AI Technical Lead - Contract

AI Technical Lead | Generative AI & Machine Learning

12-Month Contract | £500–£700 per day | Outside IR35 | London

167 Solutions is working with an organisation looking to appoint an experienced AI Technical Lead to lead the design and delivery of production-ready Generative AI and Machine Learning solutions.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who can operate across AI strategy, architecture and engineering, while still being comfortable getting involved in the technology.

You will take technical ownership of AI initiatives from initial concept through to production, working with engineering, product and business stakeholders to build scalable AI solutions.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Leading the technical design and delivery of Generative AI and Machine Learning solutions
• Designing enterprise-grade LLM, RAG and AI agent architectures
• Building and integrating conversational, voice-to-text and speech-based AI solutions
• Developing AI applications using commercial and open-source models
• Working with ElevenLabs and other voice AI / speech technologies
• Designing solutions across AWS and GCP
• Building AI services using AWS Bedrock
• Evaluating and integrating foundation models and LLM platforms
• Building APIs, data pipelines and integrations between AI services and existing enterprise systems
• Leading technical decisions around scalability, performance, security and AI governance
• Taking AI prototypes and PoCs through to reliable production environments
• Providing technical leadership and mentoring to AI and software engineering teams
• Working directly with senior technical and business stakeholders

We are particularly interested in candidates with experience across:

• Generative AI
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• AI Agents and Agentic AI
• Multi-agent systems
• Voice AI
• Speech-to-text / text-to-speech
• ElevenLabs
• AWS Bedrock
• Amazon SageMaker
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Vertex AI
• Python
• FastAPI / APIs
• LangChain / LangGraph
• Vector databases
• Embeddings and semantic search
• Hugging Face / open-source AI models
• Prompt engineering
• Model evaluation and optimisation
• MLOps / LLMOps
• Docker / Kubernetes
• CI/CD
• Cloud architecture
• AI security, governance and responsible AI

You are likely to have previously worked as an:

AI Technical Lead, Lead AI Engineer, Generative AI Lead, AI Architect, Principal AI Engineer, Machine Learning Lead, Staff AI Engineer or AI Engineering Lead.

You should be comfortable operating at both strategic and hands-on technical levels. This is not a role for someone who only wants to manage delivery. We are looking for someone capable of understanding the technology in depth, challenging technical decisions and helping engineering teams actually build and deploy AI products.

Role: AI Technical Lead

Location: London

Contract: 12 months

Day Rate: £500–£700 per day

IR35: Outside IR35

If you have delivered production Generative AI solutions, particularly involving LLMs, AI agents, voice AI, ElevenLabs, AWS Bedrock or GCP, we would be keen to hear from you.

Apply through 167 Solutions for a confidential discussion.