Director of Artificial Intelligence
2 days ago
Liverpool
Director - Agentic AI 🚀 Start-up team housed within a leading global consulting firm 🚀 Pioneering Agentic AI product development 🚀 Globally recognised leadership at the bleeding edge of Agentic AI 🚀 Stratospheric career growth 💸 £160k - £200k car allowance, sign on bonus & annual bonus 📍 Liverpool / travel required We’re hiring a deeply technical, hands-on Director of Agentic AI to lead the design, development, and deployment of advanced multi-agent systems that go far beyond prototypes and into robust, real-world production for large-scale enterprise and government. This role requires an extremely high-performing, ambitious individual, comfortable with high levels of ambiguity, a ferocious pace and rising client demand for Agentic AI solutions. This individual will shape technical direction, define engineering standards, and remain actively involved in building next-generation AI systems. You’ll work with world-class technical AI engineering teams to deliver solutions that drive meaningful impact across complex organisations and industries. What You’ll Lead & Deliver • Architect end-to-end multi-agent systems from scratch using frameworks such as ReAct, CoT loops, LangGraph, and MCP., • Build and productionise agentic AI solutions with strong evaluation, observability, and orchestration., • Scale deployments across diverse environments (SQL-based workflows, pandas, RAG pipelines, distributed compute)., • Define evaluation standards: Pass@N, multi-run testing, retriever benchmarking, component diagnostics, and quality gates., • Lead client-facing engagements, delivering workshops, assessments, and adoption roadmaps., • Provide technical leadership to engineering teams, ensuring delivery quality and driving adoption of new methods and tooling., • Stay ahead of frontier innovation, experimenting with the latest LLM, orchestration, and agent-design research. What You Bring Required • Advanced degree in AI, Computer Science, or similar (MSc/PhD)., • Several years of experience delivering agentic AI, ML, or AI engineering systems in production., • Strong track record of leading complex technical delivery while remaining hands-on., • Solid software engineering foundations: deployment, observability, monitoring, memory orchestration, optimisation., • Familiarity with agentic architectures (ReAct, CoT loops, LangGraph, tool orchestration)., • Excellent communication skills with the ability to run workshops and shape technical direction. Preferred • Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, vector DBs, RAG, and distributed inference., • Background in dynamic, high-performance environments (start-ups or technical consultancies)., • Exposure to regulated industries or complex stakeholder landscapes., • Proactive mindset, comfortable driving work independently. This is a rare opportunity to steer and shape a cutting-edge Agentic AI capability—designing and deploying systems that influence large-scale, real-world operations across multiple sectors. You’ll join an ambitious, research-informed environment that encourages experimentation, technical excellence, and forward-thinking problem-solving.