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Lead Generative AI Engineer

London💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-02 → 2026-09-25

Core

Set technical standards and build complex, production-grade Generative AI systems for a car-selling platform, focusing on retrieval, evaluation, and agentic workflows.

Role type

Lead Generative AI Engineer (Player-Coach)

Builds

Agentic workflows, LLM-powered dealer tooling, retrieval patterns, evaluation infrastructure, and data pipelines for a marketplace.

Domain

Automotive sales marketplace / Generative AI

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Python, SQL, Generative AI stack (retrieval at scale, vector stores, agentic orchestration, multimodal work, fine-tuning), MLOps, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP), system design for cost/latency, technical leadership

Preferred skills

Architecture standard setting, mentoring senior engineers, stakeholder communication, industry insight

Technologies

Python, SQL, AWS, GCP, Vector stores, MLOps tools

Responsibilities

Set architecture standards for complex GenAI work, hold sign-off on complex AI systems, own shared foundations (retrieval, eval, data pipelines), build hardest pieces of work directly, design for production resilience and cost efficiency, develop senior engineers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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