Lead AI Engineer — End-to-End Production for Enterprise

Indicium AI; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Indicium AI in Greater London is seeking a Lead FDE to design, guide and deploy production AI solutions for enterprise clients. You will own architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and manage client relationships, ensuring delivery against complex constraints.

This role is hands-on, with weekly code involvement and coordination across procurement, security reviews, and multiple internal teams. This role emphasizes strong technical leadership, practical coding, and the ability to drive delivery

Qualifications

• Experience delivering AI systems from design to production in enterprise environments.
• Experience owning technical direction and architecture decisions.
• Hands-on coding and willingness to pair with engineers.
• Experience leading a delivery team and managing dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI engineering engagements end to end, from solution design through to production deployment, in complex enterprise environments.
• Design and build production agentic AI systems: multi-agent orchestration, autonomous agent workflows, tool-use patterns, and the reliability layer that makes agents trustworthy in regulated environments.
• Build advanced RAG pipelines — retrieval architectures, embedding strategies, reranking, hybrid search, and the evaluation frameworks that prove they work at scale.
• Develop and deploy MCP servers and tool ecosystem integrations that give agents real-world capability within enterprise infrastructure.
• Design evaluation and observability frameworks for non-deterministic systems, ensuring production AI applications are measurable, debuggable, and continuously improving.
• Own the client technical relationship at senior stakeholder level.
• Navigate organisational complexity, such as procurement, compliance, resistant IT teams, shifting priorities, all without losing delivery momentum.
• Have commercial awareness by identifying and shaping new opportunities within an existing client.
• Codify repeatable deployment patterns and contribute insights that strengthen the wider business, such as reference architectures, agent patterns, and evaluation methodologies.
• Mentor AI Engineers on your engagements and raise the bar for the practice through knowledge sharing.
• Work alongside Anthropic field teams on joint client engagements and represent Indicium AI at the highest level.

Skills

Lead AI engineering engagements

System architecture decisions

Hands-on production coding

Mentoring engineers

Client relationship management

Delivery and risk management

Tools

MCP servers

Enterprise tool integrations

Job description

Indicium AI in Greater London is seeking a Lead FDE to design, guide and deploy production AI solutions for enterprise clients. You will own architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and manage client relationships, ensuring delivery against complex constraints.

This role is hands-on, with weekly code involvement and coordination across procurement, security reviews, and multiple internal teams. This role emphasizes strong technical leadership, practical coding, and the ability to drive delivery