Lead AI Engineer

About Us Bauer Media Outdoor, a leader in the advertising world, boasts an impressive portfolio across 12 markets. Our mission is to “Create tech that makes a difference- empower teams, delight customers, shape the media world of tomorrow” to revolutionise the media landscape, focusing on data-driven innovations and robust infrastructure. Technology is at the heart of our operations, emphasising transparency, accountability, and value. Our goal? To be the industry-leading technology team, renowned for customer-centric, reliable, fast, flexible, and innovative solutions. Come, be a part of our journey to redefine media! About the role We are hiring an experienced Lead Engineer to join our AI Enablement team at Bauer Media Outdoor. This is a genuinely hands on technical role, focused on designing, building and deploying AI enabled software solutions that are used across the organisation. You will work closely with Product Leads to shape and deliver real solutions, including building custom AI Assistants within our internal generative AI platform, Bauer AI Chat. You will be accountable for technical problem solving, system design, AI integration and delivering production quality code that creates clear business value. You will be exploring and experimenting with new and emerging AI technology, building, shipping and owning practical, technical solutions to real business problems that are used in practice. Key Responsibilities Solve Real Problems Design and build AI enabled applications that address genuine business needs rather than theoretical use casesIntegrate AI services such as Azure OpenAI and Perplexity AI into production systemsDevelop APIs, backend services, service integrations, automation workflows and data pipelines that enable AI capabilitiesBuild and maintain custom AI Assistants for Bauer AI Chat with a focus on security, reliability and user experience Turn Ideas into Production Partner closely with Product Leads to take ideas from discovery through to deliveryTranslate ambiguous business problems into clear, scalable technical solutionsPrototype, experiment and iterate quickly based on user feedback and performance dataDeploy AI driven features into live environments with a focus on speed, quality Own the Outcome Write clean, well-tested, production ready code and set a high engineering standardOwn system design, delivery and ongoing evolution end to endResolve complex engineering challenges across performance, scalability and integrationBuild and operate reliable infrastructure using practical DevOps and MLOps practicesMonitor, optimise and continuously improve AI solutions in productionMentor engineers and raise capability across AI solution development, design and deliveryCommunicate technical decisions clearly to non-technical audiences.Support adoption and rollout by ensuring robust integrations and smooth user experiences. Skills & Experience 8 + years of professional software engineering experience with strong backend expertiseStrong proficiency in Python and cloud-native development (Azure preferred).Proven experience integrating AI or LLM based services into production systemsExperience in machine learning or computer vision is beneficial but not essentialSolid understanding of distributed systems, APIs, microservices and secure software designExperience with DevOps or MLOps tooling including CI CD, Docker, Kubernetes, monitoring and loggingComfortable owning complex technical problems and driving them through to delivery What Success Looks Like AI enabled applications and Bauer AI Chat Assistants are live in production and actively used, delivering clear, measurable value to teams across the businessNew ideas move from concept to production quickly and predictably, with meaningful use cases delivered in weeks or even days rather than monthsThe underlying platforms and services are reliable, scalable and able to support growing AI driven workflows without constant reworkTechnical solutions clearly map back to real business problemsSystems are well structured and maintainable, making it faster and easier to build the next wave of AI enabled capabilities What’s In It For You? Out-of-home Advertising is a well-established medium undergoing a digital revolution, and one we believe we are uniquely positioned to capture. You will be at the forefront of this journey, working with your peers to lead the way. As part of this you will get to grow and learn by working with the latest tech, joining with innovate partners, and working with great colleagues on a day-to-day basis. The package will also include: Hybrid working model with regular office presence to build team culture and relationships.25 paid holidaysCompany Pension Scheme paid up to 8%Healthcare Cash PlanLife Insurance and group income protection schemeCycle to work schemeEnhanced Maternity & Paternity Cover