Principal AI Solution Engineer

Salary: £70,000 - 110,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience in a development-focused role, preferably within a game development and AI-specific context.
• Proven experience in a senior/principal development role delivering developer productivity tooling, platform integrations, or workflow automation in a complex organization.
• Proven experience integrating LLM-based tools and/or agentic workflows into real production environments with appropriate evaluation, monitoring, and guardrails.
• Experience building and operating integrations on cloud infrastructure, including CI/CD and modern deployment practices such as containers and Kubernetes; GCP is preferred.
• Experience working cross-functionally with engineering leaders, platform teams, and product stakeholders to ship solutions that are adopted.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and coding proficiency, with the ability to architect and implement end-to-end integrations that solve real workflow problems.
• Strong understanding of modern software delivery workflows, including code review, CI/CD, testing, and release practices.
• Practical understanding of reliability, observability, security/privacy considerations, and cost controls for AI-enabled systems and vendor tooling.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences and drive alignment across partner teams.
• Ability to independently prioritize, handle ambiguity, and drive work forward through partner alignment and clear trade-offs.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability, with the ability to define done and establish operational handoffs.
• Collaborative and proactive, with the ability to build relationships with studios, Shared Tech, and champions to scale adoption.
• Curious and pragmatic, comfortable learning new tools quickly while focusing on durable value.
• Bold and opportunity-driven, energized by working at King scale and proposing ambitious, high-leverage ideas grounded in practical delivery and measurable impact.
• Nice-to-have: familiarity with GCP-native AI services such as Vertex AI or enterprise integration patterns for vendor tooling.
• Nice-to-have: experience with modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow when useful for evaluation or prototyping.
• Nice-to-have: deep familiarity with game development pipelines and production constraints.
• Nice-to-have: familiarity with ethical AI considerations or regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and ship production-ready AI integrations that improve productivity across developer workflows, PR/code review assistance, testing support, documentation workflows, and developer enablement experiences.
• Participate in architecture discussions and design reviews.
• Translate AI possibilities into concrete integration points, reference implementations, and clear trade-offs.
• Collaborate with the AI Discovery Engineer, the AI User Experience Researcher, and the rest of the team to align development and integration efforts with Kings AI productivity and enablement strategy.
• Connect day-to-day implementation details with the larger organizational strategy to advance Kings AI-first transformation.
• Contribute to a small number of partnership-led, time-boxed PoCs to validate what is possible, capture learnings, and inform next steps for owning teams.
• Support clear handoffs when a PoC transitions toward productization rather than remaining the long-term owner.
• Maintain close alignment with internal teams, including game studios, Shared Tech, and support functions, by identifying needs, gathering feedback, and fostering consensus.
• Communicate clearly and proactively to ensure efforts align with the companys AI strategy and productivity goals.
• Create clear and comprehensive documentation for solutions to ensure smooth handovers and promote knowledge-sharing across the organization.

Technologies:

• AI
• Architect
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• GCP
• Support
• Kubernetes
• LLM
• Mobile
• PyTorch
• REST
• Security
• TensorFlow
• Embedded
• Python

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The ACE team, Kings AI Center of Excellence, accelerates our AI transformation by helping teams safely and productively adopt AI in daily work through shared practices, education, enablement, and partnerships across game studios, Shared Tech, and support functions. Our AI Discovery & Enablement team evaluates emerging AI technologies and commercial tools to improve productivity and speed up better player experiences by making AI normal across engineering workflows. We are looking for a Principal AI Solutions Engineer to deliver high-leverage, production-ready integrations and adoption mechanisms across King. King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world with more than 20 years of history, including Candy Crush and Farm Heroes Saga, with more than 200 million monthly active users. We are part of Microsoft and our teams are located across Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta.

last updated 34 week of 2026