Principal AI Engineer - Field-Embedded AI Solutions

Ocho People Ltd.; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

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Ocho People Ltd. seeks a Principal AI Engineer (Forward Deployed) to embed with customer teams and tackle live operational problems with rapid AI solutions.

You will set technical direction, define architectural patterns, and act as the technical voice with senior stakeholders while mentoring engineers. This senior IC role offers share options and a fast-moving environment where ideas translate into impact quickly.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building software or AI systems in production
• Deep Python expertise and substantial hands-on large language model experience
• Track record of shipping quickly in ambiguous, under-specified situations
• Experience setting technical direction that other engineers then follow
• Confident working directly with customers, including in operational settings
• Eligible for UK security clearance

Responsibilities

• Embed with customer teams to understand operational problems first hand
• Build working AI solutions rapidly against real data and real constraints
• Set the technical approach and architectural patterns used across deployments
• Own the hardest problems, the ones nobody else has managed to crack
• Design and tune retrieval, prompting and agent behaviour for demanding use cases
• Establish the standard for how output quality is validated before it is relied upon
• Convert successful deployments into repeatable product capability
• Mentor senior engineers and act as the technical voice with senior customer stakeholders

Skills

Python

LLM expertise

Production systems

Ambiguity handling

Technical leadership

Customer engagement

Job description

Ocho People Ltd. seeks a Principal AI Engineer (Forward Deployed) to embed with customer teams and tackle live operational problems with rapid AI solutions.

You will set technical direction, define architectural patterns, and act as the technical voice with senior stakeholders while mentoring engineers. This senior IC role offers share options and a fast-moving environment where ideas translate into impact quickly.