Head of AI

Rise Technical Recruitment; United States; Hybrid; USD 162,000 - 202,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Private Health

Dental

Gym Allowance

Commuting Season Ticket Loan

Job summary

Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd is seeking an experienced Head of AI in London. The role is remote with a transition to hybrid working after 6 months, offering £120,000–£150,000 plus equity and health benefits.

You will lead a team driving a scalable AI-powered game generation platform and own the end-to-end architecture and roadmap. You will oversee model routing, validation, and cost-reduction strategies while collaborating with product and design teams to maximise quality and scale.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams delivering LLM-powered generation systems in production.
• Strong background designing multi-stage generation, validation and evaluation pipelines.
• Experience with game development, code generation platforms, procedural content generation or prompt-to-application products would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a multidisciplinary AI and engineering team.
• Own the architecture of the end-to-end game generation pipeline.
• Define evaluation frameworks, benchmarking and playability testing.
• Design feedback systems that incorporate player behaviour into generation improvements.
• Drive model routing, optimisation and cost reduction strategies.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to shape the technical roadmap.

Job description

Head of AI
London - Remote (Transitioning to hybrid working in London after 6 months)
£120,000 - £150,000 + Equity + Private Health & Dental + Gym Allowance + Commuting Season Ticket Loan

Are you an experienced AI engineering leader who has built and scaled LLM-powered generation systems in production, and do you want to take ownership of the architecture, strategy and performance of a cutting‑edge platform where every user-generated game is created by AI?

This is a rare opportunity to join a startup at a pivotal stage of growth, taking ownership of the core technology that powers the entire product experience. You will lead the team responsible for designing and evolving a sophisticated game generation pipeline used to create short‑form browser games at scale.

In this leadership‑focused role, you will be responsible for architecture, technical direction, roadmap ownership and team growth. Working closely with product, engineering and game design teams, you will define how AI models, templates, retrieval systems and validation frameworks work together to maximise generation quality while reducing operational costs.

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record leading teams that have delivered large-scale AI content generation systems into production. Experience with game development, code generation platforms, procedural content generation or prompt‑to‑application products would be highly beneficial.

The Role

• Lead and grow a multidisciplinary AI and engineering team
• Own the architecture of the end-to-end game generation pipeline
• Define evaluation frameworks, benchmarking and playability testing
• Design feedback systems that incorporate player behaviour into generation improvements
• Drive model routing, optimisation and cost reduction strategies
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to shape the technical roadmap

The Person

• Experience leading engineering teams delivering LLM‑powered generation systems in production
• Strong background designing multi‑stage generation, validation and evaluation pipelines
• Proven experience reducing generation costs through model routing, caching and retrieval strategies
• Able to lead architecture decisions and contribute technical guidance at a senior level
• Commercially aware and comfortable balancing technical and product priorities
• Games industry, game tooling or procedural generation experience beneficial

Reference Number: BBBH281438

We are an equal opportunities company and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.