Senior Engineering Director - AI & Document Processing
UiPath
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
2 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
SeniorJob location
Remote
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Artificial Intelligence
Software as a Service
Code Review
Python
Machine Learning
TensorFlow
Software Engineering
PyTorch
Large Language Models
Kubernetes
Docker
Job description
- Define and communicate a multi-year vision that aligns product and state-of-the-art AI technology.
- Architect and govern a modern stack built on Python (70%), Rust (30%), PyTorch and Kubernetes.
- Oversee end-to-end model lifecycle, both offline and at runtime: data curation, pre-training, runtime model fine-tuning, evaluation and guard-railing
- Scale, coach and retain a high-performing organization distributed within a single time-zone; grow managers and ICs into future leaders.
- Continuously improve cost/latency trade-offs for large-scale inference and runtime, user-controlled fine-tuning.
- Evaluate and implement emerging AI technologies and methodologies, guiding the team to push the boundaries of Document Processing in enterprise environments.
Requirements
- Proven engineering pedigree. Former hands-on IC able to jump into code reviews or prototypes when needed.
- Deep production experience with modern ML platforms (PyTorch, TensorFlow) and container-orchestration (K8s, Docker).
- Demonstrated success delivering AI/ML products at cloud scale (SaaS) with rigorous SLAs.
- Track record of building or operating LLM infrastructure (vector DBs, RAG pipelines, model optimization, guardrails).
- Understanding of machine learning fundamentals and familiarity with transformers.
- 12+ years in software engineering, 5+ years leading multi-disciplinary teams, including remote or matrix setups.
About the company
Shaping the future of agentic automation
As the world moves into an agentic future—the UiPath Platform™ enables AI agents, robots, people, and models to work together harmoniously to revolutionize industries and enhance human potential.