Senior AI Engineer: Learning Platform Architect

eFinancialCareers; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

eFinancialCareers is seeking a Senior AI Engineer in London (Hybrid) to lead AI strategy, architect scalable AI services, and deliver innovative learning-focused features. You will mentor engineers and collaborate with product, design, data, and engineering teams to drive impact across the platform.

You will shape responsible AI initiatives, ensure production-grade quality, and help build a high-performing AI engineering capability within a fast-growing online learning ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building and deploying AI/ML products in production.
• Expert-level software engineering with Python.
• Experience with LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, prompt engineering, and model evaluation.
• Experience building cloud-native applications on Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• Strong understanding of MLOps, CI/CD, Kubernetes, containerisation, and scalable system architecture.
• Experience integrating AI into customer-facing products.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Desirable: Experience within EdTech, SaaS, or digital consumer products.
• Knowledge of adaptive learning, recommendation systems, or educational analytics.
• Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, vector databases, and AI orchestration frameworks.
• Understanding of responsible AI, privacy, and ethical AI development.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the technical vision for AI across our learning platform.
• Architect and build scalable AI services using large language models, machine learning, and modern cloud technologies.
• Develop intelligent learning experiences including personalised learning journeys, AI tutors, content generation, assessment, recommendations, and learner support tools.
• Build production-ready AI systems with a strong focus on quality, reliability, security, and performance.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Learning Design, Data Science, and Engineering teams to deliver customer-focused solutions.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and identify opportunities to improve learner engagement and educational outcomes.
• Establish engineering standards, AI governance, and best practices across the organisation.
• Mentor senior engineers and help grow a high-performing AI engineering capability.

Skills

Python

LLMs

RAG

AI agents

Prompt engineering

Model evaluation

Cloud-native apps

MLOps

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Vector databases

LangChain

LlamaIndex

AI governance

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Vector databases

AI orchestration frameworks

Job description

eFinancialCareers is seeking a Senior AI Engineer in London (Hybrid) to lead AI strategy, architect scalable AI services, and deliver innovative learning-focused features. You will mentor engineers and collaborate with product, design, data, and engineering teams to drive impact across the platform.

You will shape responsible AI initiatives, ensure production-grade quality, and help build a high-performing AI engineering capability within a fast-growing online learning ecosystem.