Principal Engineer – Advanced AI Engineering

Principal Engineer – Advanced AI Engineering

Location:

London, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, or Manchester. Salary: £84,624–£128,580 (depending on location and experience). Working Pattern:
Hybrid – at least two days a week (40% of time at office).

Join the Advanced AI Engineering team in the Data & AI Unit within the Chief Technology Office. Lead the evaluation of emerging AI technology, build MVPs, and hand over proven solutions for engineering at scale.

• Partner with business platform teams to identify priority problems and adoption bottlenecks, focusing on market‑leading, customer‑facing agentic AI solutions that can operate in a regulated FSI environment.
• Identify and evaluate high‑potential emerging AI methods and technologies using applied research and prototyping.
• Lead the engineering of operational MVPs for critical AI business challenges, leveraging hands‑on expertise and coaching others.
• Act as a domain expert in GenAI and Agentic AI technology and serve as a trusted advisor to engineering teams, business and technology leaders.
• Demonstrate and communicate the art of the possible and contribute to the development of business and technology strategy.

Proven experience as an engineering lead, delivering production‑grade solutions in complex environments, with accountability for outcomes; proficient in at least two programming languages; strong applied AI/ML and GenAI experience, including RAG, tool use, guardrails, evaluation, and agents; experience building and operating AI solutions in a regulated environment (reliability, security, safety, explainability); strong critical thinking and judgement; ability to influence and mentor engineers through technical leadership, coaching and constructive feedback;

engagement with senior stakeholders on technical direction and decisions.

Experience delivering technology solutions in regulated industries (financial services preferred); research experience in industry or advanced degree; development of technology solutions for customer‑facing platforms at scale; experience setting or evolving engineering standards, reference architectures, or reusable patterns in large organisations; partnership with Enterprise Architecture functions.

• Generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• Annual performance‑related bonus
• Share schemes, including free shares
• Benefits adaptable to lifestyle (discounted shopping)
• 30 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays
• Range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Lloyds Banking Group is committed to an inclusive workforce and welcomes applications from under‑representative groups. We are disability confident and provide reasonable adjustments to recruitment processes.