AI Lead Engineer

Description:

AI Lead Engineer

WFH/Hybrid | Newcastle once per week
We're looking for a Lead AI Engineer to take a hands-on technical role within a major AI transformation programme.You'll design and build production-grade AI solutions, including RAG pipelines, semantic search, vector/embedding infrastructure and generative AI capabilities, integrating them into complex cloud and legacy environments.

What you'll be doing

Building and deploying scalable RAG and GenAI solutions
Developing LLM orchestration and agentic AI workflows
Leading engineering standards, code reviews and technical delivery
Implementing AI evaluation, guardrails and Responsible AI controls
Building secure, observable AI services with CI/CD and MLOps
Mentoring engineers and transferring knowledge to internal teams
What we're looking for

Strong Python engineering skills
Commercial experience with LLMs, RAG, embeddings and vector search
LangChain, LlamaIndex or similar frameworks
MLOps/LLMOps and automated AI evaluation
AWS, Azure or GCP
Docker, containers and Infrastructure-as-Code
Experience building secure, production-grade AI systemsPublic-sector experience and cloud certifications are desirable.

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