Anson McCade

Anson McCade

London

Senior AI

Full-Time£30,000 - 60,000 per yearhierUnited Kingdom
IT

Job Description

Salary: £30,000 - 60,000 per year

Requirements:
  • Extensive experience building and deploying AI or machine learning products in production.
  • Expert-level software engineering skills, particularly in Python.
  • Strong experience with LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, prompt engineering, and model evaluation.
  • Experience building cloud-native applications on Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
  • Strong understanding of MLOps, CI/CD, Kubernetes, containerisation, and scalable system architecture.
  • Experience integrating AI into customer-facing products.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Proven experience leading technical teams and mentoring engineers.
  • Experience within EdTech, SaaS, or digital consumer products.
  • Knowledge of adaptive learning, recommendation systems, or educational analytics.
  • Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, vector databases, and AI orchestration frameworks.
  • Understanding of responsible AI, privacy, and ethical AI development.
  • Passion for improving education through technology.
Responsibilities:
  • Define and deliver the technical vision for AI across our learning platform.
  • Architect and build scalable AI services using large language models, machine learning, and modern cloud technologies.
  • Develop intelligent learning experiences including personalised learning journeys, AI tutors, content generation, assessment, recommendations, and learner support tools.
  • Build production-ready AI systems with a strong focus on quality, reliability, security, and performance.
  • Collaborate closely with Product, Learning Design, Data Science, and Engineering teams to deliver customer-focused solutions.
  • Evaluate emerging AI technologies and identify opportunities to improve learner engagement and educational outcomes.
  • Establish engineering standards, AI governance, and best practices across our organisation.
  • Mentor senior engineers and help grow a high-performing AI engineering capability.
Technologies:
  • AI
  • AI Agents
  • AWS
  • Architect
  • Azure
  • CI/CD
  • Cloud
  • Support
  • Kubernetes
  • Machine Learning
  • MLOps
  • Python
  • RAG
  • Security

More:

We are a fast-growing online learning platform offering a permanent Senior AI Engineer role based in London with remote working. The role offers a salary of £90,000 to £110,000 and the opportunity to shape our AI strategy, define next-generation AI-powered learning experiences, and directly influence how people develop new skills, advance their careers, and achieve their goals. We work across product, engineering, data, and learning teams to build innovative, responsible, and scalable AI solutions for millions of learners.

last updated 36 week of 2026

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About Anson McCade

Anson McCade

Anson McCade

London

IT

Skills & Technologies

PythonGoScalaAWSAzureKubernetesGitCI/CDMachine LearningAILLMData Science

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