Lead AI Engineer & Tech Lead

MRJ Recruitment

Leeds

Hybrid

GBP 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Job summary

Company X in Leeds is seeking a Lead Engineer | Tech Lead to design and ship AI-first products for a diverse client base, including HealthTech and automotive brands. You will lead engineers, drive delivery, and own the full product lifecycle from discovery through scalable delivery.

The role emphasizes hands-on AI engineering, practical use of LangChain, LLMs, and orchestration frameworks, with a culture of continuous improvement and pragmatic governance.

Qualifications

  • Experience shipping production-grade LLM-powered systems.
  • Experience leading/mentoring a small team of engineers.
  • Hands-on experience building AI-powered products, from orchestration to deployment.
  • Experience in AI engineering, automation, workflow engineering, or software development.
  • Commercial experience with Microsoft ecosystem (.NET, Azure, Fabric).

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop engineers with high-trust culture and strong delivery.
  • Design AI-first products for HealthTech startups to automotive brands.
  • Ship production-grade LLM-powered systems including orchestration and agent frameworks.
  • Own full product lifecycle from discovery to scalable delivery.
  • Work at the intersection of product, engineering, and AI to translate user problems into solutions.
  • Embed AI capability into products and teams to keep value in-house.

Skills

AI engineering
Team leadership
Software development
Prompt engineering
LLM orchestration
Governance

Tools

LangChain
LlamaIndex
AutoGen
Azure
Fabric
UiPath
Blue Prism

Job description

Company X in Leeds is seeking a Lead Engineer | Tech Lead to design and ship AI-first products for a diverse client base, including HealthTech and automotive brands. You will lead engineers, drive delivery, and own the full product lifecycle from discovery through scalable delivery.

The role emphasizes hands-on AI engineering, practical use of LangChain, LLMs, and orchestration frameworks, with a culture of continuous improvement and pragmatic governance.

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