Technical Lead

Tech Lead | Applied AI - LegalTech £90,000 – £130,000 + EMI Equity - Remote

We have partnered exclusively with an exceptionally well-funded, revenue generating Legal AI scale-up building sophisticated AI products for the global legal industry.

As they expanding their product offering we are seeking a hands-on AI Tech Lead to take ownership of their next-generation AI platform.

What are we doing?

This isn't another basic chatbot or a superficial API wrapper.

The team has engineered a proprietary agent architecture that enables law firms to analyse and reason over massive volumes of regulated data. From complex medical records to 10,000+ page document sets, their platform generates high-fidelity summaries, answers nuanced questions, and automates workflows that previously took days of manual effort.

With proven product-market fit and commercial revenue already rolling in, they are now scaling.

The Role

As Tech Lead, you will take technical ownership of the AI platform, leading a nimble team of three AI Engineers while remaining deeply hands-on. You will own architectural decisions, drive technical quality, collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to shape the roadmap, and pioneer new AI features.

What You’ll Be Working On:

• Production RAG: Architecting robust RAG systems over highly regulated datasets.
• Large-Scale Querying: Document extraction and advanced retrieval across massive payloads.
• Complex Summarisation: Distilling intricate medical and legal documents without losing critical context.
• Agentic Workflows: Designing agent-based architectures and autonomous case-handling systems.
• Evaluation & Trust: Developing LLM evaluation frameworks, benchmarking, and automated QA to ensure ironclad reliability in regulated environments.
• Optimisation: Fine-tuning model performance and infrastructure cost-efficiency.

The Tech Stack:

• AWS & Amazon Bedrock
• Anthropic Claude & other frontier models
• Advanced RAG & Agent architectures
• LLM Evaluation frameworks & Structured outputs
• .NET / C# (Nice to have, but not essential)

What We're Looking For:

• Shipped Product: A proven track record of moving AI products beyond PoC into production.
• AI Expertise: Deep experience with LLMs, RAG, and complex document understanding.
• Quality Obsessed: Experience evaluating and iterating on LLM outputs (e.g., LLM-as-a-Judge, benchmarking).
• Cloud Native: Strong AWS experience, ideally leveraging Bedrock.
• Leadership Traits: Prior technical leadership experience, or a senior engineer ready to step up.
• Commercial Mindset: Comfortable speaking with customers, holding a startup mentality, and maintaining a strong bias for action.
• Industry Context: Experience in regulated sectors (Legal, HealthTech, InsurTech, FinTech) is a massive bonus.
• Knowledge of: EU AI Act and ISO 42001 (great to have)

What’s on Offer:

• Base Salary: £90,000 to £125,000
• Equity: 0.5% to 1.0% EMI options
• Flexibility: Remote-first culture
• Healthcare: Comprehensive AXA private healthcare
• Perks: Bonus scheme and EV salary sacrifice scheme both launching soon
• Impact: Genuine ownership of the AI strategy and future team growth in a high-growth scale-up

Interested?

To find out more, apply directly or reach out to Mo for a confidential chat:

📧 Email: [email protected]

📞 Phone: 0203 773 6498

Must be eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship