Remote AI Technical Lead - LLM & Production

F5; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Mostly remote with Bristol office ad-h

Sabbatical after two years

Job summary

F5 is seeking an AI Technical Lead to own and advance a new AI capability within its established software business. You will stay hands-on while leading a small team to turn AI ideas into secure, scalable features across commercial products.

Backed by a large international group, you will influence architecture, engineering standards and the long-term AI roadmap, with mostly remote work and occasional Bristol office visits. You’ll mentor engineers and drive real product ownership.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering AI functionality into production within a product environment.
• Strong hands-on engineering depth with leadership and architectural decision-making.
• Exposure to Azure OpenAI, vector databases and responsible AI controls is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across a multidisciplinary AI engineering team
• Shape the architecture and technical direction for AI across the product suite
• Lead the delivery of LLM, RAG and agentic AI solutions
• Take ideas from discovery and proof of concept through to production
• Establish standards for evaluation, security, observability, governance and cost control
• Work directly with product and operational stakeholders to turn high-level problems into deliverable solutions
• Mentor engineers, review designs and code, and remain actively involved in development
• Assess where AI adds genuine value-and challenge its use where a conventional solution would be better

Skills

C#/.NET

Azure

Python

Distributed systems

AI / LLM

Team leadership

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Search

Semantic Kernel

Microsoft Agent Framework

Job description

F5 is seeking an AI Technical Lead to own and advance a new AI capability within its established software business. You will stay hands-on while leading a small team to turn AI ideas into secure, scalable features across commercial products.

Backed by a large international group, you will influence architecture, engineering standards and the long-term AI roadmap, with mostly remote work and occasional Bristol office visits. You’ll mentor engineers and drive real product ownership.