Principal AI Engineer & GenAI Solutions Lead

Capco; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Health insurance

Pension

Life insurance

Critical illness cover

Job summary

Capco is seeking a Lead AI Engineer (Principal Consultant) in London to join our Technology Delivery Team. You will architect and deliver cutting‑edge generative AI and agentic systems for financial services, guiding cross‑functional teams through strategic AI decisions.

You will hands‑on‑develop scalable AI solutions, deploy LLMs and multi‑modal models, and shape production‑grade ML pipelines with a focus on performance, latency, and enterprise integration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, AI, or related STEM fields.
• Hands‑on experience deploying LLMs and multi‑modal models at scale.
• Strong engineering background in Python with proven backend and API development skills.
• Solid understanding of scalable MLOps, observability, and cloud‑native AI deployment.
• Excellent communication, problem‑solving, and project management skills in agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop autonomous AI systems integrating multi-modal LLMs (text, image, audio, video).
• Design agentic workflows enabling AI agents to interact with data sources and APIs using prompt engineering and RAG.
• Fine‑tune, optimize, and deploy large language and multi‑modal models with a focus on performance and latency.
• Build scalable MLOps pipelines and full‑stack applications to support robust, production‑grade AI deployments.
• Guide multidisciplinary teams and clients through strategic decisions in AI engineering and GenAI adoption.

Skills

LLMs deployment

Multi-modal models

Python backend

MLOps

Observability

Agile project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/AI or related STEM

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Langfuse

Langsmith

Job description

Capco is seeking a Lead AI Engineer (Principal Consultant) in London to join our Technology Delivery Team. You will architect and deliver cutting‑edge generative AI and agentic systems for financial services, guiding cross‑functional teams through strategic AI decisions.

You will hands‑on‑develop scalable AI solutions, deploy LLMs and multi‑modal models, and shape production‑grade ML pipelines with a focus on performance, latency, and enterprise integration.