Lead AI Engineer

Lead AI Engineer Hybrid, Liverpool We're working with a business investing heavily in AI and building a dedicated engineering function to deliver production AI solutions across the organisation. This is a rare opportunity to join at an early stage and help shape the architecture, tooling and engineering standards behind their AI capability. You'll work hands-on with modern AI technologies while influencing technical direction, mentoring engineers and helping turn AI ideas into scalable products. What you'll be doing * Build and deploy production AI solutions using Python and modern AI frameworks * Develop LLM applications using RAG, prompt engineering and agentic workflows * Shape AI architecture, tooling and engineering standards * Work across Azure, cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines * Integrate AI solutions into existing platforms through APIs and services * Mentor engineers and support technical decision-making What we're looking for * Strong software engineering background with production AI experience * Python experience * Experience with LLMs, RAG and AI application development * Azure and cloud infrastructure experience * Understanding of APIs, DevOps and scalable systems * Experience influencing technical direction and mentoring engineers This is a chance to join an AI function at the point where key decisions are being made. You'll have genuine ownership over how AI gets built, deployed and scaled. Open on having a conversation?