Frontend AI Engineer — Data & AI Interfaces

McLaren Automotive Ltd; Woking; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days’ holiday

Enhanced company pension scheme

Discretionary annual bonus

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Sabbatical after two years’ service

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

McLaren Automotive is seeking an experienced frontend/AI software engineer to design, build, and operate full-stack, AI-enabled software with a strong frontend focus. You’ll create chat interfaces, dashboards, and internal tools on cloud platforms, collaborating with Product Development, Manufacturing, or Commercial teams.

You will work at the intersection of polished front-ends and the AI integration layer, deploying on cloud infrastructure and ensuring secure, scalable delivery across

Qualifications

• Experience building AI-enabled web apps with strong frontend focus.
• Ability to integrate frontends with AI platforms and streaming capabilities.
• Experience shipping end-to-end features in agile sprints; product mindset required.
• Familiarity with governance, security, and data residency in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain responsive, accessible, high-performance web applications and AI-enabled interfaces, including chat UIs, streaming responses, dashboards, and interactive tools.
• Build AI-enabled UX that is transparent and trustworthy: token-by-token streaming, source citations, confidence indicators, human-in-the-loop review and correction, safety warnings, and graceful error/fallback states.
• Integrate frontends with the McLaren AI platforms, handle streaming, token limits, rate limits, and retries.
• Build and maintain backend services and APIs that support AI-powered features and connect to data products and source systems.
• Deliver data and AI products through the lifecycle, from POC and POI to MVP and production, connecting to source systems and downstream consumers at every integration boundary.
• Own the infrastructure your services run on: infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, containerisation, and observability and deployment.
• Contribute to AI evaluation and quality: build and run automated evals and regression tests and use observability tooling to track latency, token usage, and failure modes.
• Apply governance and security as code: ownership, access controls, lineage, quality checks, auth, least privilege, and encryption, scaled by product maturity.
• Champion McLaren-controlled infrastructure and data residency by default and drive adoption of AI tools.
• Plan and deliver work in agile sprints, balancing exploratory R&D with production-grade delivery. Give honest estimates and flag scope risk early.

Skills

Python (FastAPI)

Node.js

REST APIs

SQL

PostgreSQL

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

Web performance

CI/CD

Git

AWS GenAI-on-EKS

Figma

Tools

Redis/Valkey

Terraform/Helm

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

McLaren Automotive is seeking an experienced frontend/AI software engineer to design, build, and operate full-stack, AI-enabled software with a strong frontend focus. You’ll create chat interfaces, dashboards, and internal tools on cloud platforms, collaborating with Product Development, Manufacturing, or Commercial teams.

You will work at the intersection of polished front-ends and the AI integration layer, deploying on cloud infrastructure and ensuring secure, scalable delivery across