https://jobs.co.uk/job/ai-lead-engineer-hays-technology--ba89e1c8-33a0-4bf2-8c5e-3d6eabe59bf9 RSS feed for AI Lead Engineer at Hays Technology. en-gb Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:27:03 GMT https://jobs.co.uk/job/ai-lead-engineer-hays-technology--ba89e1c8-33a0-4bf2-8c5e-3d6eabe59bf9 https://jobs.co.uk/job/ai-lead-engineer-hays-technology--ba89e1c8-33a0-4bf2-8c5e-3d6eabe59bf9 Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:52:40 GMT Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne | Salary: 450.00-450.00 Daily | Type: Contract | 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... Contract