Lead AI Engineer

Lead AI Engineer focuses on we're partnered with a leading global management and technology consultancy seeking a talented lead ai engineer to join their technology delivery team in london.

What the role involves

• We're partnered with a leading global management and technology consultancy seeking a talented Lead AI Engineer to join their Technology Delivery team in London.
• Deliver next-generation AI systems at the heart of some of the world's most complex financial institutions.
• Building agentic workflows that connect AI agents to live data sources and APIs, drawing on prompt engineering and RAG to drive accuracy and relevance.
• Solid Python engineering skills, with a proven ability to build and ship backend systems and APIs.
• We encourage underrepresented talent to apply to all our roles & support accessibility needs.

Skills and requirements

• A strong record of taking LLMs and multi-modal models from development through to production, with real experience of operating at scale.
• Hands-on knowledge of MLOps, cloud-native infrastructure, and the observability practices that keep AI systems performing in the real world.
• Practical experience with agentic frameworks such as LangChain or LlamaIndex.

Candidate fit

• technical judgement, safe working habits, careful diagnostics, and practical problem-solving

Additional role context

• Known for their entrepreneurial culture and deep expertise across financial services, this is an exceptional opportunity to architect.
• Designing and delivering autonomous AI systems that bring together multi-modal LLMs.
• Optimising and shipping large language and multi-modal models into production, balancing performance, latency, and reliability at enterprise scale.