Principal AI Engineer - Agentic AI Standards & Delivery

Salt; Greater London; On-site; GBP 94,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt in London is seeking a principal level engineer to establish and implement engineering standards for agentic AI across a major digital transformation programme. This is a hands-on role combining technical direction, implementation and stakeholder advice, with three days on site in Stratford, London.

You will work with AI-enabled development teams to turn experimentation into secure, maintainable solutions used across the organisation, addressing security, governance and operational controls

Qualifications

• Hands-on role combining technical direction and implementation.
• Principal, staff or equivalent senior engineering experience.
• Experience delivering agentic AI solutions in a substantial enterprise environment.

Responsibilities

• Define practical engineering standards for agentic AI and AI assisted development.
• Build and configure tooling, integrations and controls alongside engineering teams.
• Establish approaches to security, monitoring, cost tracking and maintenance.
• Address risks such as prompt injection, exposed secrets and data leakage.
• Help teams adopt consistent practices and share what works.
• Advise technical and business stakeholders on implementation decisions and trade-offs.

Job description

Salt in London is seeking a principal level engineer to establish and implement engineering standards for agentic AI across a major digital transformation programme. This is a hands-on role combining technical direction, implementation and stakeholder advice, with three days on site in Stratford, London.

You will work with AI-enabled development teams to turn experimentation into secure, maintainable solutions used across the organisation, addressing security, governance and operational controls