Lead AI Engineer
Location
london, england
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Engineering
Posted
June 08, 2026
The Role
We are looking for a Lead AI Engineer to drive the technical evolution of our AI-first platform and serve as our resident expert. You won't just be tuning hyperparameters in a notebook; you will be a core software engineer architecting the complex systems that make AI useful in production.
In the immediate future, your time will be split between crafting complex AI processing architectures (40%) and hands‑on data/backend engineering (40%), with the rest spent doing whatever is needed to ship. As we mature, your focus will shift toward closing the loop: using real‑user data to optimize the platform via online evaluation and targeted, data‑driven models.
What You’ll Do
- Architect & Engineer AI Systems: You won’t just call an API; you will build robust processing architectures that leverage off‑the‑shelf LLMs, RAG pipelines, and context engineering to solve hard problems. You will benchmark these systems rigorously to...