Thinking Beyond Limitations
Principal AI Engineer
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United Kingdom
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20 hours ago
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Job Description
Principal AI Engineer
Kainos
Role Description As an AI Engineer Manager at Kainos, you’ll be responsible for successful delivery of advanced AI solutions leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning, generative and agentic AI technologies. You will drive the adoption of modern AI frameworks, AIOps best practices, and scalable cloud-native architectures. Your role will involve technical leadership, engaging with senior stakeholders to agree architectural principles, strategic direction, and system architecture. - Foster a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and engineering excellence. - Manage, coach, and develop a team with a focus on development of standards and policies. - Build enduring customer relationships and embed commercial acumen. - Provide direction and leadership for your team as you solve challenging problems together. Qualifications - A minimum of a 2.1 degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Statistics, or in a similar quantitative field. - Proven experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams to deliver AI/ML solutions to production. - Demonstrable experience of technical leadership for AI delivery including architecture, product design principles, and engineering excellence. - 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, manage C-level stakeholders, and establish requirements/architecture concepts. - Experience in managing, coaching, and developing junior members of a team and wider community. Requirements - Experience with the latest AI engineering approaches such as prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic AI, model evaluation, and monitoring using metrics (e.g. precision, recall, NDCG, and drift detection). Desirable - Demonstrable experience with modern deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow), fine-tuning or distillation of LLMs (e.g. GPT, Llama, Claude, Gemini), machine learning libraries (e.g. scikit-learn, XGBoost). - Experience with data storage for AI, vector databases, semantic search, and knowledge graphs. - Actively contributes to open-source AI projects, research publications, and industry events/websites. - Familiarity with AI security, privacy, and compliance standards e.g. ISO42001. - Experience of shaping commercial AI offerings, winning AI work, and wider pre-sales support. Benefits - We believe in the power of diversity, equity, and inclusion. - We are committed to building a team that is as diverse as the world we live in. - We actively seek out talented people from all backgrounds. - Our friendly talent acquisition team is here to support you every step of the way. - We encourage candidates to reach out for accommodations or adjustments during the recruitment process.
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