Lead AI Engineer

Lead AI Engineer (Senior/Principal Consultant)
Location: Edinburgh (Hybrid) | Practice Area: Technology & Engineering | Type: Permanent

Empower the next frontier of AI with Capco. Shape, build, and deliver future-ready generative systems.

The Role
We’re looking for a Lead AI Engineer (Senior/Principal Consultant) to join our Technology Delivery Team. You’ll combine your expertise in AI/ML engineering and software development to build and deploy cutting-edge generative AI and agentic systems across the financial services sector. As a hands-on leader, you’ll architect AI solutions, embed them within enterprise environments, and drive impactful outcomes through advanced engineering, scalable pipelines, and deep cross-functional collaboration.

This role will sit in our Scotland office, with a need to potentially work in either Glasgow or Edinburgh depending on client expectations.

What You’ll Do

• 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

What We’re Looking For

• 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

Bonus Points For

• Experience with agentic frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIn