AI Lead Engineer WFH/Hybrid | Newcastle once per week We're looking for a Lead AI Engineer to take a hands-on technical role within a major AI transformation programme.You'll design and build production-grade AI solutions, including RAG pipelines, semantic search, vector/embedding infrastructure and generative AI capabilities, integrating them into complex cloud and legacy environments. What you'll be doing Building and deploying scalable RAG and GenAI solutions Developing LLM orchestration and agentic AI workflows Leading engineering standards, code reviews and technical delivery Implementing AI evaluation, guardrails and Responsible AI controls Building secure, observable AI services with CI/CD and MLOps Mentoring engineers and transferring knowledge to internal teams What we're looking for Strong Python engineering skills Commercial experience with LLMs, RAG, embeddings and vector search LangChain, LlamaIndex or similar frameworks MLOps/LLMOps and automated AI evaluation AWS, Azure or GCP Docker, containers and Infrastructure-as-Code Experience building secure, production-grade AI systemsPublic-sector experience and cloud certifications are desirable. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at (url removed)