Neurons Lab is hiring a Head of Engineering to lead, scale, and continuously reinvent our AI‑native engineering organisation. You will build a self‑sustaining function that delivers high‑quality, compliant, and reusable agentic solutions for financial services clients while maximising automation and team leverage.
What You'll Do
- Hire, onboard, and retain A‑player AI Architects and AI engineers.
- Empower AI architects and engineers with clear decision rights, context, and AI‑native tooling for autonomous execution.
- Implement a skills‑matrix and personalised growth plans; coach next‑generation tech leads.
- Make promotion decisions based on performance reviews anchored in objective contribution metrics.
- Promote a culture of continuous learning through regular 'Agentic AI dojo' sessions, conference sponsorships, and internal certifications.
- Provide technical oversight through senior AI Architects across all client engagements; sign off on architecture and go‑live readiness.
- Staff projects with the right talent mix; optimise utilisation of core team members.
- Update, automate, and collect AI engineering health indicators via a fully instrumented MLOps telemetry stack.
- Establish and iterate the AI‑native SDLC: LLM‑assisted coding & test generation, agentic design patterns, self‑healing pipelines, prompt‑ops, red‑teaming, security & compliance.
- Orchestrate autonomous AI agents to automate internal engineering and business routines.
- Maintain reference architectures and reusable component libraries; achieve ≥75% code reuse across all new work.
- Convert learnings from services projects into IP that reduces future build effort by > 40%.
- Own the design, packaging, and optimisation of Neurons Lab solutions.
What We're Looking For
- Expertise in AI‑native software engineering & agentic architectures.
- Expertise in MLOps automation and observability.
- Expertise in large‑scale AWS optimisation (SageMaker, Bedrock, EKS).
- Expertise in regulatory & security compliance for Financial Services Institutions (FSI).
- Expertise in organisational design and talent development.
- Expertise in KPI‑driven process improvement.
- Strong strategic thinking & systems‑level problem‑solving skills.
- Knowledge of core‑banking, insurance, and asset‑management data flows & systems.
- Knowledge of LLM orchestration patterns and prompt engineering best practices.
- Knowledge of foundations of traditional machine learning and ML models training from scratch.
- Knowledge of financial‑services regulatory frameworks.
- Knowledge of AWS Marketplace packaging and Advanced‑Tier Partner requirements.
- Knowledge of code‑quality measurement and secure SDLC principles.
- Experience leading AI/ML engineering teams from 15 to 50+ in the FSI domain while maintaining velocity.
- Experience delivering production agentic AI systems with ≥ 90% accuracy & < 5s latency.
- Experience deploying autonomous AI agents that automated ≥ 40% of engineering/business processes.
- Experience establishing, maintaining and improving engineering standards and quality measures.
Technical Stack
- AWS SageMaker
- AWS Bedrock
- AWS EKS
- MLOps telemetry stack
Team & Environment
You will lead AI Architects and AI engineers, scaling the team from 15 to 50+ members.
Neurons Lab is an equal opportunity employer.
