Principal AI Architect

Aveni UK
Edinburgh
2 months ago
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Aveni is an award-winning technology company. We use advanced AI to enable scalable efficiency for financial services companies, combining world-leading Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Model (LLM) expertise with deep financial services domain experience to drive enterprise-wide productivity. Aveni harnesses the power of voice to drive unprecedented efficiency and oversight. We’re using the latest in AI to automate and innovate, empowering businesses to achieve exceptional productivity and compliance outcomes.

Summary

We are looking for a Principal AI Architect to drive the design and implementation of cutting-edge AI architectures. This role is ideal for a technical leader with deep expertise in AI, LLMs, and autonomous systems, who thrives on solving complex challenges in a fast-paced, innovative environment. You will shape the strategic direction of AI systems, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure alignment between AI capabilities and business objectives. If you have a passion for building scalable, intelligent solutions that push the boundaries of AI, we’d love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

  1. Design and develop scalable AI architecture, including LLM integration, APIs, and agentic modules.
  2. Define the technical roadmap for AI systems, ensuring high availability, security, and performance.
  3. Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and software engineers to optimize model deployment and infrastructure.
  4. Establish best practices for AI/ML pipelines, including data ingestion, model training, and inference.
  5. Research and integrate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and methodologies.
  6. Ensure compliance with regulatory and ethical AI standards.

Requirements

  1. Extensive experience in software architecture, with a focus on AI/ML systems.
  2. Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and GCP) for AI/ML workloads.
  3. Hands-on experience with LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, etc.) and fine-tuning techniques.
  4. Proficiency in designing and implementing API-driven architectures.
  5. Experience with vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and multimodal AI systems.
  6. Familiarity with AI orchestration tools (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, Ray, Dask).
  7. Understanding of MLOps and CI/CD pipelines for AI/ML models.
  8. Knowledge of security best practices for AI applications.
  9. Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
  10. Ability to mentor and guide engineering teams on AI best practices.
  11. Ability to work with academics and translate key technical progress to senior business stakeholders.

Benefits

  1. A collaborative and innovative work environment with awesome career growth opportunities.
  2. 34 days holiday plus your birthday off (inclusive of bank holidays).
  3. Share options – we believe in shared success.
  4. Skills development – continuous learning is at our core, expect the development to be front and centre of everything you do.
  5. Remote and flexible working – remote, co-working spaces, or a mix of both.
  6. Life insurance, income protection, and private health care.
  7. Freebies and discounts at a range of retailers.
  8. Emotional wellbeing (Employee assistance programme provides access to 24/7 employee counselling and emotional support).
  9. Cycle to work scheme.
  10. Pension scheme (employer contribution matched up to 5%).

Join Us in Making a Difference

At Aveni, we believe that diversity drives innovation. We're committed to building a team that reflects the diverse communities we serve and creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best work. If you're passionate about leveraging technology to drive positive change and want to be part of a team that's shaping the future of financial services, we'd love to hear from you. We know that some people are likely to only apply where they meet 100% of requirements, but we’d like to hear from you anyway. Apply now to join us on our mission to transform the financial services industry through AI!

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