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Lead AI Engineer

United Kingdom, London · Job Posted June 17, 2026
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We are seeking a highly experienced AI Lead who combines deep technical expertise with team leadership. In this role, you will design, build, and maintain AI/ML capabilities, models, and LLM-powered solutions that power our products and customer experiences. You will lead a squad of AI engineers and data scientists, ensuring high-quality delivery while fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement. Working closely with product managers and engineering leadership, you will guide architectural decisions, support delivery excellence, and ensure AI solutions are scalable, reliable, and impactful. This is a hands-on leadership role, with approximately 70% focused on technical delivery and 30% on team leadership and process optimisation.

Job Responsibility

  • Design, build, deploy scalable AI/ML models, APIs, LLM-based solutions (e.g., agents, chatbots)
  • Ensure solutions are secure, reproducible, aligned with product requirements
  • Drive best practices in model development, evaluation, deployment
  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams
  • Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives
  • Drive continuous improvement in team processes and delivery efficiency
  • Own technical direction and architectural integrity of AI/ML solutions
  • Lead design discussions and align with wider engineering strategy
  • Investigate and resolve issues across models, data pipelines, AI systems
  • Lead incident response for production outages
  • Work closely with Product Managers to refine and prioritise AI/ML initiatives
  • Conduct code and model reviews
  • Champion best practices in testing, documentation, scalability
  • Lead estimation for AI/ML experimentation and delivery
  • Stay up to date with advancements in AI/ML, LLMs, engineering practices
  • Mentor and support engineers and data scientists
  • Communicate clearly across technical and non-technical stakeholders

Requirements

  • Deep technical expertise in AI/ML, LLMs, and team leadership
  • Experience designing, building, deploying scalable AI/ML models, APIs, LLM-based solutions (e.g., agents, chatbots)
  • Proficiency in Agile delivery, Scrum ceremonies, sprint planning
  • Strong technical architecture and decision-making skills
  • Ability to lead incident response and production issue resolution
  • Experience collaborating with product managers and stakeholders
  • Knowledge of best practices in testing, documentation, scalability
  • Mentor and coach engineers and data scientists
  • Excellent communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders

What we offer

  • 25 Days Annual leave, increasing to 26 days after 12 months
  • Enhanced Company Pension (Matched up to 5% & Salary Sacrifice)
  • Healthcare Cashplan with Medicash
  • Private Healthcare with Aviva
  • Life Insurance with AIG
  • Happl benefit platform with pre-negotiated discounts (entertainment, food, fitness)
  • Stock / Equity
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