About the role

  • Lead the design and delivery of complex ML and GenAI systems, ensuring solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with business goals
  • Guide the team in end-to-end model development from experimentation and evaluation through deployment and monitoring, focusing on reproducibility and reliability
  • Drive architectural decisions for data-intensive, AI-driven applications, balancing cutting-edge approaches and production readiness
  • Mentor and grow engineers across levels, sharing best practices in software engineering, ML/AI, and cloud infrastructure
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders to shape roadmaps, scope projects, and balance technical innovation with delivery
  • Champion engineering excellence including coding standards, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and incident management
  • Be a visible technical leader pushing adoption of AI/ML across teams and influencing company-wide strategy
  • Build large-scale AI powered systems and work alongside researchers and engineers to apply latest techniques

Requirements

  • Proven experience leading engineering teams in a high-growth, fast-paced environment
  • Experience mentoring engineers, conducting performance reviews, and building inclusive, high-performing teams
  • Strong software engineering skills (Python preferred)
  • Deep knowledge of AI/ML frameworks and GenAI tooling
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying ML/GenAI systems in production (ideally in finance, legal, or similar data-heavy spaces)
  • Experience driving architectural decisions for data-intensive AI-driven applications
  • Knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
  • Familiarity with modern MLOps practices
  • Ability to lead architectural discussions and make technical trade-offs
  • Comfortable working in a collaborative, startup-style environment and working cross-functionally

Benefits

  • Competitive Salary (our salary bands are benchmarked at the top end of the market)
  • Equity
  • Pension (your minimum contributions are 4% with 9fin matching up to 7%)
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Paid sick leave with Income Protection for long periods of illness
  • Group Life Assurance
  • Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes
  • 25 holiday days per year
  • Local public holidays (with the ability to exchange them for alternative days)
  • Hybrid working model, to allow you the flexibility to decide how, where and when you do your best work
  • Work abroad for up to 3 months a year
  • 1 month paid sabbatical after 5 years of service
  • Enhanced parental leave & flexible working arrangements available
  • Professional learning and development budget
  • Quarterly team socials
  • Summer and Winter company social events

Job title

Lead AI Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

Location requirements

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