About the role

  • Lead AI Engineer creating and shipping production-grade AI products at Reward Gateway | Edenred. Leading a small team and driving AI productivity while ensuring high standards in the design and delivery of solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, build, and ship production-grade AI / Generative AI products using LLMs, RAG, agents, strong context strategies, and responsible guardrails.
  • Lead a small team (initially 2 AI engineers) and scale it; partner with Product using a working backwards mindset; set objectives, run Agile/Scrum, coach, and make fast, high-quality decisions.
  • Drive 10x productivity with AI agents and AI coding assistants while maintaining high standards for code quality, testing, reviews, and observability, taking full ownership of AI outcomes.
  • Evolve POCs into measurable solutions with clear metrics, A/B tests, online evaluation, and lightweight models.
  • Own end-to-end workflows: data pipelines, evaluation and benchmarking, instrumentation, human-in-the-loop validation, and compliance.
  • Operate on AWS and Kubernetes with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, performance, and cost control.
  • Make pragmatic choices, including LLMs, prompting vs fine-tuning, embeddings and vector search, hybrid search; ensure privacy, PII protection, and enterprise controls.

Requirements

  • Hands‑on leader who has built and shipped production AI and full‑stack systems.
  • Python first; testing and CI/CD; fluent with AI coding assistants (Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code) and accountable for outcomes
  • Applied LLMs: Claude or similar; RAG, agents, prompt engineering; embeddings + vector DBs; hybrid search; evaluation/benchmarking
  • Data engineering: ETL; SQL/NoSQL design; data sourcing/ingestion with governance and quality
  • Cloud/platform: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker; infrastructure as code; observability
  • Privacy and compliance in regulated settings; clear communicator; mentor who sets objectives and drives ownership
  • Nice‑to‑have: Advanced retrieval/reranking and context/chunking strategies; offline/online evaluation frameworks; ML data lifecycle: feature engineering; train/val/test splits; dataset versioning; pipeline orchestration; production monitoring for drift/quality; Ability to contribute to React, TypeScript, and PHP codebases; Cost and performance at scale: model routing, caching, token/latency budgets; SLOs (e.g., p95 latency, availability)

Benefits

  • Online interview with the Talent Partner and the Director of AI Engineering
  • Technical interview with Director of AI Engineering, VP of Product Engineering, and VP of Product
  • Inclusive and accessible recruitment process
  • Commitment to diversity and inclusion

Job title

Lead AI Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

£110,000 - £120,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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