Offre d'emploi Lead AI Engineer - Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government - G7

As a Lead AI Engineer, you'll have:

• A passion for utilising data and AI responsibly for the public good and to improve citizens lives

• Experience building end-to-end LLM applications (prompt engineering, data models, API integration, input/output handling, training, monitoring)

• Python expertise: strong experience with core libraries and writing clear, modular, reusable code with error handling and logging

• Cloud and tooling skills: experience working with Azure or AWS; and familiarity with version control (Git/GitHub), command line, and IDEs

• Software engineering practices: unit testing (e.g. pytest), code reviews, and general good practice in collaborative development

• Applied data science skills: strong grounding in statistics and a range of standard techniques (supervised/unsupervised ML, cross-validation, time-series, NLP basics, SQL)

• Communication skills: able to explain technical work clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, manage active and reactive communication, support or host difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders

• Delivery and collaboration skills: proactive, self-motivated, organised, and effective at working to deadlines as part of a team 

• Proven and relevant professional experience in a data science or related field, or a combination of qualifications/certifications and experience that demonstrates technical capability

Darlington, London, Manchester, Wolverhampton

AI technology is rapidly evolving and there is immense opportunity to harness this capability to transform delivery at MHCLG. The new AI directorate at MHCLG is driving forward AI development and adoption across the department and support to partners in local government. 

We are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic lead AI engineer to join our team and be at the leading edge of AI delivery in a central government department, to deliver high-impact projects at pace to improve outcomes and productivity. You will unlock new approaches through the adoption of AI tools and techniques to build the evidence base that drives smarter, more impactful decisions. You will contribute to the discovery, pilot, implementation and scaling of AI projects by the Directorate, developing models for secure, ethical and effective AI tools that deliver high value opportunities and improve outcomes. 

You will join a multi-disciplinary team of technical experts (including data engineers, data scientists, developers, user research, delivery managers, service owners) with an ambitious and exciting remit to harness the potential of AI, working on high impact projects that deliver operational efficiencies and support policy development through the rapid prototyping and scaling of products and services. You will be forward deployed , working collaboratively across the organisation and with external partners, interacting with a range of stakeholders to explore, build and maintain foundational AI capability and champion the role and impact of AI in the process. 

Find out more about our Digital teams and what they are working on through our .  Please note that MHCLG do not offer visa sponsorship and applicants will need a valid visa for the duration of your employment.