At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the design and development of AI solutions while mentoring a team of engineers.
- Company: Join a large consumer-focused organisation investing heavily in AI and Machine Learning.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, up to 15% bonus, flexible remote work, and excellent career progression.
- Other info: Opportunity for hands-on work combined with technical leadership in a dynamic environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in AI engineering while shaping the future of technology.
- Qualifications: Strong software engineering background with experience in AI and GCP.
The predicted salary is between 85000 - 90000 £ per year.
£85k - £90k + Up to 15% Bonus + Benefits - Permanent Remote UK - Flexible remote working model - Occasional travel to the South-East / South London region. Must be eligible to work in the UK - Cannot provide sponsorship.
We're currently supporting a large consumer-focused organisation undergoing significant investment across AI, Machine Learning & Cloud Engineering capability. As part of this growth, we're looking to identify an experienced Lead AI Engineer to help shape, build and deliver scalable AI-enabled solutions across the organisation. This role would suit someone with a strong Software Engineering background who has evolved into AI / Machine Learning Engineering and is comfortable operating across both hands-on technical delivery & technical leadership. Alongside remaining hands-on, you'll help mentor AI Engineers, establish engineering best practice and support the delivery of enterprise-scale AI solutions.
Key Responsibilities- Design and develop AI-enabled Applications & Services
- Build scalable AI & Machine Learning solutions within a GCP environment
- Lead the technical direction of AI Engineering initiatives
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring and coaching to AI Engineers across the wider team
- Help establish engineering standards, best practice and code quality across AI Engineering
- Collaborate closely with Digital Products, AI, Data & business stakeholders
- Support the development of AI Agents and intelligent automation capabilities
- Drive Engineering best practice across cloud-native AI delivery
- Help transition AI Proof of Concepts into secure, scalable production solutions
- Contribute towards architecture, experimentation and proof-of-concept initiatives
- Strong Software Engineering background (Python preferred)
- Commercial AI / Machine Learning Engineering experience
- Hands-on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience
- Experience deploying ML / AI solutions into production environments
- Understanding of modern AI frameworks & LLM ecosystems
- Exposure to AI Agents, Agentic AI workflows and/or Google ADK highly desirable
- Strong stakeholder engagement & communication capability
- Previous technical leadership, mentoring or experience leading Engineering teams would be highly beneficial
- GCP / Vertex AI
- Gemini
- Python
- AI Agents / ADK
- Machine Learning Frameworks
- APIs & Microservices
- Docker / Kubernetes
- CI/CD Pipelines
- LLM Orchestration Frameworks
- Bonus potential up to c.15%
- Opportunity to join a growing AI capability within a large-scale Enterprise environment
- Opportunity to combine hands-on AI Engineering with technical leadership and mentoring
- Excellent long-term progression potential as the AI function expands
Lead AI Engineer - GCP / Machine Learning / AI Agents employer: MACKENZIE JONES IT LIMITED
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Contact Details:
MACKENZIE JONES IT LIMITED Recruitment Team
