Lead Applied AI Engineer — Hybrid, Equity Options

Gravitas Recruitment Group (Global) Ltd; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity options scheme

25 days holiday (increasing to 30)

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption

£500 annual learning and development预算

AI assistant subscription

Cycle to Work scheme

Volunteer and charity days

Regular company socials and events

Structured career progression

Job summary

Gravitas Recruitment Group (Global) Ltd partners with a high-growth AI and technology consultancy to recruit a Lead Applied AI Engineer in Manchester. You will own technical delivery across client engagements, lead multidisciplinary teams, and remain hands-on in engineering, prototyping and deployment.

The role focuses on solving complex AI challenges, shaping strategy with clients and mentoring delivery teams. This hybrid Manchester role offers exposure to LLMs, RAG and cloud-native AI stacks.

Qualifications

• Strong experience developing and deploying production-grade Python applications.
• Experience building and delivering machine learning or generative AI solutions.
• Commercial experience with LLMs, RAG architectures, Embeddings, Prompt engineering, Model evaluation, AI agents, ML workflows and model serving.
• Experience designing cloud-native systems on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
• Strong DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code knowledge.
• Proven experience leading technical delivery across teams, projects or workstreams.
• Experience mentoring or managing engineers.
• Knowledge of Git, Linux/Unix, Docker, Open-source AI, ML and MLOps tooling.
• Excellent stakeholder and client-facing communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the successful delivery of Applied AI and Machine Learning projects.
• Remain hands-on with software development while providing technical leadership.
• Guide architecture, engineering standards and technical decision-making.
• Work closely with clients to understand business needs and define solutions.
• Lead sprint planning, technical reviews and agile delivery processes.
• Mentor engineers and support their professional development.
• Manage technical risks and ensure high-quality project outcomes.
• Contribute to hiring, interviewing and team growth.
• Support business development through technical proposals and solution design.
• Stay ahead of emerging trends across AI, ML, MLOps and cloud technologies.

Skills

Python development

ML/AI delivery

LLMs & RAG

Cloud-native architectures

DevOps & IaC

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Stakeholder communication

Git & Linux

Tools

Git

Docker

Linux/Unix

Open-source AI tools

MLOps tooling

Job description

Gravitas Recruitment Group (Global) Ltd partners with a high-growth AI and technology consultancy to recruit a Lead Applied AI Engineer in Manchester. You will own technical delivery across client engagements, lead multidisciplinary teams, and remain hands-on in engineering, prototyping and deployment.

The role focuses on solving complex AI challenges, shaping strategy with clients and mentoring delivery teams. This hybrid Manchester role offers exposure to LLMs, RAG and cloud-native AI stacks.