Head of AI

Rise Technical Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Private health & dental

Gym allowance

Commuting season ticket loan

Job summary

Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd in London is seeking a Head of AI to lead an AI engineering team and own the end-to-end game generation pipeline. The role combines architecture, strategy and hands-on guidance across LLM-driven systems to scale production-grade content.

You will collaborate with product and engineering to optimise performance while reducing costs, and shape the technical roadmap for a cutting-edge platform in a fast-growing startup.

Qualifications

• Experience leading AI generation systems in production.
• Strong track record building and scaling AI teams.
• Ability to balance technical and product priorities.
• Experience with multi-stage generation, validation and evaluation pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a multidisciplinary AI and engineering team.
• Own the architecture of the end-to-end game generation pipeline.
• Define evaluation frameworks, benchmarking and playability testing.
• Design feedback systems that incorporate player behavior into generation improvements.
• Drive model routing, optimization and cost reduction strategies.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to shape the technical roadmap.

Skills

AI leadership

LLM production

Team leadership

Cost optimization

Architectural design

Job description

Head of AI
London - Remote (Transitioning to hybrid working in London after 6 months)
£120,000 - £150,000 + Equity + Private Health & Dental + Gym Allowance + Commuting Season Ticket Loan

Are you an experienced AI engineering leader who has built and scaled LLM-powered generation systems in production, and do you want to take ownership of the architecture, strategy and performance of a cutting-edge platform where every user-generated game is created by AI?

This is a rare opportunity to join a startup at a pivotal stage of growth, taking ownership of the core technology that powers the entire product experience. You will lead the team responsible for designing and evolving a sophisticated game generation pipeline used to create short-form browser games at scale.

In this leadership-focused role, you will be responsible for architecture, technical direction, roadmap ownership and team growth. Working closely with product, engineering and game design teams, you will define how AI models, templates, retrieval systems and validation frameworks work together to maximise generation quality while reducing operational costs.

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record leading teams that have delivered large-scale AI content generation systems into production. Experience with game development, code generation platforms, procedural content generation or prompt-to-application products would be highly beneficial.

The Role:

• Lead and grow a multidisciplinary AI and engineering team
• Own the architecture of the end-to-end game generation pipeline
• Define evaluation frameworks, benchmarking and playability testing
• Design feedback systems that incorporate player behaviour into generation improvements
• Drive model routing, optimisation and cost reduction strategies
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to shape the technical roadmap

The Person:

• Experience leading engineering teams delivering LLM-powered generation systems in production
• Strong background designing multi-stage generation, validation and evaluation pipelines
• Proven experience reducing generation costs through model routing, caching and retrieval strategies
• Able to lead architecture decisions and contribute technical guidance at a senior level
• Commercially aware and comfortable balancing technical and product priorities
• Games industry, game tooling or procedural generation experience beneficial

Reference Number: BBBH281438

We are an equal opportunities company and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.