Staff Applied AI Engineer

London, UK💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-30 → 2026-09-26

Core

Define standards for responsible AI, model governance, and production MLOps; architect high-reliability AI systems for public sector clients; act as senior technical partner on AI strategy.

Role type

Staff Applied AI Engineer (Public Sector)

Builds

Production-ready AI agents, fine-tuned models, evaluation methodologies, and MLOps practices for government and sovereign clients.

Domain

Public Sector / Government / Regulated AI

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

AI/ML system ownership in production, model governance, MLOps, agent architecture, fine-tuning, hallucination mitigation, auditability, executive stakeholder management, technical roadmap planning, team coaching

Preferred skills

Experience with regulated/on-premise AI deployment, building reusable AI capabilities, resolving severe model safety incidents

Technologies

MLOps frameworks, agent platforms, fine-tuning tools, evaluation libraries

Responsibilities

Define and adopt standards for AI evaluation and MLOps; architect systems to prevent systemic failure; build reusable AI capabilities; advise on AI development adoption; coach senior engineers; represent AI work externally

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope

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About scaleai

At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Ernst & Young, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.