Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Join LSEG's Corporate Engineering AI team as a Lead Machine Learning Engineer. In this role, you will be responsible for scaling safe, high-quality AI capabilities across the enterprise. You will own and operate core AI platforms, deliver a production-grade agentic AI platform, and establish evaluation, quality control, and governance mechanisms. The ideal candidate will have strong Python development experience, hands-on experience with LLM and agent frameworks, and practical understanding of Model Context Protocol (MCP).

• Lead the development and operation of core AI platforms, including LSEG AI Assist and the Question Answering Service (QAS).
• Establish evaluation, quality control, and governance mechanisms for MCP tools and Skills to ensure they can be promoted and operated at scale.
• Collaborate with product engineering groups to expose knowledge, data, and actions to AI agents in a consistent, governed, and repeatable way.
• Strong Python development experience
• Hands‑on experience with LLM and agent frameworks and agentic reasoning patterns
• Practical understanding of Model Context Protocol (MCP), including server and tool patterns
• FastAPI and REST API design and implementation experience
• Experience with prompt engineering and RAG‑based architectures
• Containerisation and Kubernetes‑based deployment experience
• Ability to work across platform, product, and governance boundaries in an enterprise environment