Platform · Senior → Principal
As AI Architect you own the technical blueprint that underpins every AutoThink product — from retrieval, evaluation and safety layers, through to model routing, cost governance and agentic orchestration. You set the standards the whole group builds on.
Location
Remote UK / Hybrid Rochdale
Type
Full-time
Salary
£110k – £160k
Team
Platform
The Work
A group-wide reference architecture for LLM, RAG and agent workflows deployed across 12+ live products.
Model-routing and cost-governance layer that decides which provider serves each request.
Evaluation harnesses and offline benchmarks that gate every production release.
Guardrails, PII handling and audit trails aligned with UK GDPR and ICO guidance.
Responsibilities
Own architecture reviews for every new AutoThink product line.
Set the standard for prompt design, retrieval, evaluation and observability.
Partner with product and engineering leads to translate business goals into AI systems.
Represent AutoThink externally on architecture, safety and responsible AI.
Requirements
8+ years engineering experience, 3+ shipping production LLM/ML systems.
Deep knowledge of transformer models, RAG, vector search and agent frameworks.
Track record designing systems at scale on AWS, GCP or Azure.
Strong opinions on evaluation, safety and cost control — with the receipts.
Excellent written and verbal communication; you can convince a board and a staff engineer in the same afternoon.
Nice to Have
Experience with multi-tenant SaaS and data isolation.
Published papers, patents or influential open-source work.
Prior CTO / Principal / Distinguished Engineer scope.
Stack
Where You'll Ship
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