AI Engineering Lead

AI Engineering Lead – Automation & n8n Bolton | Hybrid – 1-2 days a week onsite AI Engineering | n8n | LLMs | GenAI | Agentic AI | Automation | Technical Leadership We’re looking for a hands-on AI Engineering Lead to lead an established team of three AI Engineers and help shape how AI and automation is engineered across the business. This is very much a technical role. You’ll still be building, coding and solving complex engineering problems, while providing technical direction to the team and putting the standards and engineering practices in place as the AI capability grows. There are two things we really need - strong AI engineering experience and genuine hands-on n8n expertise. n8n is a strategic platform for the business, so we’re looking for someone who has built with it in a production environment and understands what good looks like beyond individual workflows. You’ll help establish the framework around n8n, creating reusable patterns and standards and making sure solutions are reliable, resilient and built to scale. The Role: Leading the technical design and delivery of AI, LLM and GenAI solutionsRemaining hands-on with coding and complex engineering workEstablishing the n8n design and implementation frameworkCreating reusable workflow patterns, components and engineering standardsImproving monitoring, alerting, resilience and reliability across AI and automation solutionsProviding technical leadership, mentoring and 1:1 support to three AI EngineersReviewing technical approaches and ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, maintainable and production-readyWorking alongside wider internal and offshore technical teamsHelping manage performance, priorities, resourcing and cost across the AI engineering function What we're looking for Strong hands-on n8n experience, including using it as a production automation platformCommercial experience building and deploying AI/LLM solutions into productionExperience with Generative AI, RAG, agentic AI or AI-powered workflowsStrong workflow automation, API and systems integration experienceA strong software engineering/coding backgroundExperience with monitoring, alerting, error handling and resilienceExperience with Azure, AWS or GCPExperience establishing technical standards and engineering best practiceExperience leading, mentoring or technically supporting engineersA good understanding of security, data and compliance within AI delivery Experience with other automation technologies such as Power Automate, Blue Prism or UiPath would be useful alongside n8n, but isn’t essential. You might currently be a Senior AI Engineer, Lead AI Engineer, AI Automation Engineer, AI Engineering Lead, Intelligent Automation Engineer or Senior Automation Engineer. If you’re a strong engineer who has built with n8n, delivered AI solutions into production and wants to stay hands-on while taking technical ownership of a growing AI engineering capability, we’d love to hear from you. At Noux Talent, we believe recruitment should be inclusive by design. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to creating an accessible recruitment process. If you need any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know. We’re happy to make the process work for you.