An established, product-led technology business is investing in AI, with an ambitious roadmap of new features and capabilities planned across its platform.

The platform is already making a meaningful difference to people's everyday lives, with technology playing a central role in delivering valuable, personalised experiences. The next stage of development will focus on using AI to make the product even more intelligent, accessible and effective for its users.

This creates an opportunity for a Lead AI Engineer to take ownership of AI development, shape the technical direction and establish AI engineering capability across the organisation.

Working alongside an experienced engineering team, the position combines hands-on development with technical leadership, taking AI-powered features from initial concept through to production.

Rather than joining an established AI function, there's genuine scope to influence architecture, introduce engineering standards and help shape how AI is developed and delivered across the business.

The role will involve making technical decisions around LLM integration, retrieval systems, model selection and wider system architecture, ensuring solutions are reliable, scalable and commercially viable.

There will also be a strong focus on AI evaluation, monitoring, security and cost management, alongside mentoring existing engineers and helping develop their AI capabilities.

• This is a hands-on technical leadership role without direct reports initially, offering the opportunity to lead AI development while remaining closely involved in engineering.