Principal AI Engineer

📋 Description

• Set technical direction across AI Engineering, defining the architecture principles, engineering
• Own the technical quality of major AI engagements, particularly where architecture, scale
• Lead across multiple projects and technical workstreams, setting priorities and direction while
• Design and review production AI architectures, including retrieval and knowledge layers, agentic
• Remain hands-on on the hardest problems: reviewing code, prototyping approaches, resolving
• Run rigorous design reviews that raise the engineering bar across the practice and create an

🎯 Requirements

• At least 10 years' experience across AI, data and software engineering, including 3+ years leading
• Experience operating beyond individual project leadership, with responsibility for technical
• Deep technical credibility: comfortable working in production Python, substantial codebases and
• Recent, personal experience architecting and building production AI systems: retrieval strategy
• Strong systems thinking: ability to reason through unfamiliar platforms and problems rather than
• Experience leading complex programmes or multiple concurrent engineering workstreams, with