AI Infrastructure Lead: Build In-House Platform

Digital Waffle; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible working

Professional growth opportunities

Leadership path

Job summary

Digital Waffle is seeking an AI Solutions Architect to design and build our in-house AI environment in London and lead the initial AI engineering team. You will own the infrastructure strategy, establish MLOps practices, and collaborate with product and data teams to enable rapid model development and deployment.

This is a senior, hands-on leadership role with a path to grow the team. You will recruit and mentor two mid-level AI engineers, set up scalable compute, and implement robust CI/CD and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in machine learning, data science, or AI system design.
• Proven track record of deploying ML models or LLM-based applications to production.
• Strong programming fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms.
• Hands-on experience with transformers, embeddings, and vector databases.
• Experience running AI workloads on offline or on-premise platforms (non-cloud environments).
• Solid understanding of data pipelines, APIs, and scalable system architecture.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain an in-house AI environment (on-prem or hybrid cloud).
• Design MLOps workflows for training, deploying, and monitoring models.
• Integrate and manage containerized AI engines (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Establish best practices for model versioning, data pipelines, and reproducibility.
• Collaborate with ML and NLP researchers to optimize infrastructure for experimentation.
• Set up CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, and scalable compute infrastructure.
• Lead future recruitment and mentoring of additional AI engineers.

Skills

5+ years ML/AI system design

Production ML deployments

Data structures & algorithms

Transformers embeddings vector DB

On-prem/offline AI workloads

Data pipelines & APIs

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Digital Waffle is seeking an AI Solutions Architect to design and build our in-house AI environment in London and lead the initial AI engineering team. You will own the infrastructure strategy, establish MLOps practices, and collaborate with product and data teams to enable rapid model development and deployment.

This is a senior, hands-on leadership role with a path to grow the team. You will recruit and mentor two mid-level AI engineers, set up scalable compute, and implement robust CI/CD and