AI Lead Engineer

AI Lead EngineerWFH/Hybrid Newcastle once per weekWe''re looking for a Lead AI Engineer to take a hands-on technical role within a major AI transformation programme.You''ll design and build production-grade AI solutions, including RAG pipelines, semantic search, vector/embedding infrastructure and generative AI capabilities, integrating them into complex cloud and legacy environments.What you''ll be doingBuilding and deploying scalable RAG and GenAI solutionsDeveloping LLM orchestration and agentic AI workflowsLeading engineering standards, code reviews and technical deliveryImplementing AI evaluation, guardrails and Responsible AI controlsBuilding secure, observable AI services with CI/CD and MLOpsMentoring engineers and transferring knowledge to internal teamsWhat we''re looking forStrong Python engineering skillsCommercial experience with LLMs, RAG, embeddings and vector searchLangChain, LlamaIndex or similar frameworksMLOps/LLMOps and automated AI evaluationAWS, Azure or GCPDocker, containers and Infrastructure-as-CodeExperience building secure, production-grade AI systemsPublic-sector experience and cloud certifications are desirable.Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the TandC''s, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at (url ..... full job details .....