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🚀 AI Engineering Tech Lead | Energy Trading & Shipping | London Hybrid | 6 Month Contract
Start Date - ASAP | Rate - £600 - £650/ Day
We're supporting a global energy trading organisation looking for an experienced AI Engineering Tech Lead to join their Innovation team and drive the development of cutting-edge AI solutions across trading and shipping operations. This is a hands-on leadership role combining AI engineering, stakeholder engagement, and commercial decision-making. You'll work directly with traders, analysts, and business leaders to identify opportunities, build AI Proofs of Concept (PoCs), and scale successful solutions into production.
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead a portfolio of AI and GenAI Proofs of Concept from idea through to production
- Build and deploy:
- LLM-powered applications
- Agentic AI solutions
- RAG architectures
- AI-driven workflow automation
- Market data and trading system integrations
- Work closely with trading desks and front-office stakeholders to solve real business problems
- Define success metrics, business value, and scale-or-stop decisions
- Establish engineering best practices around testing, monitoring, evaluation, security, and governance
- Lead a small engineering team and collaborate with senior business stakeholders
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What We're Looking For
- 8+ years in Software Engineering, AI Engineering, or Machine Learning Engineering
- Strong Python development background
- Experience building production-grade AI/LLM applications
- Expertise with RAG, Agents, Prompt Engineering, and AI evaluation frameworks
- Azure or AWS cloud experience
- Strong understanding of APIs, SQL, data pipelines, and market data
- Proven track record taking AI solutions from PoC to production
- Experience leading teams and managing senior stakeholders
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Highly Desirable
- ⭐ Commodities Trading, Energy Trading, or Shipping experience
- ⭐ Experience working directly with traders, front-office teams, quants, or market analysts
- ⭐ Knowledge of trading platforms such as Endur, Allegro, or similar trading/risk systems
- ⭐ Understanding of market data, P&L, pricing, risk, and trading operations
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