AI Solution Engineer

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working style

Bonus package

Job summary

Playtech, a leading AI-focused technology team within a regulated gaming environment, is hiring AI Solutions Engineers to turn ideas into practical AI tools and solutions that scale across the business. Join the Central AI Team to build reusable patterns and drive responsible AI adoption across multiple units.

The roles require hands-on AI/ML/LLM development, API design, and a delivery-focused mindset in a large, regulated landscape. Hybrid work and a strong governance focus are offered.

Qualifications

• Strong interest in AI, especially enterprise AI solutions.
• Hands-on engineering background with building and deploying AI/ML/LLM systems.
• Experience designing platform-level capabilities (APIs, SDKs, shared services).
• Comfortable working across teams, mentoring others, and partnering with stakeholders.
• Practical understanding of AI tooling: LLM APIs, vector stores, RAG, evals, agent frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Build practical AI tools, prototypes, and applications that improve workflows, products, and productivity.
• Create reusable patterns, templates, and best practices for AI adoption across Playtech.
• Design agentic workflows that automate tasks, use APIs, and support complex processes.
• Stay current with AI trends and turn insights into demos, workshops, and recommendations.
• Partner with teams to turn ideas into real solutions and support AI adoption hands-on.
• Drive efficiency and productivity through AI across multiple business units.
• Improve solution quality, cost, and performance through better design and optimisation.
• Identify and mitigate AI risks, ensuring safe and responsible use.
• Contribute to AI standards, governance, and best practices.
• Share knowledge, mentor others, and raise the overall AI engineering bar.

Skills

AI interest

Engineering background

Platform design

Python

Mentoring others

Tools

Terraform

Git

Cursor

Job description

Founded in 1999, the company has a premium listing on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and is focused on regulated and regulating markets across its B2B business. Byleveragingits proprietary technology, Playtech delivers innovative products and services to ensure a safe,engagingand entertaining gaming experience.

As the gaming industry's leading technology company, it combines business intelligence-driven software, services, content, and platform technology to drive excellence and innovation across the sector. Read more about who we are and what we do here: www.playtechpeople.com and www.playtech.com

Here at Playtech, we genuinely believe that people are our biggest asset. Diverse thoughts, experiences, and individual characteristics enrich our work environment and lead to better business decisions. Embracing differences andmaintainingtransparency in our processes is the core of Playtech's overall commitment to responsible business practices.

Ready to level up your career?

We’rehiringAI Solutions Engineerswho enjoy turning ideas into practical solutions, experimenting with the latest tools, and solvingreal businessproblems.We are currently filling three roles.
This is not about theory-it’sabout building AI that works in the real world!

Job Description

• Build practical AI tools, prototypes, and applications that improve workflows, products, and productivity.
• Create reusable patterns, templates, and best practices for AI adoption across Playtech.
• Design agentic workflows that automate tasks, use APIs, and support complex processes.
• Stay current with AI trends and turn insights into demos, workshops, and recommendations.
• Partner with teams to turn ideas into real solutions and support AI adoption hands-on.
• Drive efficiency and productivity through AI across multiple business units.
• Improve solution quality, cost, and performance through better design and optimisation.
• Identifyand mitigate AI risks, ensuring safe and responsible use.
• Contribute to AI standards, governance, and best practices.
• Share knowledge, mentor others, and raise the overall AI engineering bar.

Qualifications

• Have a strong interest in AI, especially enterprise AI solutions,andgenuine enthusiasm to learn and keep pace with the latest developmentsand trends.
• Bring a strong engineering background, with hands-on experience building and deploying AI, ML, or LLM-based systems.
• Have experience designing platform-level capabilities (APIs, SDKs, shared services) that other engineering teams consume.
• Are comfortable working across teams,explaining trade-offs, mentoring others, and partnering withvarious stakeholders.
• Have a practical understanding of modern AI tooling: LLM APIs, vector stores, RAG, evals, agent frameworks,anddeveloper assistants such as Cursor.
• Understand software architecture and version control (Git),whether from a development background or equivalent hands-on AI experience.
• Bring a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset; comfortable in a large, regulated, multi-product engineering environment.
• Familiarity with Google Cloud AI services (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, ADK)
• AI evaluation or AI security experience.
• Cloud DevOps or Terraform experience.
• Prior experience in iGaming, fintech, or another regulated industry.
• AI governance experience or interest.
• Coding experience, especially in Python

Thrive in a culture that values…

• Ownership and accountabilitywhere you take responsibility for delivery, operations, and outcomes.
• Proactive collaboration acrossthebusiness units and teams globally.
• Innovation with responsibility,encouraging improvement whilemaintainingstrong governance and compliance.
• Versatile and exciting challenges that keep you going and growing.
• Hybrid working style – work in our modern and comfortable office as well as work from home office.
• Neat benefits & bonuspackage.
  

Additional Information

CENTRAL AI TEAM

The team is Playtech’s AI Centre of Excellence, driving AI adoption across the business. Operating at the intersection of platform engineering, solution delivery, and governance, the team builds shared capabilities while enabling business units to apply AI safely and effectively. With 80+ use cases already in progress, this is a unique opportunity to work on real enterprise challenges usingcutting-edgetechnologies. Joining now means shaping how AI scales across a global organisation and influencing solutions used by thousands of colleagues and millions of players. Backed by strong executive support, AI is a key strategic priority at Playtech, offering high visibility and long-term impact.

Playtech is an equal opportunities employer. Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We celebrate differences and encourage everyone to be themselves at work.

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