Director, Multimodal AI Engineering - Hybrid London

G2; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

G2 is seeking a Software Engineering Director, Multimodal AI Products, to lead the core team building multimodal AI features for buyers and sellers in the software marketplace. You’ll drive architecture, design, and production delivery of agent-driven experiences using frontier models and agent-first workflows.

The role is hybrid in London, with onsite presence 1-2 days a week. You will mentor engineers, shape technical direction, and partner with product owners to translate strategy into

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional programming experience in backend and application environments.
• 2+ years of experience directly managing engineers.
• Expert-level proficiency in Python or TypeScript/Javascript; strong working knowledge of modern backend & web application frameworks like FastAPI, Node, React, or Rails.
• Direct experience applying multimodal (audio, image) AI in content production or generation workflows.
• Hands-on experience building AI and agent-powered features using frontier models from OpenAI, Google, and others beyond text generation use cases to include multimodal (image, audio) generation.
• Direct experience refining product requirements in collaboration with a product owner.
• Regular use of coding agent harnesses like Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, or Pi as part of the daily software development workflow.
• BS/BA degree in related field.
• Based in London or surrounding areas and able to work on-site 1-2 days a week in the London office.

Responsibilities

• Contribute across the full software stack to deliver agent-driven user journeys to production, owning implementation quality from architecture to release.
• Design and build features driven by frontier models, with prompting, context, tools, and model reasoning to generate visual and audio experiences.
• Apply software engineering and system design principles to produce solutions that are observable, maintainable, scalable, and production ready.
• Validate solutions against functional requirements using evals and tracing to ensure content and experience quality is measured and monitored through metrics measured in CI and production.
• Help drive product definition: ideate, explore, and prototype with stakeholders, then cut down possible options to arrive at deliverable, but well-rounded solutions.
• Help conceive and ship features & MVP iterations early in the product definition phase that directly advance high-visibility organizational goals.
• Partner with product owners to identify what technology makes possible, and what makes implementing a given product or feature hard. Bring that perspective into project scoping and prioritization.
• You will facilitate the growth and mentorship of a core team of engineers, and be a source of technical leadership and subject matter expertise on multimodal AI for them.

Skills

Python

TypeScript/JavaScript

Backend frameworks

Multimodal AI

AI features

Leadership

Product requirements

Coding agents

Education

BS/BA degree

Tools

FastAPI

Node.js

React

Rails

Claude Code

Codex

Opencode

Pi

Job description

G2 is seeking a Software Engineering Director, Multimodal AI Products, to lead the core team building multimodal AI features for buyers and sellers in the software marketplace. You’ll drive architecture, design, and production delivery of agent-driven experiences using frontier models and agent-first workflows.

The role is hybrid in London, with onsite presence 1-2 days a week. You will mentor engineers, shape technical direction, and partner with product owners to translate strategy into