Senior Staff AI Engineer

Job summary
Permanent contract
Manchester
A few days at home
Salary: Not specified
Experience: > 5 years
Skills & expertise
Adaptability
Coaching and mentoring
Collaboration and teamwork
Java
React
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Job description

  • As a Senior Staff AI Engineer on our Maia AI team, you’ll be at the heart of everything we do: designing agentic AI systems, leveraging evals to continually validate their performance as model capabilities evolve, building new tools and integrations, and staying finger-on-the-pulse with the latest developments in Gen AI
  • This isn’t BAU engineering – this is high-visibility, high-impact work where your decisions shape the product
  • You’ll be driving architecture, mentoring engineers, and feeding into strategy. Things move quickly here
  • Requirements evolve, new opportunities emerge, and we need someone who thrives in that environment. If you have been working on Agentic AI projects and taking them into production environments – and you want to do that at scale in a world-class engineering team – this is the role for you
  • Lead technical architecture and design for the Maia team - working within a squad to define direction, validate proposals, and ensure we’re building scalable, maintainable software at pace
  • Drive agentic AI feature development - building new tools, integrations, and workflows that push the boundaries of what Maia can do
  • Stay ahead of the curve on Gen AI developments - trialling new models, tools, and approaches, feeding insights into team strategy and championing new ways of working
  • Act as technical mentor and coach to engineers across the team - raising the bar through code reviews, design input, and hands-on guidance
  • Collaborate closely with our Product Manager and Data Science team to translate product vision into technical reality, balancing innovation with code quality and delivery pace

Benefits

  • A truly flexible & remote working culture
  • A culture that promotes work-life balance
  • Company Equity
  • Access to mental health support
  • 15 days PTO that increases to 25 after 12 months of service
  • 5 days paid volunteering leave
  • Health insurance
  • Life insurance
  • 401K
  • Career development with monthly “hackdays” and access to a Udemy account
  • A culture that promotes work life balance
  • Access to mental health support
  • 25 days holiday
  • 5 days paid volunteering leave
  • Pension
  • Career development with monthly hackdays, access to a Udemy account, Blinkist and much more

Preferred experience

  • Deep programming background, ideally with Java, combined with hands-on experience building scalable distributed systems on AWS - you write great code and think seriously about architecture
  • Adaptable and fast-moving - you thrive in an environment where requirements evolve, you’re comfortable with ambiguity, and you have a genuine bias for action when it comes to adopting and championing new technologies
  • Proven experience working on agentic AI systems - you understand how they differ from traditional systems, you’ve built and led features in this space, and you have a point of view on how to test and scale them
  • Full stack capability is a strong plus - particularly React, TypeScript, and Tailwind - and familiarity with frameworks like Langchain or Langgraph would be welcome
  • Technical leadership experience - you’ve been a tech lead, influenced architecture decisions, and helped other engineers grow; you can communicate complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders without breaking a sweat
  • Don’t tick every box? Apply anyway. We hire for potential, not just experience. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch

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