Lead AI Engineer: Build Production-Grade AI Solutions

Bauer Media Outdoor UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

25 paid holidays

Company Pension Scheme up to 8%

Life Insurance & income protection

Job summary

Bauer Media Outdoor UK is hiring an experienced Lead Engineer for the AI Enablement team. This hands-on role designs, builds and deploys AI-enabled software used across the organisation, including Bauer AI Chat.

You will work with Product Leads to shape solutions, integrate Azure OpenAI, and ship production-grade code that delivers real business value. The position emphasises security, reliability and fast delivery in a hybrid working environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python and cloud-native development (Azure preferred).
• Proven experience integrating AI or LLM based services into production systems
• Experience in machine learning or computer vision is beneficial but not essential
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, APIs, microservices and secure software design
• Experience with DevOps or MLOps tooling including CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, monitoring and logging
• Comfortable owning complex technical problems and driving them through to delivery

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI enabled applications that address genuine business needs rather than theoretical use cases
• Integrate AI services such as Azure OpenAI and Perplexity AI into production systems
• Develop APIs, backend services, service integrations, automation workflows and data pipelines that enable AI capabilities
• Build and maintain custom AI Assistants for Bauer AI Chat with a focus on security, reliability and user experience
• Partner closely with Product Leads to take ideas from discovery through to delivery
• Translate ambiguous business problems into clear, scalable technical solutions
• Prototype, experiment and iterate quickly based on user feedback and performance data
• Deploy AI driven features into live environments with a focus on speed, quality
• Write clean, well-tested, production ready code and set a high engineering standard
• Own system design, delivery and ongoing evolution end to end
• Resolve complex engineering challenges across performance, scalability and integration
• Build and operate reliable infrastructure using practical DevOps and MLOps practices
• Monitor, optimise and continuously improve AI solutions in production
• Mentor engineers and raise capability across AI solution development, design and delivery
• Communicate technical decisions clearly to non-technical audiences
• Support adoption and rollout by ensuring robust integrations and smooth user experiences

Skills

Python

Azure

LLM integration

Distributed systems

APIs & microservices

DevOps / MLOps

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Tools

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring & Logging

Job description

Bauer Media Outdoor UK is hiring an experienced Lead Engineer for the AI Enablement team. This hands-on role designs, builds and deploys AI-enabled software used across the organisation, including Bauer AI Chat.

You will work with Product Leads to shape solutions, integrate Azure OpenAI, and ship production-grade code that delivers real business value. The position emphasises security, reliability and fast delivery in a hybrid working environment.