Head of Medical Technology

AI Technical Lead Location: London / South West UK (Hybrid) Salary: £140,000 - £170,000 + Benefits Type: Permanent About 167 Solutions 167 Solutions is a specialist technology recruitment consultancy connecting organisations with exceptional talent across AI, Technology, CRM and Senior Leadership appointments. We partner with innovative start-ups, scale-ups and enterprise organisations that are transforming the way businesses operate through artificial intelligence, automation and modern software engineering. The Opportunity We are supporting a pioneering organisation that is building next-generation AI capabilities and looking for an experienced AI Technical Lead to drive the design, development and deployment of enterprise-scale AI solutions. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will shape technical strategy, influence architecture decisions and lead the delivery of cutting-edge AI products from concept through to production. You will work closely with executive stakeholders, product teams, engineers and data specialists to build scalable, secure and responsible AI systems that create measurable business impact. The successful candidate will combine strong software engineering foundations with deep expertise in machine learning, Generative AI, cloud technologies and modern AI infrastructure. Leading the technical direction of AI and Machine Learning initiatives across multiple business functions Designing, developing and deploying production-grade AI solutions Building and optimising Large Language Model (LLM) applications, RAG architectures and Agentic AI systems Developing speech-to-text, voice AI and accessibility-focused AI solutions Creating intelligent conversational experiences using modern AI frameworks Architecting scalable cloud-native AI platforms within AWS environments Building and maintaining robust MLOps pipelines and model governance frameworks Leading technical discovery workshops and AI strategy discussions Ensuring AI solutions are secure, compliant and aligned with responsible AI principles Mentoring AI Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers and Data Scientists Driving engineering best practice including CI/CD, testing, monitoring and observability Technical Experience RequiredArtificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Strong commercial experience designing, training, evaluating and deploying Machine Learning models Experience with Generative AI and Large Language Models Building Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) platforms Agentic AI and autonomous workflow development NLP, speech recognition and conversational AI solutions Fine-tuning and optimisation of AI models Model evaluation, monitoring and governance Python (essential) Vector Databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, ChromaDB or similar) AWS (essential) Data & Engineering SQL and NoSQL databases Data Warehousing and Data Lake architectures ETL and Data Pipeline development Monitoring and Observability platforms Leading AI, Machine Learning or Software Engineering teams Delivering complex AI programmes from concept to production Experience developing Voice AI platforms Accessibility-focused AI solutions Experience with multimodal AI models Knowledge of Responsible AI frameworks Experience building customer-facing AI products at scale Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related discipline Equivalent commercial experience will also be considered This is an opportunity to join a business making significant investment in AI innovation and enterprise transformation. You will have the autonomy to influence strategy, shape technical direction and build AI solutions that deliver real-world impact while working alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry. If you're passionate about Generative AI, cloud-native architecture, voice technologies and leading high-performing engineering teams, we'd love to hear from you. 167 Solutions – Connecting exceptional AI talent with exceptional opportunities.