Hybrid Lead AI Engineer: Build Production AI Solutions

Bauer Media Outdoor UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

25 paid holidays

Company Pension up to 8%

Life Insurance

Job summary

Bauer Media Outdoor UK is seeking an experienced Lead Engineer for the AI Enablement team. You will design, build and deploy AI-enabled software used across the organisation, collaborating with Product Leads and delivering production-grade code that creates clear business value.

You will develop custom AI Assistants within Bauer AI Chat, explore Azure OpenAI and Perplexity AI, and own end-to-end system design, security, reliability and performance across live environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong backend expertise with production systems.
• Experience integrating AI/LLM services into production.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and secure software design.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI enabled applications addressing genuine business needs.
• Integrate AI services such as Azure OpenAI and Perplexity AI into production systems.
• Develop APIs, backend services, service integrations, automation workflows and data pipelines.
• Build and maintain custom AI Assistants for Bauer AI Chat with focus on security, reliability and UX.
• Partner with Product Leads to take ideas from discovery to delivery.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into scalable technical solutions.
• Prototype, experiment and iterate quickly based on feedback and performance data.
• Deploy AI driven features into live environments with speed and quality.

Skills

Python

Cloud-native development

Distributed systems

DevOps

MLOps

APIs & microservices

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Monitoring & logging

Job description

Bauer Media Outdoor UK is seeking an experienced Lead Engineer for the AI Enablement team. You will design, build and deploy AI-enabled software used across the organisation, collaborating with Product Leads and delivering production-grade code that creates clear business value.

You will develop custom AI Assistants within Bauer AI Chat, explore Azure OpenAI and Perplexity AI, and own end-to-end system design, security, reliability and performance across live environments.