Senior Principal AI Engineer

Senior Principal AI Engineer | London (Hybrid)

£120,000 base salary + bonus

I’m currently working with a leading technology consultancy that is looking for a Senior Principal AI Engineer to help design, build, and deliver production-grade AI solutions across complex enterprise environments.

This is a senior role combining hands‑on AI engineering, technical leadership, architecture, and client‑facing consulting, working across the full AI lifecycle from concept through to deployment and optimisation.

• Designing and delivering end‑to‑end AI/ML solutions, including Generative AI and classical ML use cases
• Building scalable AI pipelines across data ingestion, feature engineering, training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
• Applying MLOps best practices including CI/CD, model versioning, automated retraining, monitoring, and rollback
• Defining AI solution architectures for enterprise‑scale environments
• Evaluating emerging technologies including LLMs, GenAI platforms, and vector databases
• Leading technical workshops and advising clients on AI strategy, feasibility, and implementation
• Driving Responsible AI principles around explainability, governance, privacy, and compliance
• Mentoring AI Engineers and Data Scientists

• Strong background in AI Engineering, ML Engineering, or similar roles delivering production AI systems
• Excellent Python/software engineering capability
• Experience with frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensor Flow, or scikit‑learn
• Strong MLOps experience deploying models into live environments
• Cloud experience across Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly with stakeholders

Location:

London (Hybrid)

Employment:
Permanent

This is a great opportunity to work on high‑impact AI programmes while helping shape best practices for enterprise AI delivery.