About this role
Salary: £120,000 - 150,000 per year
Requirements
- Experience leading engineering teams that have delivered LLM-powered generation systems in production
- Strong background designing multi-stage generation, validation, and evaluation pipelines
- Proven experience reducing generation costs through model routing, caching, and retrieval strategies
- Ability to lead architecture decisions and provide senior-level technical guidance
- Commercial awareness and confidence balancing technical and product priorities
- Experience with game development, game tooling, procedural generation, code-generation platforms, or prompt-to-application products is beneficial
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a multidisciplinary AI and engineering team
- Own the architecture of the end-to-end game generation pipeline
- Define evaluation frameworks, benchmarking, and playability testing
- Design feedback systems that use player behaviour to improve generation
- Drive model routing, optimisation, and cost-reduction strategies
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to shape the technical roadmap
- Set technical direction and own the roadmap for the game-generation platform
Technologies
- AI
- LLM
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Were recruiting for a startup at a pivotal stage of growth, where the Head of AI will lead development of the technology behind a platform that uses AI to create short-form browser games. The role is based in London and remote initially, with a transition to hybrid working in London after six months. The salary range is £120,000–£150,000, plus equity, private health and dental cover, a gym allowance, and a commuting season ticket loan. We welcome applications from all suitable candidates. The advertised salary is a guide; the final offer will depend on the successful candidates experience, qualifications, and skills.
last updated 45 week of 2026