Head of Artificial Intelligence (London Area)

A fast-growing tech company, recently backed by $6m+ in Series A is transforming the Retail Industry through cutting-edge Visual AI.

They are now hiring aHead of AIto help them advance the next generation of Visual AI, achieving production-level performance for mobile and edge environments at scale.

Role Responsibilities

• Lead the roadmap for applied computer vision models, from synthetic training pipelines to real-time inference, optimised for diverse retail and CPG use cases.
• Oversee development across detection and recognition tasks, ensuring low-latency, high-accuracy performance under varied shelf conditions.
• Expand and refine our synthetic data generation strategies, enhancing generalisation through domain adaptation and robust pre-training.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Infrastructure, and Customer teams to ensure seamless field deployment.
• Grow and mentor a team focused on scalable architectures and automation.
• Drive the design of a highly generalisable large vision model optimised for dynamic retail environments.

Ideal Profile

• Proven experience shipping ML models into production, preferably on mobile or edge platforms.
• Hands-on background with synthetic data generation and large vision models (or strong interest in these areas).
• Strong bias for practical, impact-driven development over purely academic results.
• Ability to break down ambitious goals into executable technical strategies, leading teams with a focus on speed, collaboration, and reliability.

Nice-to-have Experience

• Leading high-performing engineering teams.
• Background in CPG, retail technology, or real-world applied computer vision.