AI Platform Engineer

Principal AI Platform Engineer

London

This is a standout opportunity to join a digital-first insurer that is scaling an entirely new AI function. You will be the first permanent hire into a growing division, giving you direct ownership of production AI systems, end-to-end agentic automation, and the technical direction of a brand-new platform.

The Company

They are a tech-led insurer transforming how complex home insurance is delivered. Their vision is to become the UK's first fully AI-driven insurer, supported by modern cloud infrastructure and a collaborative product-focused culture.

The Role

You will play a lead role in shaping, building, and scaling their AI platform, working closely with an AI Product Manager and senior leadership. Your work will focus on making AI production-ready, highly scalable, and reliable across the business.

Key responsibilities include:

* Designing and delivering an AI platform that supports large-scale agentic automation and end-to-end claims journeys

* Building robust RAG pipelines, LLM-based systems, and deployment frameworks

* Developing AI agents for claims handling, internal tooling, and customer-facing chat solutions

* Evolving an internal AI assistant and expanding its capabilities across teams

* Working hands-on across cloud infrastructure, observability, evaluation, and optimisation

* Collaborating with engineering, product, and operations teams to take roadmap concepts into production

Your Skills and Experience

* Strong commercial experience in AI engineering or software engineering with a focus on LLMs and production AI systems

* Expertise in deploying AI models and agents at scale, including RAG, embeddings, and LLM tooling

* Hands-on cloud engineering experience, ideally in GCP and its AI ecosystem

* Strong Python engineering ability and experience building production-grade services

* Experience working with vector search, data ingestion, observability, and experimentation frameworks

* A STEM background or equivalent technical capability

What They Offer

* Salary up to 90,000 plus benefits

* Hybrid working with 1-2 days per week in their Sheffield office

* The chance to join as the first hire in a scaling AI division with a 10-role roadmap

* Significant autonomy, influence, and end-to-end ownership of AI platform design

* The opportunity to build cutting-edge agentic systems and production AI from the ground up

How to Apply

If you are excited by the opportunity, please apply with your CV.