Senior AI Engineer

Quantum
United Kingdom
Hybrid

Who this role is best for

Geared toward AI engineers comfortable with multi-agent system design and real-time marketing challenges, with a preference for candidates experienced in GCP and collaborative environments in London.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with experience in Ad Tech or Mar Tech and a track record in multi-agent system design
    — “Experienced in software engineering, ideally in Ad Tech, Mar Tech, or similarly complex and high-scale environments
  • Individuals who thrive in regulated environments and can balance innovation with compliance
    — “compliance-first mindset, delivering value and simplicity to millions
  • Engineers who value mentorship and knowledge-sharing within a team-driven culture
    — “You do your best work as part of a team and enjoy sharing knowledge just as much as gaining it

Things to consider

  • Requires a hybrid work model with 3 days in-office per week in London
    — “Hybrid Working (3 days in office)
  • Candidates must be able to handle ambiguous objectives and translate them into technical workflows
    — “translate ambiguous business objectives into discrete agent personas, tool definitions, and behavioural boundaries

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with multi-agent system design and agentic workflows in your resume and interviews
    — “Advanced Agentic Workflows: Research and implement agentic design patterns
  • Demonstrate a history of deploying AI in real-time marketing environments, such as ad targeting and bidding
    — “designing, developing, and deploying AI systems that power personalised advertising
  • Emphasize your background with GCP services and AI Ops practices in your application materials
    — “Practical experience with GCP services or AWS equivalent such as Vertex AI, BigQuery ML
  • Showcase your ability to ensure model reliability and security in production systems
    — “Monitor and optimise multi-agent systems in production, tracking agent-specific metrics
  • Demonstrate your capability to mentor junior engineers and champion best practices
    — “Support and develop junior engineers and help champion best practices
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • designing scalable AI solutions
  • deploying AI systems
  • optimizing multi-agent systems
Typical background
software engineeringAI research

Skills & requirements

Required

AI EngineeringMulti-agent SystemsAgentic WorkflowsPerformance MonitoringSecurity ComplianceGCP ServicesCi/cd For Ai/mlModel VersioningAI Ops Practices

Preferred

Marketing And Advertising Concepts

Stack & domain

AI SystemsGoogle Cloud Platform (gcp)Vertex AIBigquery MLDataflowAI Platform PipelinesDataprocSupervised LearningUnsupervised LearningReinforcement LearningPrompt EngineeringLanggraphAutogenCrewaiCollaborationMentorshipNullAd TechMar TechMarketingAdvertising

About the role

Original posting from Quantum via Ashby

Our Company

At Quantum, we connect global brands with high-intent consumers. We turn intent into action and complexity into clarity.

Our Mission is clear, to help smarter, faster buying decisions. Our vision, to be the world’s most used digital comparison service, delivering value and simplicity to millions.

We drive growth through data-driven affiliate marketing built for performance from day one. Every campaign is measurable, optimised in real time, and designed to scale.

With in-house tech, full-stack analytics, and a compliance-first mindset, we give our partners an edge. We drive confident decisions and growth in regulated and high-growth sectors. We’ve helped ambitious brands grow faster, smarter, and globally.

The Role

We're looking for an experienced Senior AI Engineer to join our team.

You'll be at the forefront of designing, developing, and deploying AI systems that power personalised advertising, customer journey analytics, audience segmentation, and real-time bidding strategies.

Working closely with BI, data engineers, and product teams, you'll help build scalable AI solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes for some of the world's most recognised brands. Our infrastructure is powered by Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and we take pride in applying cutting-edge AI techniques to real-world marketing and advertising challenges.

Key Responsibilities

  • Architecture & Multi-Agent Design: Design, build, and deploy scalable multi-agent systems and generative AI features for Mar Tech challenges including ad targeting, user segmentation, and content personalisation.
  • Advanced Agentic Workflows: Research and implement agentic design patterns such as planning, reflection, and tool usage using orchestration frameworks like LangGraph, AutoGen, or CrewAI.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely across the organisation to translate ambiguous business objectives into discrete agent personas, tool definitions, and behavioural boundaries.
  • Performance & Guardrails: Monitor and optimise multi-agent systems in production, tracking agent-specific metrics including token efficiency, execution loops, and tool-calling accuracy to ensure system reliability.
  • Security & Compliance: Maintain high standards for data security, model explainability, and mitigation of agent-specific risks such as prompt injection and unintended tool execution in compliance with GDPR and CCPA.
  • Mentorship & Best Practices: Support and develop junior engineers and help champion best practices in agent-oriented programming, prompt engineering, model evaluation, and scalable cloud infrastructure.

About You

  • Experienced in software engineering, ideally in Ad Tech, Mar Tech, or similarly complex and high-scale environments
  • Experience building multi-agent or single-agent architecture with integrations to APIs and/or MCPs
  • A good understanding of supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning methods alongside experience working with foundation models and prompt engineering
  • Practical experience with GCP services or AWS equivalent such as Vertex AI, BigQuery ML, Dataflow, AI Platform Pipelines, and Dataproc
  • Practical experience with CI/CD for AI/ML, model versioning, monitoring, and AI Ops practices
  • An understanding of marketing and advertising concepts such as customer lifetime value, attribution modelling, real-time bidding, and audience targeting is a plus
  • Familiarity with data pipeline orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow and Kubernetes is a plus
  • You do your best work as part of a team and enjoy sharing knowledge just as much as gaining it
  • Confident navigating ambiguity and a fast moving environment
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Collaborative and grounded, you value the perspectives of others and create space for everyone to contribute

What You’ll Get

  • Private Health Care (Bupa)
  • Hybrid Working (3 days in office)
  • Travel Insurance
  • Competitive Base Salary
  • Company Bonus Scheme
  • Paid for AI Subscription (Claude / ChatGPT / Gemini)
  • Market-Leading Training Programme
  • Recognition & Reward Scheme
  • Annual Company Conference
  • Regular Happy Hours & Team Lunches
  • Free Coffee, Drinks & Snacks

What’s the next step?

Our hiring process ensures we're recruiting the right people for the role. We ensure that people are as suitable for us as we are for them.

If you like the sound of what we're all about at Quantum and want to join a team where you can make an impact, please apply or contact us at careers@quantum.media.

Source: Quantum careers (Ashby)

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