Principal AI Engineer – GenAI MVPs for Regulated Tech

Lloyds Banking Group; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 15%

Annual bonus

Share schemes

Flexible benefits

30 days holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Parental leave

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is recruiting for Principal Engineers to join the Advanced AI Engineering team within the Data & AI Unit. You will lead engineering efforts to evaluate and deploy GenAI solutions that operate in a regulated environment, delivering MVPs and scalable AI-powered capabilities.

This role blends technical leadership with hands-on coding, mentoring teams, and shaping AI strategy across business and platform disciplines, with a hybrid UK-based working pattern.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering production‑grade technology in complex environments.
• Strong software engineering expertise across multiple languages and platforms.
• Deep applied AI/ML and GenAI experience, including RAG, tool use, guardrails and evaluation frameworks.
• Experience designing and operating AI solutions in regulated environments with focus on reliability, security and explainability.

Responsibilities

• Identify priority AI problems with business and platform teams for customer‑facing solutions.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies through rapid prototyping and experiments.
• Lead engineering delivery of MVPs enabling scalable adoption of AI solutions.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor for GenAI and Agentic AI initiatives.
• Coach and mentor engineers to adopt AI patterns and best practices.
• Influence business and technology strategy with practical AI capabilities.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Software engineering

Generative AI (GenAI)

Regulated environments

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Python

ML frameworks

RAG (retrieval-augmented generation)

AI tooling & experimentation

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group is recruiting for Principal Engineers to join the Advanced AI Engineering team within the Data & AI Unit. You will lead engineering efforts to evaluate and deploy GenAI solutions that operate in a regulated environment, delivering MVPs and scalable AI-powered capabilities.

This role blends technical leadership with hands-on coding, mentoring teams, and shaping AI strategy across business and platform disciplines, with a hybrid UK-based working pattern.