Head of AI

Salary: £59,000 - 99,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of modern AI workloads, model deployment, inference, and optimisation
• Proven experience leading and mentoring high-performing engineering teams
• Expertise designing scalable AI platforms, developer tools, and production-grade systems
• Comfortable working closely with hardware, systems, and product teams
• Deep experience with Python and C/C++ in performance-critical environments
• Familiarity with AI frameworks, compilers, runtimes, and tooling
• Background in AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, semiconductors, systems software, or deep-tech environments
• Experience hiring, developing, and scaling engineering organisations

Responsibilities:

• Join a highly talented team to develop a breakthrough computing platform
• Help bring a groundbreaking compute platform to market
• Define the AI software strategy for a rapidly growing engineering organisation
• Influence product direction, technology decisions, and long-term roadmap planning
• Solve complex technical problems at the intersection of AI, systems engineering, and next-generation computing

Technologies:

• AI
• Hardware
• Python

More:

We are an innovative deep-tech company developing next-generation computing technology designed to overcome some of the biggest performance and efficiency challenges facing modern AI. We are building a new class of AI acceleration platform that enables complex workloads to run faster, more efficiently, and at significantly lower cost than traditional approaches. This is a senior leadership opportunity to join a highly talented team, shape the AI software strategy, and help bring a well-funded breakthrough compute platform to market. The role offers the chance to work on demanding AI infrastructure challenges alongside hardware, systems, and product teams, with competitive compensation including salary, equity, and benefits.

last updated 36 week of 2026