opportunity to join a business investing heavily in AI and automation, where you will play a key role in shaping and delivering production-grade Generative AI solutions at scale. Working across high-impact initiatives, you will have the autonomy to influence technical strategy, own solution delivery, and drive measurable business outcomes.
The Company
They are a well-established, technology-driven organisation undergoing significant AI transformation. With strong executive sponsorship and a growing pipeline of AI initiatives, they are embedding AI into critical business processes to improve customer experience, operational efficiency, and decision-making.
You will join a newly established AI function within a wider engineering and MLOps environment, working alongside experienced engineers to deliver innovative, enterprise-scale AI products. The team operates in a fast-paced, collaborative setting where technical expertise and commercial impact are highly valued.
The Role
As a Lead AI Engineer, you will take ownership of the design, architecture, and delivery of AI solutions from concept through to production.
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Responsibilities
- Leading the end-to-end delivery of Generative AI and agentic AI solutions
- Designing and building LLM-powered applications and intelligent automation tools
- Making key architecture, tooling, and platform decisions across multiple initiatives
- Evaluating build versus buy approaches and recommending scalable solutions
- Establishing engineering standards, reusable frameworks, and best practices
- Ensuring AI systems are production-ready through monitoring, evaluation, governance, and observability
- Working closely with engineering, security, data protection, and business stakeholders
- Providing technical leadership and mentoring across AI workstreams
- Driving AI initiatives that deliver measurable operational and commercial value
Your Skills & Experience
You will demonstrate strong commercial experience in:
- Delivering Generative AI solutions into production environments
- Leading AI projects end-to-end, from discovery through deployment
- Designing scalable AI architectures within enterprise environments
- Building LLM-powered applications, RAG solutions, and agent-based systems
- Software engineering fundamentals, including APIs, distributed systems, and cloud platforms
- Technical decision-making in fast-moving or ambiguous problem spaces
- Working within governance, security, and compliance frameworks
- Influencing stakeholders and communicating complex technical concepts clearly
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Desirable experience includes:
- AWS cloud technologies
- MLOps or LLMOps practices
- Financial services or other regulated industries
- Building reusable AI platforms, frameworks, or internal products
What They Offer
- Salary up to £110,000
- 15% annual bonus
- Hybrid working with flexibility and a strong focus on outcomes
- Generous pension contribution
- Private medical cover
- Enhanced parental leave policies
- Holiday purchase scheme
- The opportunity to influence AI strategy across a growing function
- Exposure to a broad range of cutting-edge Generative AI use cases
- High visibility and genuine ownership of business-critical AI initiatives
How to Apply
If you are an experienced Lead AI Engineer with a proven track record of delivering production-grade Generative AI solutions, apply today to discuss this opportunity in more detail.
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