Multiverse - Principal AI Engineer, Edinburgh

Edinburgh, Scotland, Hybrid1w ago

In Office Principal EMEA Artificial Intelligence EdTech AI Engineer Principal Team Leadership Claude Full Stack

Requirements

• Production AI Agent Engineering • You’ve shipped multi-agent systems to real users. You understand context management, model selection and routing, cost engineering (token economics, caching, prompt optimisation), tool use and failure handling, multi-agent coordination, and evaluation frameworks for non-deterministic systems. This is depth, not familiarity. • Technical Strategy and Influence at Scale • You’ve set technical direction across multiple teams, not just within a single squad. You translate complex architecture decisions into business-relevant narratives for executive stakeholders. You’ve defined engineering standards that were adopted organisation-wide — not just recommended, but embedded. • Full-Stack Delivery • Full-Stack Delivery • You work across the stack — LLM integration, backend services, data pipelines, and enough frontend to ship end-to-end. You build with Claude Code daily, critically review AI output, and augment your tools with context and constraints to make them effective. • Product Instinct • Product Instinct • You don’t wait to be handed a roadmap. You identify which problems are worth solving, in what order, and why — and you make the case for building before anyone asks you to. • What Would Set You Apart • Background as a founding engineer or technical co-founder • Experience in EdTech, regulated content, or domains where AI output quality has compliance implications • Published thinking or external contributions in AI engineering — talks, writing, open source • Practical experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or equivalent agent integration standards

Responsibilities

• Own the AI agent architecture. Design the orchestration layer, memory and context management, evaluation framework, and integration APIs that all agent products build on. Your decisions are the ones others build on top of. • Own the AI agent architecture. • Ship production agents. You write and review code and own what goes to production. You’ll personally deliver at least one major agent system in your first six months. • Ship production agents. • Set the engineering standard. Define how Multiverse builds with AI — evaluation methodology, multi-agent coordination patterns, tool design, guardrails, and observability. You author the decision records and hold the bar. • Set the engineering standard. • Build the integration layer. Create the APIs, MCPs, and shared data contracts that connect agents to Multiverse’s platform, content systems, and internal tools — working closely with London engineering teams who own those systems today. • Build the integration layer. • Drive technical strategy. Translate product and business goals into a coherent AI engineering roadmap. Shape which problems we tackle, in what order, and why — then socialise it with engineering leadership and the exec team. • Drive technical strategy. • Raise the bar around you. You’re not a line manager, but your presence makes the engineers you work with measurably better. Code review, pairing on hard problems, setting the standard for what ‘good’ looks like in AI-native engineering. • Raise the bar around you.

Benefits

• Time off - 27 days holiday, plus 5 additional days off: 1 life event day, 2 volunteer days, 2 company-wide wellbeing days (M-Powered Weekend) and 8 bank holidays per year • Time off • Health & Wellness- private medical Insurance with Bupa, a medical cashback scheme, life insurance, gym membership & wellness resources through Wellhub and access to Spill - all in one mental health support • Health & Wellness • Hybrid work offering - for most roles we collaborate in the office three days per week with the exception of Coaches and Instructors who collaborate in the office once a month • Hybrid work offering • Work-from-anywhere scheme - you'll have the opportunity to work from anywhere, up to 10 days per year • Work-from-anywhere scheme • Space to connect: Beyond the desk, we make time for weekly catch-ups, seasonal celebrations, and have a kitchen that’s always stocked! • Space to connect: • Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion • We’re an equal opportunities employer. And proud of it. Every applicant and employee is afforded the same opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. This will never change. Read our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion policy here. • Our Commitment to Safeguarding • Multiverse is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our learners. We expect all employees to share this commitment and adhere to our Safeguarding Policy, our Prevent Policy and all other Multiverse company policies. Successful applicants will be required to undertake at least a Basic check via the Disclosure Barring Service (DBS). • For roles that will involve a Regulated Activity, successful applicants must also undergo an Enhanced DBS check, including a Children’s Barred List check and a Prohibition Order check. Roles involving Regulated Activity may interact with vulnerable groups, therefore are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 meaning applicants are required to declare any convictions, cautions, reprimands, and final warnings. • Providing false information is an offence and could result in the application being rejected or summary dismissal if the applicant has been selected, and possible referral to the police and the DBS.