Senior AI Engineer: Lead Production-Grade AI & MLOps

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Watford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Enterprise AI Engineer to deliver a roadmap of AI improvements from prototyping to production deployments. You will design, develop and deploy scalable AI-powered software and lead AI projects across teams.

You will mentor engineers, implement MLOps practices, optimize data pipelines, and stay ahead of AI trends. The role requires strong Python, cloud experience (AWS/GCP), and IaC knowledge in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Strong Python programming and software engineering background.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP) and managed AI workloads.
• Familiarity with containers and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of AI/ML concepts and practical implementations.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy high-quality, scalable AI-enabled software and infrastructure.
• Lead and participate in AI system projects and deployments.
• Mentor team members on AI engineering best practices.
• Implement MLOps and AIOps to improve AI products, services, and processes.
• Optimize model serving and data pipelines for performance and security.
• Gather requirements with business stakeholders and data science teams.
• Lead projects focused on AI infrastructure and tooling.

Skills

Python

AWS / GCP

Docker / Kubernetes

MLOps

IaC (Terraform)

AI/ML concepts

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Serverless Framework

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Enterprise AI Engineer to deliver a roadmap of AI improvements from prototyping to production deployments. You will design, develop and deploy scalable AI-powered software and lead AI projects across teams.

You will mentor engineers, implement MLOps practices, optimize data pipelines, and stay ahead of AI trends. The role requires strong Python, cloud experience (AWS/GCP), and IaC knowledge in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.