N-iX is looking for a Lead AI Engineer to drive the design, evaluation, and evolution of AI-powered solutions. In this role, you will focus on building and scaling intelligent systems (including RAG-based and NLP-driven applications), while guiding clients through technical discovery, architecture decisions, and AI adoption strategies.
You will work closely with stakeholders to design and deliver AI-driven solutions that enhance business efficiency, streamline processes, and unlock value from data, while ensuring scalability, quality, and cost-effectiveness.
Responsibilities:
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Design and implement AI-driven systems within Palantir Foundry AIP, including RAG pipelines, LLM-powered applications, and NLP workflows for document understanding and knowledge extraction
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Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of AI solutions, from data ingestion and embedding generation to retrieval, reasoning, and response generation
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Collaborate with AI/ML engineers to productionize models and LLM-based solutions, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance
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Drive technical discovery and solution assessment, analyzing possible AI implementations, clarifying their architecture, and identifying risks and improvement opportunities
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Evaluate and optimize RAG pipelines, including retrieval quality, chunking strategies, embeddings, and hybrid search approaches
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Assess scalability, multilingual capabilities, and cost-performance trade-offs of AI systems
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Advise on AI architecture evolution, including platform choices, vendor dependencies, and potential migration paths
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Establish best practices for LLMOps / MLOps, including evaluation frameworks, prompt engineering, monitoring, and iterative improvement
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Ensure responsible AI practices, including data governance, security, and compliance considerations
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Mentor engineers and foster collaboration across AI, data, and product teams
Requirements:
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Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
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6+ years of experience in software engineering, with strong exposure to AI/ML systems
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Hands-on experience with LLM-based applications, RAG pipelines, or NLP systems
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Experience building multimodal AI systems, including working with text, documents, images, and/or other data types
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Experience developing AI solutions for multiple languages, including handling multilingual data, prompts, and evaluation
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Strong proficiency in Python and experience with AI/ML frameworks and tooling
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Experience designing and deploying scalable AI systems in production environments
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Understanding of vector databases, embeddings, retrieval strategies, and hybrid search
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Experience with MLOps / LLMOps practices, including model lifecycle management, evaluation, and monitoring
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Ability to perform technical discovery and communicate complex AI concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
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Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
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English Upper-Intermediate +
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Availability to work in UK time zone (GMT+1)
**Nice to have:
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Experience with Palantir Foundry
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Familiarity with distributed systems or large-scale data processing (e.g., Spark)
We offer:*
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Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
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A competitive salary and good compensation package
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Personalized career growth
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Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
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Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
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Education reimbursement
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Memorable anniversary presents
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Corporate events and team buildings
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Other location-specific benefits
*not applicable for freelancers