AI Technical Lead

Salary: £80,000 - 80,000 per year

Requirements:

• We are looking for an experienced technical lead or senior backend engineer with genuine experience delivering AI functionality into production.
• Experience with C#/.NET and Microsoft Azure would be valuable in our established product environment.
• We also welcome strong backend engineers working with Python, Java, Go, or Node.js who understand distributed systems and production AI architecture.
• We need someone who can work effectively across technologies.
• You should combine hands-on engineering depth with the ability to lead others, make architectural decisions, and communicate technical trade-offs clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, RAG, agentic workflows, Semantic Kernel or Microsoft Agent Framework, vector databases, evaluation frameworks, and responsible AI controls would be particularly useful.

Responsibilities:

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across a multidisciplinary AI engineering team.
• Shape the architecture and technical direction for AI across our product suite.
• Lead the delivery of LLM, RAG, and agentic AI solutions.
• Take ideas from discovery and proof of concept through to production.
• Establish standards for evaluation, security, observability, governance, and cost control.
• Work directly with product and operational stakeholders to turn high-level problems into deliverable solutions.
• Mentor engineers, review designs and code, and remain actively involved in development.
• Assess where AI adds genuine value and challenge its use where a conventional solution would be better.

Technologies:

• Agentic AI
• AI
• Azure
• Backend
• C#
• Support
• Java
• LLM
• Python
• RAG
• Security
• ASP.NET
• NodeJS
• Cloud
• PLC

More:

We are an established software business at the beginning of a major AI transformation, with the backing of a large international technology group and the freedom and visibility of a close-knit R&D team. This is a mostly remote role, with occasional visits to our Bristol office, offering salary up to £80,000 plus bonus. We offer the opportunity to build and lead a new AI engineering capability, with genuine influence over architecture, recruitment, and the AI roadmap. Our benefits include Perkbox, a Cycle-to-Work scheme, 24/7 employee support, and a sabbatical option after two years. This is a hands-on leadership role with real product ownership and the chance to build AI that reaches real customers.

last updated 38 week of 2026