AI Engineering Lead

Ideagen

AI Engineering Lead at Ideagen shaping AI-driven solutions for regulated industries. Leading engineering teams to develop reliable, user-focused agentic systems.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeNottingham • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ReactTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Leading a multidisciplinary team of AI Engineers and AI Experience Engineers, supporting both technical delivery and professional development
Setting the technical direction for the AI Agentic Experience, including architecture, tooling, and quality standards across agent and frontend layers
Overseeing the design and implementation of agentic systems, including intent handling, orchestration, and multi-step workflow management
Ensuring seamless integration between backend agent logic and frontend user interactions for a consistent, intuitive experience
Defining how systems handle uncertainty and failure, including confidence thresholds, escalation paths, and graceful degradation
Driving engineering quality through testing strategies, performance optimisation, and reliable deployment practices
Collaborating with product and design teams to align engineering decisions with user needs and practical use cases
Communicating progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly to stakeholders across technical and non-technical teams

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience leading engineering teams delivering production AI systems or complex user-facing applications
Strong understanding of agentic systems, including context management, session lifecycle, and multi-turn interactions
Hands-on experience with LLMs and agent frameworks, with familiarity in tools such as LangGraph or similar approaches
Confidence working across both backend and frontend domains, with working knowledge of technologies such as React and TypeScript
Ability to make informed architectural decisions that balance innovation, reliability, and user trust
A user-focused mindset, with the ability to translate complex requirements into clear and practical engineering solutions
Strong communication skills, with experience collaborating across engineering, product, and design functions
Awareness of quality, compliance, or regulated environments where clarity and accuracy are critical.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Benefits at Ideagen

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI systemsagentic systemscontext managementsession lifecyclemulti-turn interactionsLLMsagent frameworksReactTypeScriptperformance optimisation

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationcollaborationuser-focused mindsetproblem-solvingdecision-makingrisk managementadaptabilityclaritystakeholder engagement