Lead AI Engineer - Contract - London - Outside IR35

Lead AI Engineer Contractor

📍 London (3 days per week onsite)

📅 6-Month Initial Contract

💰 Outside IR35

Oliver Bernard are currently working with an AI-first consultancy that is helping some of the UK's most recognised organisations deploy AI solutions into real-world production environments. Following a number of recent project wins, they're looking for a Lead AI Engineer Contractor to join their growing team.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll be responsible for building and scaling enterprise AI applications, guiding engineering teams, and shaping the architecture of modern GenAI platforms.

You'll be involved in:

• Designing and deploying LLM-powered applications
• Building agentic workflows and multi-agent systems
• Developing robust RAG architectures and evaluation frameworks
• Creating scalable APIs and backend services using Python
• Working across cloud platforms to deliver secure, production-ready solutions

Required experience:

✔ Strong commercial experience as a Senior or Lead AI Engineer

✔ Proven track record delivering GenAI products into production

✔ Expertise with Python and modern AI frameworks

✔ Experience with LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI or similar tooling

✔ Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure or GCP)

✔ Comfortable leading technical discussions with both engineers and clients

Apply below for more information.