AI Technical Lead | Staff Software Engineer | Principal AI Engineer | GenAI | £80k-£130k

167 Solutions Ltd

Bristol, UK

14 days ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Compensation

£80,000.0 - £120,000.0

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.adzuna.co.uk

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) JavaScript (Programming Language) .NET Framework Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure C Sharp (Programming Language) Cloud Computing Continuous Integration Information Engineering Extract Transform Load (ETL)

+32 more

Github Graph Database Python (Programming Language) Knowledge Management Node.Js NoSQL Software Product Management Standard Sql Search Technologies Software Engineering Data Streaming TypeScript Enterprise Search Enterprise Data Management Core Voice Platform Google Cloud Enterprise Software Applications Chatbots ReactJS Large Language Models Multi-Agent Systems Prompt Engineering Generative AI Event Driven Architecture AI Platforms Kubernetes HuggingFace Data Management Virtual Agents Terraform Docker Microservices

Job description

You’ll lead the design and delivery of enterprise AI products that solve genuine business problems rather than proof-of-concepts.

Projects include:

Enterprise AI Platforms
Agentic AI
AI Agents
Multi-Agent Systems
Voice AI
Conversational AI
AI Assistants
Document Intelligence
Intelligent Search
Knowledge Management
Enterprise Data Platforms
Workflow Automation
AI Product Development
Enterprise Software Modernisation

You’ll work closely with engineering, architecture, product and executive leadership, translating complex business challenges into scalable technical solutions.

You’ll mentor engineers, influence technical direction and help establish engineering best practice across the organisation.

Technology Environment

This organisation is technology agnostic.

You’ll likely have experience across several of the following technologies. Enterprise AI

Generative AI
GenAI
LLMs
Large Language Models
Foundation Models

Requirements

AI Agents
Autonomous Agents
Multi-Agent Systems
RAG
Retrieval Augmented Generation
Prompt Engineering
AI Evaluation
AI Observability
AI Governance
Responsible AI
AI Security
Guardrails
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Function Calling
Tool Use
AI Orchestration

AI Platforms

Experience with one or more:

OpenAI
Azure OpenAI
Anthropic Claude
Google Gemini
AWS Bedrock
Hugging Face
LangChain
LangGraph
Semantic Kernel
AutoGen
CrewAI
LlamaIndex
Pinecone
Weaviate
Milvus
ChromaDB

Cloud Platforms

Commercial experience with one or more:

AWS
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Enterprise Data

Data Engineering
Data Platforms
ETL
Vector Databases
Enterprise Search
Semantic Search
Knowledge Graphs
OCR
Document Processing
SQL
NoSQL
Streaming Data

Software Engineering

Strong experience across several of:

Python
TypeScript
Java
C#
Go
JavaScript
React
Node.js
.NET
APIs
Microservices
Event Driven Architecture
Kubernetes
Docker
CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code
GitHub Actions
Terraform

What We’re Looking For

You’ll bring:

Experience building enterprise AI solutions in production
Excellent software engineering fundamentals
Strong system design and architecture experience
Experience leading engineering teams or technical programmes
Ability to communicate effectively with business stakeholders, executives and engineering teams
Experience delivering AI products within regulated or enterprise environments
Commercial awareness and customer-facing experience
Passion for coaching and mentoring engineers

We’re looking for someone who can bridge business strategy with modern AI engineering.

Benefits & conditions

You may currently be working as:

AI Technical Lead
Staff Software Engineer
Staff AI Engineer
Staff Machine Learning Engineer
Senior Staff Engineer
Principal Software Engineer
Principal AI Engineer
Principal Machine Learning Engineer
Lead AI Engineer
Lead Software Engineer
Engineering Manager
AI Engineering Manager
Machine Learning Engineering Manager
AI Solutions Architect
Enterprise AI Architect
AI Platform Lead
AI Practice Lead
Applied AI Lead
GenAI Engineering Lead
AI Delivery Lead
Technical Lead
Technical Director
Head of AI Engineering
Head of Software Engineering
Lead Full Stack Engineer
Forward Deployed Engineer
Forward Deployment Engineering Team Lead
AI Consultant
Enterprise Architect
Solution Architect
Innovation Lead, * Join an established global technology organisation
Work alongside an international team of 50+ engineers
Significant investment into AI and Engineering
Greenfield AI programmes
Opportunity to influence technical strategy
Work with modern enterprise AI technologies
Hybrid working (2 days onsite)
Clear career progression
Competitive salary
Annual bonus
Excellent benefits
Flexible working culture

About the company

167 Solutions is partnering with a rapidly growing global technology organisation that is investing heavily in its UK AI Engineering capability.

With an established international engineering team of over 50 software and AI engineers, this is an opportunity to help shape the next generation of enterprise AI platforms, intelligent software and agentic systems being deployed into some of the world’s most recognised organisations.

We’re looking for an engineering leader who combines exceptional software engineering fundamentals with hands-on experience delivering enterprise-scale Generative AI solutions into production.

Whether your background is software engineering, machine learning, platform engineering or forward deployed engineering, we’re interested in hearing from you., 167 Solutions Ltd is acting as the recruitment partner on behalf of our client. We welcome applications from candidates with diverse technology backgrounds who have a passion for engineering excellence and enterprise AI.