Lead AI Engineer

Lead AI Engineer

European Ecommerce Group

Up to £150,000 + Bonus + Benefits

London Hybrid or Remote

Our client is a major European ecommerce group operating a portfolio of consumer brands across 90+ international markets. Having already invested heavily in data, technology and digital transformation, the business is now making a significant investment in AI and has launched a brand-new AI Innovation Hub to lead that evolution.

This is a rare opportunity to join at the beginning of that journey and help shape how AI is adopted across a large international ecommerce business.

🟠 The Opportunity

• Be the first AI Engineer hire within the newly established AI Innovation Hub
• You’ll help shape the AI strategy, influence the technical roadmap and build production-grade AI products that solve real business problems.
• Significant ownership and influence from day one
• Greenfield environment with freedom to shape the roadmap
• Exposure to senior leadership and strategic initiatives
• Work across multiple brands, products and business challenges
• Opportunity to build AI products that create real-world impact at scale

🟠 Responsibilities

• Design, build and deploy AI-powered products and applications
• Develop production-grade LLM solutions and agentic workflows
• Build RAG architectures and knowledge retrieval systems
• Integrate AI applications with internal platforms, tools and business systems
• Identify opportunities where AI can create measurable commercial impact
• Partner with senior stakeholders across product, technology and commercial teams
• Help define the long-term AI architecture and engineering standards
• Evaluate emerging technologies and determine where they can create competitive advantage

🟠 Your Experience

• Strong software engineering foundations
• Experience building and deploying AI products into production environments
• Python and modern backend engineering experience
• Experience with LLMs, RAG architectures and agentic AI systems
• MCP or similar protocols for connecting AI systems with tools and external services
• Strong product thinking and commercial awareness
• Experience operating within high-growth, scale-up or rapidly evolving environments
• Ability to balance technical excellence with business outcomes

🟠 Compensation

• Up to £150,000 + Bonus + Benefits
• Hybrid or remote working available (based on candidate preference)

Aperia Search has been exclusively retained to support this appointment. For a confidential discussion or to apply directly, please contact: riaz@aperiasearch.com