Lead AI Engineer

Lead AI Engineer London (Hybrid), competitive salary between £120,000 and £140,000 plus benefits

This is a rare opportunity to step into a hands on AI leadership role within a small, high impact innovation lab. You will play a critical role in shaping how advanced AI capabilities are explored, prototyped and brought closer to real world products, with genuine influence over technical direction during a pivotal period for the team.

The Company

They are a recognised organisation operating at the intersection of content, technology and insight, with a strong reputation for intellectual rigour and independence. Their work reaches a large audience and supports individuals and organisations in understanding complex global change. The business is investing significantly in AI to explore new ways of delivering value, while maintaining the highest standards of quality and trust. A dedicated AI Lab has been created to push beyond the existing roadmap and experiment with what is next.

The Role

As Lead AI Engineer, you will provide senior technical leadership within the AI Lab, taking ownership of complex engineering decisions and hands on delivery.

• Provide technical leadership and continuity within the AI Lab during a period of team transition
• Design, build and iterate on AI driven prototypes across text, audio, voice, video and multimodal experiences
• Lead experimentation with new models, tools and workflows, assessing their suitability for different use cases
• Shape pragmatic architectures that balance speed, flexibility, quality and future scalability
• Help identify where advances in AI can create distinctive value for audiences and products
• Contribute to the longer term technical direction of the Lab, influencing what capabilities to build or scale
• Support and mentor other technical contributors where appropriate

Your Skills and Experience

• Strong hands on experience building modern generative AI systems in production or advanced prototype environments
• Excellent software engineering capability with a pragmatic approach to rapid prototyping
• Experience working with multiple modalities such as text, audio, voice, video or conversational interfaces
• Ability to clearly explain technical concepts to non technical stakeholders
• Experience defining and applying evaluation approaches for AI quality, reliability and usability
• Must have experience working in a content creation environment

What They Offer

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package
• Hybrid working with regular collaboration from a London office
• Generous pension, private healthcare and wellbeing support
• Flexible working benefits including work from anywhere options
• Strong parental leave, annual leave and additional wellbeing days

How to Apply

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