Motorway

Senior Generative AI Engineer

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3 days ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own AI features from ambiguous problem definition through reliable, observable production systems.
  • Build retrieval and data foundations and treat retrieval quality as a core engineering problem.
  • Design evaluation and monitoring approaches for quality, reliability, and safety.
  • Build AI applications and agents using LLMs, orchestration, APIs, and data systems.
  • Make and document decisions about models, operating cost, and latency.
  • Prototype quickly, identify reusable patterns, and harden them into shared components.
  • Improve engineering quality through code reviews, design feedback, and technical standards.
  • Explain technical decisions to product managers and stakeholders in terms of business consequences.

Requirements

  • Experience shipping AI or ML systems that real users depend on and understanding their production failure modes.
  • Strong Python skills and practical SQL experience for assembling grounding data, building golden datasets, and investigating failures.
  • Software engineering experience including testing, error handling, CI/CD, observability, and MLOps practices.
  • Hands-on experience with LLM APIs, retrieval and vector stores, tool-using agents, and structured outputs on cloud infrastructure.
  • Ability to evaluate model failures such as hallucination and prompt injection and assess their consequences.
  • Ability to choose appropriately between models and simpler solutions and to stop when appropriate.
  • Constructive code review and collaboration skills.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary.
  • Equity scheme.
  • 25 days of holiday.
  • Flexible working with 2 days per week in the London office.
  • Private medical insurance via BUPA.
  • Life assurance.
  • Pension scheme with a 5% employer contribution.
  • Enhanced family leave, including 26 weeks of full pay for maternity or adoption.
  • 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
  • EV leasing scheme.
  • Cycle to work scheme.
  • Nursery salary sacrifice scheme.
  • One paid volunteering day per year.
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