Lead AI Engineer

£60,000 to 75,000 GBP

Bonus

Hybrid WORKING

Location: Central London, Greater London - United Kingdom Type: Permanent

Lead AI Engineer

Location: London (Hybrid)

Salary: Up to £75,000 + Bonus + Car Allowance

We're hiring a Lead AI Engineer to join a growing technology team delivering enterprise-scale AI solutions across modern cloud platforms.

This is a hands-on engineering role with leadership responsibility, focused on building and scaling AI-powered products and services using Generative AI, Agentic AI, and modern AI engineering practices.

You'll work closely with engineering, platform, data, and product teams to design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI capabilities within a fast-paced delivery environment.

This is primarily an internal-facing engineering role, so strong technical capability and collaboration skills are more important than consulting or client-facing experience.

The role

You will:

• Design and build scalable AI and GenAI solutions within Azure cloud environments
• Develop intelligent workflows and agentic AI capabilities using modern orchestration frameworks
• Build and maintain AI services, APIs, and backend integrations
• Work closely with Data Engineers, Platform Engineers, Architects, and Product teams to deliver AI solutions into production
• Lead technical delivery across AI engineering initiatives
• Mentor and support junior engineers within the team
• Contribute to engineering standards, reusable patterns, and AI best practices
• Help shape scalable MLOps and AI deployment approaches
• Drive high-quality engineering practices across testing, deployment, monitoring, and optimisation

Tech environment

Key technologies include:

• Python
• Azure
• Databricks
• Generative AI / LLM frameworks
• Agentic AI tooling and orchestration frameworks
• LangChain / LangGraph
• PyTorch and ML libraries
• REST APIs
• Docker and containerisation
• CI/CD pipelines
• Git-based development workflows

What we're looking for

• 4-6 years' experience within Software Engineering, AI Engineering, or Machine Learning Engineering roles
• Strong hands-on Python engineering capability
• Experience building AI or machine learning solutions within production environments
• Strong understanding of Generative AI and modern AI engineering practices
• Exposure to Agentic AI frameworks or autonomous AI workflows
• Experience working with Azure and Databricks
• Good understanding of backend engineering and API development
• Experience collaborating across cross-functional engineering and product teams
• Ability to mentor or support junior engineers
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills

Package

• Salary up to £75,000
• Annual bonus
• Full car allowance
• Hybrid working model
• Strong investment in AI engineering capability and tooling
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge GenAI and Agentic AI initiatives
• Clear progression opportunities within a growing AI engineering function

This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer looking to build real-world AI systems at scale while working within a collaborative and technically strong engineering environment.