Founding AI Engineer

• Building production-ready AI applications using LLMs and modern AI tooling
• Creating retrieval and knowledge-search systems that provide accurate, traceable answers
• Integrating AI capabilities with structured business data and analytical platforms
• Developing conversational AI experiences and intelligent workflows
• Establishing evaluation, monitoring and governance standards for AI solutions
• Identifying new use cases and helping shape the organisation’s wider AI strategy
• Working directly with end users to understand problems and deliver measurable outcomes
• Acting as the go-to AI specialist within the business

Nice-to-Have Experience

• Amazon Bedrock, OpenSearch or similar AI platforms
• Observability and monitoring for AI systems
• Automated testing and evaluation frameworks
• Multi-agent or orchestration frameworks
• SQL and data engineering capabilities
• GDPR, governance or regulated data environments

Why Join?

? Be the first AI Engineer in the organisation

? Shape the company’s AI strategy and technical direction

? Work directly with decision-makers and business leaders

? Build solutions that reach production and deliver genuine business value

? Significant autonomy and ownership from day one

? Opportunity to create the foundations of a future AI function

This role would suit an engineer who enjoys operating at the intersection of software engineering, data and AI, and who wants the opportunity to define how an organisation adopts AI rather than simply becoming another member of an existing team.

• Experience building and deploying AI or LLM-powered applications used by real users
• Strong Python engineering skills
• Experience with prompt engineering, tool calling and model integrations
• Experience designing and consuming REST APIs
• Knowledge of RAG, information retrieval and search technologies
• Strong understanding of structured data and analytical workflows
• Experience evaluating model performance and improving output quality
• Awareness of AI security risks including prompt injection, data leakage and access control
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

Run-Time Group have partnered with an established research and data-led business embarking on a major AI transformation journey.

This is a rare opportunity to become the first AI Engineer in the company, taking ownership of how AI is introduced, adopted and scaled across the organisation. You’ll have the freedom to influence technology choices, shape best practices and build solutions that directly impact both internal teams and customers.

Rather than joining a large, established AI function, you’ll be laying the foundations. If you’re excited by ownership, autonomy and the challenge of turning promising AI ideas into production systems used by real people, this role offers exactly that.

The Opportunity

The business sits on a wealth of proprietary research, market intelligence and structured data and is looking for an experienced AI Engineer to unlock its value through modern AI applications.

Working closely with Product, Engineering, Data and business stakeholders, you’ll lead the design and delivery of AI-powered products that help users search information, analyse data, automate workflows and generate trusted insights.

This is a highly practical role focused on solving real business problems, not building demos that never leave the prototype stage.