Lead AI Engineer

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November 4

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Kainos

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At Kainos we use technology to solve real problems for our customers, overcome big challenges for businesses, and make people’s lives easier.

1001 - 5000 employees

💰 Venture Round on 1986-04

📋 Description

• Architect, design, and deliver advanced AI solutions leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning, generative and agentic AI technologies. • Drive the adoption of modern AI frameworks, AI Ops best practices and scalable cloud-native architectures. • Collaborate with customers to translate business challenges into trustworthy AI solutions and ensuring responsible AI practices throughout. • Mentor junior developers and foster a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and engineering excellence. • Manage, coach, and develop a small number of staff, focusing on employee performance and career development. • Provide direction and leadership for your team as you solve challenging problems together.

🎯 Requirements

• A minimum of a 2.1 degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Statistics or in a similar quantitative field. • Demonstrable experience of deploying modern AI /ML solutions into production, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), model evaluation, and monitoring using metrics (e.g. precision, recall, NDCG and drift detection). • Strong Python skills with a grounding in software engineering best practices (CI/CD, testing, code reviews etc). • Experience developing solutions at scale on cloud platforms (Azure & AWS), containerisation and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Docker. • Expertise in data engineering for AI: handling large-scale, unstructured, and multimodal data. • Understanding of responsible AI principles, model interpretability, and ethical considerations. • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to lead client projects and establish requirements in non-technical language. • Experience in managing, coaching, and developing junior members of a team and wider community.

🏖️ Benefits

• Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives