Technical Lead, AI-Native Lab Automation

Automata; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vitality Health Insurance

Eye Care

Salary Sacrifice - EV

Salary Sacrifice - Bike & Tech

Wellbeing & Support

Wellbeing & Development Allowance

Spill & Employee Assistance Programme

Additional Leave

Pension Scheme

Group Life & Critical Illness cover

Job summary

Automata is seeking a senior technical leader in London to guide an experienced squad building a realtime, AI-native lab automation engine. You will drive end-to-end execution, set architectural direction, and mentor senior engineers in a fast-paced PEDDAI ecosystem.

You will own part of the architecture, partner with cross-functional leaders, and champion AI-driven, automation-first delivery. The role demands scale-up experience and a relentless focus on high-quality outcomes.

Qualifications

• More than 12 years of experience as an engineer, with more than 7 years building products.
• Demonstrable experience delivering a highly complex product.
• Past work includes realtime products with streaming capabilities, integrated AI and exposing it via MCP.
• Strong knowledge of GoLang, ideally also Rust.
• Experience managing multiple Senior engineers.
• Proven knowledge and use of AI and Automation in the day-to-day as a multiplier and accelerator.
• Experience operating in environments that demand both speed and quality (scale-ups, top-tier tech, or product driven enterprise transformation)

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end squad delivery within Product Engineering (Software), in a department with Product, Engineering, Design, Data & AI (PEDDAI)—turning challenges into predictable, high-quality product delivery
• Hand-on squad leader–set the bar of what high-quality looks like at pace
• Own part of the technical architecture–set the direction of our product
• Partner with PEDDAI, Customer Success, and Sales leadership to align on challenges, initiatives, and roadmap
• Lead, and level-up high-performing Product Engineers that reports to you—hiring, mentoring, and setting an uncompromising bar for execution
• Architect, and continuously evolve operating systems that scale—eliminating bottlenecks, increasing velocity, and enabling the squad to move autonomously
• Embed AI-native and automation-first ways of working—unlocking step-change improvements in productivity and throughput
• Bridge strategy and execution—ensuring we build what we defined; that what we build, ships fast; and what we ship, delivers results with high quality

Skills

Technical leadership

Hands-on engineering

Architectural vision

Tools

GoLang

Rust

Job description

Automata is seeking a senior technical leader in London to guide an experienced squad building a realtime, AI-native lab automation engine. You will drive end-to-end execution, set architectural direction, and mentor senior engineers in a fast-paced PEDDAI ecosystem.

You will own part of the architecture, partner with cross-functional leaders, and champion AI-driven, automation-first delivery. The role demands scale-up experience and a relentless focus on high-quality outcomes.