AI Enablement Engineering Lead

Skin Analytics Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Share options

Pension with salary sacrifice

25 days + 5 shutdown

Bike to work

Development & social events

Job summary

Skin Analytics Ltd seeks a Senior AI Enablement Engineer to transform how the company builds software. You will enable engineers and teams to maximise AI-assisted development, working with VP Technology, Engineering Managers, and stakeholders to identify opportunities and implement AI-driven automation across the SDLC.

You will shape the engineering operating model, introduce new tools, workflows, agents, and practices to deliver higher value with quality and speed, while hands-on using modern

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering transformation initiatives.
• Hands-on with modern AI engineering tools and agentic workflows.
• Strong coaching, mentoring and communication skills.
• Ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices across the organisation.
• Identify opportunities to automate software delivery processes using AI and agentic tooling.
• Design and implement AI-enabled workflows covering requirements, design, implementation, testing, documentation, deployment and support.
• Establish metrics to measure the impact of AI tooling and automation initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Engineering transformation

Coaching

Communication

Cross-team collaboration

AI engineering

Prompt engineering

Agentic workflows

Software engineering

CI/CD

Tools

Claude Code

Codex

Gemini

Cursor

Windsurf

Job description

Want to join a team of passionate people who want to build a future where no one dies from skin cancer?

About us

Skin Analytics is an award-winning, health tech company that deploys world-leading skin cancer pathways using AI as a medical device, DERM.

Following our recent £15M series B funding, regulatory milestones hit, and doubling from 50 to 100 headcount in 2025, we're ready to scale further internationally, making history for AI in healthcare and the future of dermatology.

We're proud to epitomise AI for good - with a Class III CE mark, DERM is the only AI as a medical device approved to make clinical decisions autonomously in the cancer space, as well as being the first company to receive a NICE recommendation for use across the NHS.*

DERM is deployed at more than 28 NHS organisations where we enable patients to gain significantly quicker access to skin cancer diagnosis. If that's not enough, we also collaborate with some of the largest health insurers to reach patients in their own homes.

We are a team of passionate people on a mission to build a future where no one dies from skin cancer.

About the role:

We are looking for an exceptional Senior AI Enablement Engineer to help transform the way Skin Analytics builds software.

This is a senior role, reporting into our VP of Technology, focused on enabling engineers, teams and the wider business to maximise the value of AI-assisted and agentic software development.

You will work alongside Engineering Managers, Senior Engineers, Product teams and business stakeholders to identify opportunities for AI-driven automation and productivity improvements across the entire software development lifecycle.

You will help define the future engineering operating model at Skin Analytics, introducing new tools, workflows, agents and ways of working that allow our teams to deliver more value with greater quality and speed.

This is a highly hands-on role. We are looking for someone who actively uses modern AI engineering tools every day and has practical experience delivering real software using agentic workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices across the organisation.
• Identify opportunities to automate software delivery processes using AI and agentic tooling.
• Design and implement AI-enabled workflows covering requirements, design, implementation, testing, documentation, deployment and support.
• Act as the subject matter expert for AI-assisted software engineering.
• Create standards, patterns and best practices for the use of AI within Engineering.

Technical Leadership

• Partner with Engineering Managers and Senior Engineers to improve team productivity and effectiveness, whilst maintaining quality and regulatory compliance.
• Coach, mentor and train engineers in the practical use of AI tooling.
• Establish metrics to measure the impact of AI tooling and automation initiatives.

Agentic Systems Development

• Build and maintain internal AI agents and automation solutions, integrating capabilities into our platforms and workflows.
• Evaluate and implement emerging AI tools and technologies.
• Develop reusable prompts, workflows, agent architectures and engineering accelerators.
• Work closely with Platform, DevOps and Security teams to ensure safe and scalable adoption.

Strategic Innovation

• Help shape Skin Analytics’ AI strategy across Engineering and the wider business.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities for competitive advantage.
• Work with leadership to prioritise AI initiatives based on business impact.
• Support the wider organisation in understanding how AI can improve operational efficiency.

Required experience

Leadership and Communication

• Ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience driving engineering transformation initiatives.
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities.
• Comfortable working across multiple teams and disciplines.

AI and Agentic Engineering

• Extensive hands-on experience with modern AI engineering tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor, Windsurf or equivalent.
• Experience designing and implementing agentic workflows into software delivery processes.
• Deep understanding of prompt engineering, context management and agent orchestration techniques.
• Experience evaluating AI tooling and measuring productivity outcomes.
• Understanding of AI governance, security and risk management considerations.

Software Engineering

• Strong software engineering background with significant experience building production systems.
• Understanding of software architecture and system design.
• Experience working within CI/CD environments.

Share options package - all our employees have ownership in the company

Company pension incl. salary sacrifice options

25 days annual leave + 5 day company shutdown in August + bank holidays

Enhanced parental leave - includes adoption & foster

Yellownest Salary Sacrifice Nursery Scheme - save with workplace nursery scheme

Bike to work scheme

Weekly catch-ups, monthly meetings to talk about you, your ambitions and work on your development

Lots of fun social activities!

Our Values

Always Learning

Lead from the Front

Tough and Resilient

The Real Stuff

Skin Analytics embraces and is committed to diversity and equal opportunities. We are dedicated to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. If you need any adjustments during our hiring process, you can indicate that at the next step.

AI usage in our hiring process

If you submit an application to us, you will consent to AI playing a role in your hiring process. No hiring decision is ever made by an algorithm alone. Every AI-generated summary, screening result, or note is reviewed, verified, and, if necessary, corrected by a member of our recruitment team. Humans make the final call on who moves forward and who receives an offer.

You can find more information about how we use AI in our hiring process here.