Lead AI Engineer - GCP / Machine Learning / AI Agents

💼 Lead AI Engineer - GCP / Machine Learning / AI Agents 💷 £85k - £90k + Up to 15% Bonus + Benefits - Permanent 📍 Remote UK - Flexible remote working model - Occasional travel to the South-East / South London region ✅ Must be Eligible to work in the UK - Cannot Provide Sponsorship We're currently supporting a large consumer-focused organisation undergoing significant investment across AI, Machine Learning \& Cloud Engineering capability. As part of this growth, we're looking to identify an experienced Lead AI Engineer to help shape, build and deliver scalable AI-enabled solutions across the organisation. This role would suit someone with a strong Software Engineering background who has evolved into AI / Machine Learning Engineering and is comfortable operating across both hands-on technical delivery \& technical leadership. Alongside remaining hands-on, you'll help mentor AI Engineers, establish engineering best practice and support the delivery of enterprise-scale AI solutions. Key Responsibilities * Design and develop AI-enabled Applications \& Services * Build scalable AI \& Machine Learning solutions within a GCP environment * Lead the technical direction of AI Engineering initiatives * Provide technical leadership, mentoring and coaching to AI Engineers across the wider team * Help establish engineering standards, best practice and code quality across AI Engineering * Collaborate closely with Digital Products, AI, Data \& business stakeholders * Support the development of AI Agents and intelligent automation capabilities * Drive Engineering best practice across cloud-native AI delivery * Help transition AI Proof of Concepts into secure, scalable production solutions * Contribute towards architecture, experimentation and proof-of-concept initiatives Required Experience * Strong Software Engineering background (Python preferred) * Commercial AI / Machine Learning Engineering experience * Hands-on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience * Experience deploying ML / AI solutions into production environments * Understanding of modern AI frameworks \& LLM ecosystems * Exposure to AI Agents, Agentic AI workflows and/or Google ADK highly desirable * Strong stakeholder engagement \& communication capability * Previous technical leadership, mentoring or experience leading Engineering teams would be highly beneficial Desirable Technologies * GCP / Vertex AI * Gemini * Python * AI Agents / ADK * Machine Learning Frameworks * APIs \& Microservices * Docker / Kubernetes * CI/CD Pipelines * LLM Orchestration Frameworks Additional Information * Bonus potential up to c.15% * Opportunity to join a growing AI capability within a large-scale Enterprise environment * Opportunity to combine hands-on AI Engineering with technical leadership and mentoring * Excellent long-term progression potential as the AI function expands #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEngineering #LeadAIEngineer #MachineLearning #ML #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #AIAgents #LLM #LLMEngineering #VertexAI #GCP #GoogleCloud #Python #CloudEngineering #MachineLearningEngineer #TechJobs #Hiring #RemoteJobs #UKTech #DataEngineering #SoftwareEngineering #DigitalTransformation