Lead AI Engineer - AI Adoption & Governance
We are looking for a Lead AI Engineer to drive the adoption of AI engineering practices across a large-scale digital environment.
This is a senior hands-on individual contributor role, focused on setting standards, defining guardrails, evaluating emerging AI capabilities and helping delivery teams adopt practical, reusable approaches across the Software Development Lifecycle.
The role combines AI engineering, technical governance, adoption and stakeholder influence, with an initial focus on landscape assessment, evaluation and standards before moving towards a more embedded, forward-deployed model with delivery teams.
Key Responsibilities
Lead horizon scanning across the AI tooling landscape and translate emerging capabilities into practical opportunities.
Define and promote AI engineering standards, guardrails and reusable adoption patterns across multiple teams.
Build and test agentic AI workflows, including model selection, prompt and harness engineering, tool integration and reusable skills.
Support the adoption of AI across the SDLC, including test generation, code review, documentation, legacy code understanding and modernisation.
Run structured proofs of value with clear hypotheses, baselines, success criteria and evidence-based outcomes.
Embed with delivery teams to prove approaches in real codebases and transition ownership into delivery.
Build capability through coaching, targeted training, practitioner communities and champions networks.
Work across technical, governance, security and commercial functions to remove recurring adoption blockers.
Engage with suppliers and technology providers to identify reusable approaches and reduce fragmented tooling.
Advise where AI adoption should be constrained, paused or stopped due to security, quality or maintainability risks.
Essential Experience
Strong hands-on experience with agentic AI engineering.
Experience building agent workflows, selecting models and integrating agents with tools and services.
Strong prompt engineering and harness engineering experienc...
Lead AI Engineer employer: Sanderson Careers
Join a forward-thinking company that values innovation and collaboration, offering a fully remote role as a Technical Architect. With a strong emphasis on employee growth, you will have access to continuous learning opportunities and the chance to mentor junior colleagues, all while contributing to impactful digital solutions. Our inclusive work culture fosters creativity and teamwork, making it an excellent environment for professionals looking to make a meaningful difference in technology.
