Lead AI Engineer
Lead AI Engineer - Modernisation & Transformation
- Lead AI Engineer
- Up to £170,000 per annum
- London Area (Hybrid - 3/wk)
- Strong Software Engineering Fundamentals
Futureheads are engaged exclusively on a search for a Lead AI Engineer working on a significant enterprise AI modernisation and transformation programme.
This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who combines deep software engineering experience with genuine, production-level experience using AI across development.
The role:
- Building AI-assisted software engineering workflows, including coding agents and agent orchestration
- Designing evaluation, testing and quality frameworks for AI-generated code
- Building and evolving distributed, high-volume, resilient systems
- Working across AWS, cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD and observability
- Reviewing and challenging AI-generated code, with engineering judgement remaining central
- Developing the guardrails, validation and human oversight required to use AI reliably in production
- Contributing to architecture and engineering standards across a complex technology environment
We're looking for:
- Highly experienced senior+ software engineering experience
- A polyglot background, with Go, Java or TypeScript particularly relevant
- A strong track record building complex, enterprise-scale distributed systems
- Deep experience across cloud, architecture, CI/CD and production engineering
- Proven use of AI meaningfully across the software development lifecycle
- Experience with AI-generated code, coding agents, agentic workflows, evaluation or AI-assisted development
- Strong engineering judgement around quality, security, resilience and failure modes
- Someone who remains genuinely hands-on and technically close to the work
This isn't an ML research role or a people-management position. It's an opportunity for an experienced software engineer with strong fundamentals to help shape what AI-first software engineering looks like at enterprise scale.
If this sounds relevant, apply below for more details.
Lead AI Engineer - Modernisation & Transformation