Lead AI Engineer (ADL)

Join LSEG’s World-Check Risk Intelligence - Agentic Content Curation Platform

Empowering due diligence with trusted data and cutting-edge technology. World-Check Risk Intelligence provides accurate, reliable information and powerful tools to support compliance with due diligence obligations, including Know Your Customer (KYC) screening and anti-money laundering (AML) requirements.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Lead AI Engineer responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high-quality software solutions. This role emphasizes deep technical proficiency, innovation, and hands-on development, including advanced work in AI technologies such as prompt engineering and large language models (LLMs).

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop LLM orchestration and prompt engineering for complex, long‑running workflows.

• Design human‑in‑the‑loop mechanisms and ensure transparency and explainability of AI‑driven decisions.

• Develop robust evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and reliability engineering practices for LLM‑powered systems.

• Develop multi‑agent systems, including agent roles, coordination, memory management, and goal alignment.

• Integrate, optimize, and evaluate LLMs across agentic AI, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), and prompt management platforms.

• Build data pipelines and automation for ingesting, transforming, and monitoring diverse content sources.

• Collaborate closely with AI Product Management, UIUX Designer, Architecture, Data Acquisition, and Data Lakehouse Engineering teams.

• Stay up to date with emerging AI/ML frameworks, techniques, and tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

• Proven software engineering experience with a strong record of leading and delivering successful projects.

• Proficiency in modern programming language, such as Java or Python.

• Hands‑on experience with AI / LLM technologies, including prompt engineering, evaluation, fine‑tuning, embeddings, RAG, and model deployment.

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with modern observability practices, including metrics, distributed tracing, and log aggregation, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.

• Excellent problem‑solving, communication, and leadership skills.

Career Stage:

Senior Associate

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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