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Lead AI Engineer

Job in Greater London, London, Greater London, W1B, England, UK
Listing for: Futureheads Recruitment | B Corp™
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-22
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    AI Engineer (Applied/Software), AI QA / Validation Engineer, Backend Developer, Cloud Engineer - Software
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 170000 GBP Yearly GBP 170000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
  • Up to £170,000 per annum
  • London Area (Hybrid - 3/wk)
  • Strong Software Engineering Fundamentals

Futureheads are engaged exclusively on a search for a Lead AI Engineer working on a significant enterprise AI modernisation and transformation programme.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who combines deep software engineering experience with genuine, production-level experience using AI across development.

The role:

  • Building AI-assisted software engineering workflows, including coding agents and agent orchestration
  • Designing evaluation, testing and quality frameworks for AI-generated code
  • Building and evolving distributed, high-volume, resilient systems
  • Working across AWS, cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD and observability
  • Reviewing and challenging AI-generated code, with engineering judgement remaining central
  • Developing the guardrails, validation and human oversight required to use AI reliably in production
  • Contributing to architecture and engineering standards across a complex technology environment
  • Highly experienced senior+ software engineering experience
  • A polyglot background, with Go, Java or Type Script particularly relevant
  • A strong track record building complex, enterprise-scale distributed systems
  • Deep experience across cloud, architecture, CI/CD and production engineering
  • Proven use of AI meaningfully across the software development lifecycle
  • Experience with AI-generated code, coding agents, agentic workflows, evaluation or AI-assisted development
  • Strong engineering judgement around quality, security, resilience and failure modes
  • Someone who remains genuinely hands-on and technically close to the work

This isn't an ML research role or a people-management position. It's an opportunity for an experienced software engineer with strong fundamentals to help shape what AI-first software engineering looks like at enterprise scale.

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