AI Engineer/Technical Lead

TL;DR

AI Engineer / Technical Lead (GenAI): Guiding the technical direction of multiple applications within our engineering landscape, combining expertise in AI, data engineering, and modern software development with leadership skills. Focus on shaping AI capabilities, influencing architectural decisions, and delivering high-impact solutions that support critical business functions.

Location: Hybrid, based from our offices in London, United Kingdom, with the flexibility to spend some of your working week at home.

Company

SEFE is an international energy company ensuring the security of supply and driving the decarbonisation of its customers, spanning the energy value chain from origination and trading to sales, transport, and storage.

What you will do

• Lead the engineering strategy across a portfolio of applications, ensuring robust implementation of industry standards and best practices.
• Work directly with business stakeholders to understand requirements and ensure technical solutions deliver real business value.
• Coordinate technical dependencies across multiple applications and teams.
• Conduct detailed code reviews and establish processes to maintain high code quality across the team.
• Contribute to the long-term development roadmap, helping define patterns, principles, and strategies that drive ongoing improvements.

Requirements

• Extensive experience building and deploying AI solutions, including complex algorithm development and data-driven model creation.
• Strong knowledge of supervised and unsupervised learning, CNNs, RNNs, and model evaluation techniques.
• Proficiency in data modelling, data engineering, and exploratory data analysis.
• Expertise in cloud computing, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python, NumPy, Pandas, ML.NET, and the wider data/ML ecosystem.
• Strong communicator, capable of explaining complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with streaming APIs is an advantage.
• Understanding of the commodities trading space is beneficial but not essential.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive environment that embraces diversity and fosters the development of knowledge, skills and experience.
• Competitive starting salary supported by a comprehensive, and broad reaching benefits package which includes bonus earning potential.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and 2 volunteering days.
• Medical and dental insurance.
• Committed to supporting your career growth with opportunities to develop both your knowledge and experience through a blended approach to learning.