Head of Engineering - Hybrid UK AI Platform

Able; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Able is hiring a senior, hands-on Head of Engineering to own the technology—both products and architecture—plus the roadmap and the team that follows. The role starts on a contract basis with potential for permanence as Head of Engineering, and eventually CTO, reporting to the Founder and CEO in London.

The position requires leading a small engineering staff, building with frontier AI, and ensuring governance for ethics, safety, and UK GDPR compliance while delivering a scalable platform for

Qualifications

• Eight or more years in software engineering, including leading a team or a technical function.
• Builds with frontier AI every day: AI coding agents, LLM/ML services in production, evaluation design.
• Working grasp of AI risk, ethics and safety, applied in production.
• Full-stack and cloud production experience; comfortable choosing and moving infrastructure.
• Mobile delivery: shipped at least one app through the App Store and Google Play.
• Security and data-protection fluency: built or run systems handling sensitive personal data.
• Writes clearly and briefly; decisions are recorded in writing.
• Based in the UK with the right to work here, and able to be in London in person regularly.

Responsibilities

• Own Able's technology: products, architecture, roadmap and the team.
• Lead engineering in a hybrid setup with regular in-person presence in London.

Skills

Team leadership

Full-stack development

Cloud infrastructure

AI risk & ethics

Security & data protection

Technical writing

Tools

Kotlin

Swift

Qiskit/Cirq/PennyLane

Job description

Able is hiring a senior, hands-on Head of Engineering to own the technology—both products and architecture—plus the roadmap and the team that follows. The role starts on a contract basis with potential for permanence as Head of Engineering, and eventually CTO, reporting to the Founder and CEO in London.

The position requires leading a small engineering staff, building with frontier AI, and ensuring governance for ethics, safety, and UK GDPR compliance while delivering a scalable platform for