171 jobs for “leader”
CrowdStrike Ireland
Leads a team of three data scientists building machine learning and agentic AI systems for threat detection, malware analysis and security automation. Sets technical standards and strategy for ML development, deployment and monitoring, while staying hands-on with Python, big data and cloud infrastructure.
CrowdStrike Reading £140,000 – £215,000 pa
Lead a growing team of engineers building self-service infrastructure-as-code primitives, high-availability platforms and cloud cost optimisation across a multi-cloud environment. The role combines people management, on-call ownership and hands-on architecture of large-scale distributed systems, with hybrid working near Reading.
Anthropic London £255,000 – £325,000 pa
Founding leader for Anthropic's Forward Deployed Engineering practice, hiring and developing a team that embeds with strategic enterprise customers to ship production AI applications. Player-coach role balancing technical review, architecture oversight and hands-on debugging with setting standards, building repeatable playbooks and partnering with Sales, Product and Engineering. Requires travel to customer sites 25-50% of the time.
The Alan Turing Institute London £96,000 – £115,000 pa
Provides scientific and strategic leadership for the AI for Physical Systems research area, shaping a portfolio spanning probabilistic modelling, uncertainty quantification, efficient architectures and physics-informed machine learning. Leads a multidisciplinary team of researchers and engineers, taking methods from foundational research through to deployment on real-world resilience challenges, and builds collaborations across academia, government and industry.
The Portfolio Group Manchester
Set the AI vision and roadmap while staying hands-on, architecting and deploying machine learning and generative AI solutions into production. Work spans RAG, LLMs, vector search and knowledge graphs, plus building a cross-functional team and establishing AI governance. Based fully on-site in Manchester, reporting into senior leadership.
Synoptix Bristol £65,000 – £85,000 pa
Lead the technical vision and delivery of bespoke AI research programmes, spanning object detection, neural network resilience, AI assurance and synthetic data. Day-to-day work includes high-throughput vision systems on NVIDIA Jetson hardware, CUDA/TensorRT acceleration, multi-modal thermal and optical sensing, and real-time tracking, while guiding junior engineers and engaging senior stakeholders.
OpenAI London
Lead a team of senior Applied AI Architects acting as the technical "CTO of the book of business" for OpenAI's largest enterprise customers across North EMEA. Own technical account strategy, resource allocation and paths to production across ChatGPT Enterprise, the API, Codex and agentic solutions, while coaching the team and serving as an executive technical sponsor.
Noir Abingdon US$170,000 – US$195,000 pa
Take full ownership of the technology function at an early-stage AI venture, making key architectural decisions and building a founding engineering team. The platform combines proprietary data, real-time insights and advanced AI (LLMs, RAG, AI agents) for a specialised luxury and wealth intelligence market. The role blends hands-on engineering with founder-level strategy and equity.
Noir London £160,000 – £180,000 pa
Take full ownership of the technology function at an early-stage AI venture, making key architectural decisions and building a founding engineering team. The platform combines proprietary data, real-time insights and advanced AI, with work spanning LLMs, RAG pipelines, AI agents, data infrastructure and cloud architecture. It is a hands-on founder role rather than a traditional management position.
eFinancialCareers London
Leads the design, development and operation of high-rigor analytical and machine-learning systems across a complex, regulated financial-services estate, defining the AI/ML roadmap while remaining hands-on. Owns the full model lifecycle from feature engineering and back-testing to deployment, monitoring and incident response, with models expected to be explainable and production-grade. Works closely with engineering, data platform and product teams, mentoring other data scientists with limited line management.
Anthropic London £190,000 – £230,000 pa
Lead and grow a distributed EMEA team of Applied AI Architects, setting pre-sales standards and acting as technical lead on strategic digital-native accounts. The role involves use case scoping, POCs, demos, and guiding customers through GDPR, EU AI Act, and data residency requirements while partnering with Sales, Product, and Engineering.
Luminance London
Owns the roadmap and acts as the expert voice for a product area within a Legal AI platform, translating challenges from legal, compliance, procurement and finance teams into scalable AI-powered workflows. Leads kick-off and playback sessions with AI engineers, designers and legal experts, and uses tools like Lovable and Figma to prototype and validate designs before build.
Luminance Cambridge
Sits between product, AI teams and customers, using a legal background to shape product innovation for a legal-grade AI platform. Works with blue-chip clients to ensure they get maximum value from the technology and acts as a strategic partner to leadership. A rare bridge role for lawyers moving into a tech career.
Wayve London
Lead the Applied Methods Data Science team, partnering with the Autonomy organisation to turn experimental and observational analysis of real and simulated driving into evaluations and insights. Set three-, six- and 12-month roadmaps, review technical proposals for statistical rigour, hire and grow data scientists, and build tooling to scale the team's capability.
Quantum Group London £42,000 – £45,000 pa
Analyse aged-receivables, debtor and payment data to identify credit and counterparty risk, estimate expected losses, and assess liquidity and cash-flow exposures. Build Python statistical models for default prediction, run stress tests, and develop Power BI dashboards tracking debtor days and collection rates. Maintain the risk register, prepare monthly leadership reports, and support audit and compliance work.
