Lead AI Engineer

Company: Capco
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you will lead the design and delivery of cutting-edge AI systems for financial services, blending AI/ML engineering with software development. You’ll architect, deploy, and operate generative and agentic AI solutions within enterprise environments, and guide cross-functional teams toward GenAI adoption. You’ll work at scale, optimizing performance and latency while shaping how clients leverage AI to transform their systems. This is a hands-on leadership opportunity in a collaborative, entrepreneurial consulting culture.

Pay / Benefits

  • Discretionary bonus
  • competitive pension
  • health insurance
  • continuous learning
  • 5 weeks of annual leave
  • Cycle to Work

Responsibilities

  • Architect and develop autonomous AI systems integrating multi-modal LLMs (text, image, audio, video)
  • Design agentic workflows enabling AI agents to interact with data sources and APIs using prompt engineering and RAG
  • Fine-tune, optimize, and deploy large language and multi-modal models with a focus on performance and latency
  • Build scalable MLOps pipelines and full-stack applications to support robust, production-grade AI deployments
  • Guide multidisciplinary teams and clients through strategic decisions in AI engineering and GenAI adoption

Key requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, AI, or related STEM fields
  • Hands-on experience deploying LLMs and multi-modal models at scale
  • Strong engineering background in Python with proven backend and API development skills
  • Solid understanding of scalable MLOps, observability, and cloud-native AI deployment
  • Excellent communication, problem-solving, and project management skills in agile environments
  • communication
  • problem-solving
  • project management
  • Python backend/API development
  • LLMs and multi-modal models
  • MLOps

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Posted: October 1st, 2026