Lead AI Engineer — Production LLM Systems (Hybrid, Leeds)

MRJ Recruitment Limited; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Company X in Leeds is seeking a Lead Engineer / Tech Lead to drive AI-powered product development for a diverse client base. You will lead engineers, shape architecture for orchestration and agent systems, and own end-to-end delivery of production-grade AI features.

The role emphasizes hands-on AI craftsmanship, mentoring, and delivering pragmatic, scalable solutions across product and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Experience engineering AI-powered products with real production deployments.
• Mentor/lead a small team of engineers toward reliable delivery.
• Strong governance and coaching-led leadership mindset.
• Commercial experience with Microsoft ecosystem (Azure/.NET).
• Hands-on with LLMs (Claude, Codex, Gemini) or open-source models.
• Experience with LLM orchestration frameworks and agent-based systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop engineers, fostering high-trust, high-delivery teams.
• Design and build AI-first products for diverse clients.
• Ship production-grade LLM-powered systems and agent frameworks.
• Own full product lifecycle from discovery to enterprise delivery.
• Translate user problems into pragmatic technical solutions.
• Embed AI capability into products and teams to retain value.

Skills

AI engineering

Automation

Workflow engineering

Team leadership

LLM exposure

LangChain tooling

Prompt engineering

API integration

Tools

Azure

.NET

AI frameworks

LangChain

LlamaIndex

AutoGen

Job description

Company X in Leeds is seeking a Lead Engineer / Tech Lead to drive AI-powered product development for a diverse client base. You will lead engineers, shape architecture for orchestration and agent systems, and own end-to-end delivery of production-grade AI features.

The role emphasizes hands-on AI craftsmanship, mentoring, and delivering pragmatic, scalable solutions across product and engineering teams.