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Lead AI Engineer - GCP / Machine Learning / AI Agents

Mackenzie Jones IT
Euston, London, NW1 2EA, United Kingdom
3 days ago
£85,000 – £90,000 pa

Salary

£85,000 – £90,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
Remote
Seniority
Lead
Education
Degree
Posted
24 Jul 2026 (3 days ago)

Benefits

Performance bonus up to 15% Flexible remote working Occasional travel to South-East / South London Long-term progression opportunities
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Lead AI Engineer - GCP / Machine Learning / AI Agents

£85k - £90k + Up to 15% Bonus + Benefits - Permanent

Remote UK - Flexible remote working model - Occasional travel to the South-East / South London region

Must be Eligible to work in the UK - Cannot Provide Sponsorship

We're currently supporting a large consumer-focused organisation undergoing significant investment across AI, Machine Learning & Cloud Engineering capability. As part of this growth, we're looking to identify an experienced Lead AI Engineer to help shape, build and deliver scalable AI-enabled solutions across the organisation.

This role would suit someone with a strong Software Engineering background who has evolved into AI / Machine Learning Engineering and is comfortable operating across both hands-on technical delivery & technical leadership. Alongside remaining hands-on, you'll help mentor AI Engineers, establish engineering best practice and support the delivery of enterprise-scale AI solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Design and develop AI-enabled Applications & Services

Build scalable AI & Machine Learning solutions within a GCP environment

Lead the technical direction of AI Engineering initiatives

Provide technical leadership, mentoring and coaching to AI Engineers across the wider team

Help establish engineering standards, best practice and code quality across AI Engineering

Collaborate closely with Digital Products, AI, Data & business stakeholders

Support the development of AI Agents and intelligent automation capabilities

Drive Engineering best practice across cloud-native AI delivery

Help transition AI Proof of Concepts into secure, scalable production solutions

Contribute towards architecture, experimentation and proof-of-concept initiatives Required Experience

Strong Software Engineering background (Python preferred)

Commercial AI / Machine Learning Engineering experience

Hands-on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience

Experience deploying ML / AI solutions into production environments

Understanding of modern AI frameworks & LLM ecosystems

Exposure to AI Agents, Agentic AI workflows and/or Google ADK highly desirable

Strong stakeholder engagement & communication capability

Previous technical leadership, mentoring or experience leading Engineering teams would be highly beneficial Desirable Technologies

GCP / Vertex AI

Gemini

Python

AI Agents / ADK

Machine Learning Frameworks

APIs & Microservices

Docker / Kubernetes

CI/CD Pipelines

LLM Orchestration Frameworks Additional Information

Bonus potential up to c.15%

Opportunity to join a growing AI capability within a large-scale Enterprise environment

Opportunity to combine hands-on AI Engineering with technical leadership and mentoring

Excellent long-term progression potential as the AI function expands #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEngineering #LeadAIEngineer #MachineLearning #ML #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #AIAgents #LLM #LLMEngineering #VertexAI #GCP #GoogleCloud #Python #CloudEngineering #MachineLearningEngineer #TechJobs #Hiring #RemoteJobs #UKTech #DataEngineering #SoftwareEngineering #DigitalTransformation

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