Job description
Principal AI Engineer
12-month contract / Outside IR35 / Remote anywhere in Europe.
We're hiring a Principal AI Engineer for a top-tier financial institution building out enterprise-grade agentic AI capability. You'll be hands-on in designing and building individual AI features and agent capabilities while also owning the architectural decisions that enable those features to scale safely across the business: permissioning, approval workflows, monitoring and feedback loops, dry-run/simulation before production execution, and governance that satisfies both engineering and compliance.
What you'll be doing:
- Designing and building production AI/agent features, not just prototypes
- Defining how agents get approved, monitored, and improved once live
- Architecting the guardrails that stop an agent from breaking systems or corrupting data
- Working closely with product teams to translate business goals into secure, scalable technical design
- Embedding governance and compliance thinking into the core architecture, not bolting it on after
What we're looking for:
- Senior/Staff/Principal level engineering experience, still genuinely hands-on with AI projects
- Real production experience with LLM/agent systems at scale, not just proof-of-concepts
- Azure experience preferred but open to other cloud platforms.
- Investment management experience a strong plus
- Excellent communicator
- Comfortable starting your working day at 7-8am UK/EU time
- Based in Europe, able to work remotely
- Available to start within 1 month
Process:
- 1) Intro / Screening call
- 2) Technical deep dive
- 3) Stakeholder interview
