Lead AI Engineer

Lead AI Engineer

Full-Time 70000 - 90000 £ / year (est.) No working from home possible
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At a Glance

  • Tasks: Lead the design and deployment of cutting-edge GenAI solutions for a major bank.
  • Company: Join a well-known bank's innovative team focused on AI applications.
  • Benefits: Hybrid work model, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
  • Other info: Dynamic role with a focus on engineering excellence in a regulated environment.
  • Why this job: Shape the future of AI while influencing strategy at a VP level.
  • Qualifications: Hands-on experience with LLMs and AWS; mentoring skills are a plus.

The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.

We’re hiring a Lead AI Engineer (VP) to spearhead a GenAI feature team building production-grade AI applications used daily by thousands of employees with a well-known bank. You'll be part of a dedicated department tasked with replacing the entire current stack with a new agentic stack.

What you’ll do:

  • Lead design, build and deployment of GenAI solutions end-to-end
  • Act as an SME shaping Generative AI strategy
  • Mentor engineers and drive engineering excellence, security and quality
  • Partner with senior stakeholders in a highly regulated environment

What we’re looking for:

  • Hands-on experience with LLMs, prompt optimisation and evaluation
  • AWS experience (Bedrock, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, Lex)
  • Experience delivering AI in regulated or complex organisations
  • Bonus: DevOps, CI/CD, Terraform/CloudFormation, Docker, ECS/EKS
  • Experience with LangGraph, Google ADK

It’s a hybrid role based in London or Knutsford, whatever suits best from your location. If you want to build real AI products at scale and influence strategy at VP level, drop over your CV or contact Adam Whitehurst at Trust in Soda for more info.

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We think you need these skills to ace Lead AI Engineer

Generative AI
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Prompt Optimisation
AWS (Bedrock, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, Lex)
AI Deployment in Regulated Environments
DevOps
CI/CD