Chief AI Architect for Frontier LLMs & AGI Platforms

Durlston Partners; Greater London; On-site; GBP 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Durlston Partners in London is seeking a senior AI leader to architect and execute a strategy for frontier AI systems. You will lead a cross-functional team spanning research, engineering, safety and product to push the boundaries of what AI can do.

You will hire and retain top talent while keeping the organization efficient, safe, and enterprise-ready, translating ambitious theoretical work into scalable, real-world impact.

Qualifications

• Experience leading AI research and engineering teams.
• Proven track record building large AI models or platforms.
• Strong strategic vision for AI development.

Responsibilities

• Lead the AI organization across research, engineering, safety and product.
• Hire brilliant humans and help them stay brilliant.
• Keep the team lean, mean and computationally efficient.
• Own the model roadmap, architecture, training and scale.
• Dream in AGI: world models, agents and planning systems.
• Build an AI platform that works in real world, safely and at scale.
• Be the grown-up in the room and represent AI work to investors and partners.

Skills

AI leadership experience

Large AI models / platforms

Strategic AI vision

Job description

Durlston Partners in London is seeking a senior AI leader to architect and execute a strategy for frontier AI systems. You will lead a cross-functional team spanning research, engineering, safety and product to push the boundaries of what AI can do.

You will hire and retain top talent while keeping the organization efficient, safe, and enterprise-ready, translating ambitious theoretical work into scalable, real-world impact.