AI Lead Engineer - 80% UK Remote (1 day pw Newcastle)

AI Lead Engineer

WFH/Hybrid | One day per week on-site (North East)

We're looking for a Lead AI Engineer to take a hands-on technical role within a major AI transformation programme.You'll design and build production-grade AI solutions, including RAG pipelines, semantic search, vector/embedding infrastructure and generative AI capabilities, integrating them into complex cloud and Legacy environments.

What you'll be doing

• Building and deploying scalable RAG and GenAI solutions
• Developing LLM orchestration and agentic AI workflows
• Leading engineering standards, code reviews and technical delivery
• Implementing AI evaluation, guardrails and Responsible AI controls
• Building secure, observable AI services with CI/CD and MLOps
• Mentoring engineers and transferring knowledge to internal teams

What we're looking for

• Strong Python engineering skills
• Commercial experience with LLMs, RAG, embeddings and vector search
• LangChain, LlamaIndex or similar frameworks
• MLOps/LLMOps and automated AI evaluation
• AWS, Azure or GCP
• Docker, containers and Infrastructure-as-Code
• Experience building secure, production-grade AI systems

Public-sector experience and cloud certifications are desirable complimented by SC clearance and/or eligibility.

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