Senior AI Engineer

We're currently partnered with an exceptional private equity investment business that has recently made a major investment into AI and technology, including hiring a Global Head of AI Engineering to build and lead the function.

As part of this growth, they are looking to hire both a Senior AI Engineer and a Lead AI Engineer into a newly forming team that will play a critical role in shaping how AI is adopted and embedded across the wider business.

This is not an environment where AI is being explored for the sake of innovation headlines. The focus is on building scalable, production grade AI systems that can genuinely improve workflows, knowledge systems, operational efficiency and internal decision making across a highly sophisticated investment business.

The opportunity is particularly unique because of the level of ownership available. You will be joining at an early stage of the AI function's growth, giving you the chance to influence architecture, tooling, technical direction, use cases and long term strategy from day one.

The environment itself is highly technical, intellectually strong and engineering led, with significant buy in from leadership and investment into modern tooling and infrastructure.

Depending on level, responsibilities are likely to include:

• Designing and building scalable AI systems and internal AI tooling
• Developing and deploying LLM powered applications and agentic workflows
• Working across retrieval systems, prompt engineering and orchestration frameworks
• Building production grade APIs and AI services
• Partnering with senior stakeholders across the business to identify impactful AI use cases
• Helping shape AI architecture, best practices and engineering standards
• Evaluating and implementing emerging AI tooling and frameworks
• Mentoring engineers and helping grow the wider AI capability (Lead level)

They are looking for strong engineers who are comfortable operating autonomously in a high-performance environment.

The ideal background will likely include:

• Experience building and deploying AI systems into production
• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Ability to work closely with senior technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Commercial mindset and interest in solving real operational problems
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving and evolving environment
• Previous experience in startups, scaleups, high-performance technology teams or sophisticated enterprise environments is beneficial

• Base salary well into six figures
• 20-40% discretionary bonus
• Hybrid working model based in Central London
• Opportunity to join at the beginning of a major AI transformation journey within a globally respected investment environment

The business is looking to move quickly and can offer significant long term scope, ownership and progression for the right individuals.