Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Ocho; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Travel expenses covered

Upskilling investment

Job summary

Ocho is seeking a Senior AI engineering leader to deploy and scale AI/ML models in production for healthcare and public sector clients across the UK. You will act as the senior technical voice on complex projects, lead multidisciplinary teams, and drive modern AI engineering practices.

The role requires consulting with senior stakeholders, contributing to bids, and ensuring responsible AI throughout delivery; UK national residency and SC clearance required.

Qualifications

• Proven track record deploying AI/ML models in production at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead the deployment and serving of AI and ML models in production at significant scale.

Skills

AI leadership

GenAI/LLMs

Python development

CI/CD

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS)

Docker

Kubernetes

MLOps

Stakeholder management

Consulting with clients

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

AWS

Job description

• Senior AI engineering leadership role at one of the UK’s leading AI and Data businesses
• Production ML and GenAI delivery for major healthcare and public sector clients
• UK wide, client site up to 3 days per week
• Salary £90,000 to £120,000
• SC clearance required

About the Company

Our client is a leading digital technology consultancy recognised as one of the UK’s foremost AI and data businesses, with a decade-long track record of delivering production-grade AI solutions across government, healthcare, defence and commercial sectors. Their 150-strong AI and Data Practice is trusted by Microsoft, AWS and others to deliver advanced solutions at citizen scale, and they are pioneers in responsible AI, having authored the UK government’s AI Cyber Security Code of Practice implementation guide.

The Role

This is an engineering role, not a data science role. You will deploy and serve ML models in production at significant scale, act as the most senior technical person on complex client projects and lead multi-disciplinary engineering teams across the full solution. Alongside delivery, you will bring genuine consulting capability, managing senior client relationships, contributing to bids and tenders and spotting commercial opportunities. Healthcare is a major growth area and early work may involve pipeline building before moving into full delivery. This role suits a technically exceptional, client-facing AI engineer who is as comfortable leading a project as they are reviewing an architecture.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the deployment and serving of AI and ML models in production at significant scale
• Act as technical lead across the full solution, leading software and platform engineers as well as the AI component
• Drive adoption of modern AI engineering approaches including RAG, agentic AI, model evaluation and drift detection
• Engage with senior and C-level client stakeholders on architecture, delivery management and commercial opportunities
• Contribute to bids, tenders and pre-sales activity as a credible technical voice
• Ensure responsible AI principles and engineering best practices are embedded throughout delivery
• Manage, coach and develop a team of engineers, setting standards and fostering a culture of excellence

What You’ll Need

• Proven track record deploying and serving AI and ML models in production at significant scale
• Traditional ML experience across classic ML, computer vision, reinforcement learning and MLOps, as well as GenAI including LLMs, RAG and agentic AI, with experience predating the GenAI era
• Technical leadership across a full solution, leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams
• Strong client-facing consulting ability including senior stakeholder management, delivery management and commercial awareness
• Strong Python and engineering practice including CI/CD, testing and code reviews
• Experience with Azure and/or AWS, Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience managing, coaching and developing engineers
• SC clearable: UK national with five years UK residency
• Healthcare or public sector delivery background
• Consultancy experience
• Existing SC clearance
• Experience with LLM fine-tuning or distillation, vector databases and semantic search
• Familiarity with ISO 42001 or AI compliance frameworks
• Experience shaping AI offerings and supporting pre-sales

Why Apply?

• Salary of £90,000 to £120,000
• Work at the cutting edge of AI delivery on some of the UK’s most significant public sector programmes
• Join a 150-strong AI and Data Practice with a dedicated talent development lead and strong upskilling investment
• Healthcare is one of the biggest growth areas in the practice, with further roles across other sectors in the pipeline
• Two stage interview process with no technical test
• Client site travel expenses covered in full