Kainos

Lead AI Engineer

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2 months ago
Remote, United Kingdom +2 moreStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Architect, design, and deliver advanced production-grade AI and machine learning solutions.
  • Apply generative AI, agentic AI, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, model evaluation, and monitoring techniques.
  • Drive adoption of modern AI frameworks, AI operations practices, and scalable cloud-native architectures.
  • Develop AI solutions at scale on Azure and AWS using Kubernetes and Docker.
  • Handle large-scale, unstructured, and multimodal data for AI applications.
  • Lead client projects and translate business challenges into trustworthy AI solutions in non-technical language.
  • Ensure responsible AI, model interpretability, security, privacy, and ethical practices throughout delivery.
  • Manage, coach, and develop a small number of staff and provide direction and leadership for the team.
  • Foster innovation, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.

Requirements

  • A minimum of a 2.1 degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Statistics, or a similar quantitative field.
  • Demonstrable experience deploying modern AI and machine learning solutions into production.
  • Experience with prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, model evaluation, and monitoring metrics such as precision, recall, NDCG, and drift detection.
  • Strong Python skills and grounding in software engineering best practices, including testing and code reviews.
  • Experience developing scalable solutions on Azure and AWS with Kubernetes and Docker.
  • Expertise in data engineering for large-scale, unstructured, and multimodal AI data.
  • Understanding of responsible AI principles, model interpretability, and ethical considerations.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to lead client projects and establish requirements in non-technical language.
  • Experience managing, coaching, and developing junior team members.
  • Preferred experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, LLM fine-tuning or distillation, GPT, Llama, Claude, Gemini, scikit-learn, and XGBoost.
  • Preferred experience with data storage for AI, vector databases, semantic search, and knowledge graphs.
  • Contributions to open-source AI projects or research publications are desirable.
  • Familiarity with AI security, privacy, and compliance standards such as ISO42001 is desirable.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureDockerKubernetesPythonPyTorchscikit-learnTensorFlowXGBoost
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