At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the development and launch of innovative AI models, ensuring they meet high standards.
- Company: Join a pioneering AI company shaping the future of technology.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic team environment with exciting challenges and career advancement opportunities.
- Why this job: Be at the forefront of AI innovation and make a real impact in the tech world.
- Qualifications: Strong background in applied AI or machine learning with leadership experience.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Take responsibility for turning EvaEsi's final model development into launched, evaluated, supportable product behaviour.
EvaEsi is a whole new model line, built on the research from Forlais. It is a significant launch, and you can help shape it. This role takes responsibility for the full path a model takes to production: evaluation and release criteria, inference contracts between models and product surfaces, tool and harness behaviour in production, and the capability standards that govern what the product claims and what it declines. You will build and lead the engineers who work beside you, acting as the senior technical voice on model capability across the company.
Qualifications:
- Significant applied AI or machine learning engineering background with substantial production responsibility.
- Able to be the senior technical voice on what a model can and cannot do.
- Comfortable with original architecture and a learning curve rather than the standard playbook.
- Bring an open mind and genuine readiness for a learning curve.
- Results oriented and comfortable taking responsibility for outcomes.
- Willing to adapt and try new ideas.
Nice to have:
- Evaluation systems, benchmarks and release gating for production models.
- Model serving infrastructure, inference optimisation or high-performance distributed systems.
- Tool use, agent harnesses or long-running AI workflows in production.
- Rust, Leptos, observability or production AI workload analysis.
What you will do:
- Lead model readiness, evaluation systems and release criteria for launch.
- Set the standards for what EvaEsi's models can claim, decline and support in public.
- Guide production behaviour across tool use, harnesses, memory, Index and model-facing product surfaces.
- Build and lead the applied AI engineering team around you.
- Work with product, platform, compliance and security so capability claims match evidence.
Lead AI Engineer / Head of Applied AI employer: Forlais Group Ltd
At EvaEsi, we pride ourselves on being an innovative leader in AI technology, offering a dynamic work environment where creativity and collaboration thrive. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through our supportive culture and opportunities for professional development, making us an excellent employer for those looking to make a meaningful impact in the field of applied AI. Located in the United Kingdom, we provide a unique chance to shape cutting-edge products while working alongside a talented team dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what's possible.
