AI Technical Lead

Delta Controls Inc.; England; Hybrid; GBP 78,000 - 99,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech firm in the UK is seeking an AI Technical Lead to lead a team driving innovative AI technologies. You will be responsible for technical leadership, mentoring developers, and improving AI systems. The ideal candidate has over 7 years of software development experience, particularly with LLMs and AWS. This full-time role offers a hybrid work model, with a competitive salary ranging from $104,000 to $130,000.

Benefits

Flexible hours and scheduling

Competitive total compensation

Wellness programs

Employee-centric culture

Regular company events

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience required.
• Practical experience with LLMs, RAG, and embeddings needed.
• Comfortable working in AWS environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership to AI developers.
• Design and improve multi-agent workflows.
• Collaborate on system design and architecture.

Skills

Software development experience

Experience with LLMs

Debugging skills

Hands-on experience with AWS

Technical documentation

Collaboration

Tools

AWS Lambda

DynamoDB

Amazon Aurora

Amazon S3

Terraform

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About Delta Intelligent Building Technologies (Canada) Inc. (formerly known as Delta Controls)

Delta Intelligent Building Technologies (Canada) Inc. is a leading building controls manufacturer. For over three decades, we have provided innovative building automation solutions for commercial, healthcare, education, and leisure facilities.

Job Summary

We are developing an advanced multi-agent orchestration platform powered by LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and AWS serverless technologies. Our system uses Strands agents, AWS Bedrock, and cloud-native services to deliver intelligent, scalable AI-driven features.

We are seeking an AI Technical Lead who brings deep hands‑on AI experience and strong engineering leadership. In this role, you will guide a growing AI team, shape the technical direction of the platform, and stay hands‑on with coding to solve complex problems and deliver high-quality production features.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands‑on technical leadership and mentor AI developers on writing clean, reliable code and following good engineering practices
• Design and improve multi-agent workflows, LLM features, and RAG pipelines
• Build and maintain backend Python services and AI pipelines
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• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, Software Architects, and other Technical Leads on system design and architecture
• Support the team in designing retrieval pipelines, embedding workflows, and vector search logic
• Maintain knowledge bases and ensure high-quality contextual retrieval
• Participate in architectural discussions and propose improvements
• Ensure scalability, reliability, and operational excellence across AI systems
• Stay current on emerging AI techniques, tools, and industry patterns

Qualifications & Requirements

• 7+ years of software development experience
• Practical experience with LLMs, RAG, embeddings, and vector search
• Hands‑on experience designing or building agentic workflows (Strands or equivalent)
• Familiarity with prompt engineering, model APIs, and production LLM pipelines
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and performance optimization skills
• Experience with code reviews, unit testing, and technical documentation
• Comfortable working in AWS Lambda (building, deploying, logging, debugging)
• Hands‑on experience with DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, Amazon S3, CloudWatch, and IAM
• Understanding of serverless and event‑driven architecture patterns

Assets

• AWS Cloud Experience: Experience designing scalable cloud‑native AI systems, AWS Bedrock (model invocation, agents, vector search), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
• Nice‑to‑Have: Knowledge of RDF, semantic or graph databases; event‑driven architectures; containerization and orchestration (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes); observability and monitoring for AI/ML systems; background in MCP (Model Context Protocol)

Work Location: Hybrid (In-office 3 days per week, subject to change)
City: Surrey
Type: Full‑time, Permanent
Salary: $104,000 - $130,000
This range reflects the minimum and maximum target payable for the base salary of new hires across all Canadian locations. Actual compensation may vary outside range and is dependent on various factors.

Why work for us?

We provide fantastic opportunities to individuals passionate about business and technology. Delta Electronics products are the most energy efficient power products in the industry and our company is perfect for those who want to create, design and build sustainable solutions using massively scalable, big‑data architecture, with a strong focus on building automation. Here are some of the Delta perks you’ll receive from day 1!

• Employee & safety centric culture with the possibility of remote work
• Flexible hours and scheduling available
• Competitive total compensation along with generous vacation allowances
• Vacation leaves
• Wellness - onsite fitness center & company reimbursement for personal gym memberships
• Internal Recognition
• Transit accessible with free onsite parking
• Regular company events such as "Food Truck Fridays", Lunch & Learn and other planned activities