Hybrid London Lead AI Engineer: Generative & ML

Metrica Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

London-based hybrid working

Flexible working

International client projects

Technical and personal development

Lead AI engineering capabilities

Job summary

We are partnering with a global professional services organisation to recruit a Lead AI Engineer for London. You will blend deep technical expertise with senior client engagement, shaping AI strategies and delivering production-grade AI solutions across data-rich, regulated industries.

You will lead end-to-end engineering delivery for LLMs, RAG, and generative architectures, while guiding cross-functional teams and establishing guardrails for secure deployment.

Qualifications

• Expert Python skills with strong experience across PyTorch, TensorFlow and modern AI frameworks.
• Hands-on expertise with LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, vector databases and generative architectures.
• Production experience across AI/ML deployment, evaluation, security and MLOps/LLMOps.
• Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP and enterprise-scale AI environments.
• Strong stakeholder communication, technical leadership and team management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of production-grade AI and Generative AI solutions.
• Shape AI strategies with senior stakeholders and align technology with business goals.
• Design scalable pipelines covering data, models, evaluation and secure deployment.
• Oversee LLM, diffusion and other generative model development and operationalisation.
• Establish evaluation, security and responsible AI guardrails for production systems.
• Mentor cross-functional teams and influence reusable AI engineering standards.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

LLMs

MLOps

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

LangChain

Job description

We are partnering with a global professional services organisation to recruit a Lead AI Engineer for London. You will blend deep technical expertise with senior client engagement, shaping AI strategies and delivering production-grade AI solutions across data-rich, regulated industries.

You will lead end-to-end engineering delivery for LLMs, RAG, and generative architectures, while guiding cross-functional teams and establishing guardrails for secure deployment.