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HFM

Head of AI Engineering

HFM

. Lead AI software engineers and AI process optimisation specialists .

Posted 9/24/2026full-timeLarnaca • CyprusLeadWebsite

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Demonstrates extensive experience in leading AI software engineering teams, with a strong focus on machine learning model production, cloud deployment, and AI process optimization. Proficient in managing technical quality, mentoring engineers, and driving AI adoption within regulated environments.

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Machine Learning Model ProductionStrong PythonCloud AI Services (AWS Preferred)DevOps and IT AutomationAI Process Optimization

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Hard Skills
Machine LearningLarge Language ModelsGenerative AIAPIs DevelopmentRetrieval Augmented GenerationVector SearchCI/CD PipelinesPrompt EngineeringData ProtectionModel Evaluation
Soft Skills
MentoringTechnical DirectionCommunication
Tools & Technologies
DockerPyTorchTensorFlowCloud DeploymentMonitoring Tools
Industry Keywords
Financial ServicesRegulated EnvironmentAI AdoptionData ClassificationAudit Trails

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudDockerMicroservicesPythonPyTorchTensorflow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead AI software engineers and AI process optimisation specialists
  • Provide technical direction, ensure code quality, conduct craft-focused one-to-ones and develop engineers
  • Own the technical quality of shipped work and provide technical input to performance reviews
  • Analyse IT and business workflows to identify valuable AI productivity opportunities
  • Establish signed process baselines before builds and report measured outcomes afterward
  • Deliver AI systems from design through production support
  • Maintain risk classifications, data classifications, evaluation sets, shadow-run results and audit trails
  • Prioritise, size and sequence the business-wide AI delivery backlog
  • Enforce data-layer permissions, centralized model access and audit logging
  • Lead architecture and security reviews early in the design process
  • Own runbooks, monitoring, on-call participation and post-incident follow-through
  • Own the internal AI platform, including prompt libraries, evaluation harnesses, reusable agents and shared components
  • Evaluate models, tools and vendors using benchmarks, cost, failure modes and data handling
  • Track live system running costs and retire systems whose benefits no longer exceed costs
  • Plan team capacity and produce the annual hiring proposal
  • Propose improvements to AI adoption, standardization and delivery frameworks
  • Serve as the technical point of contact between the AI function and IT
  • Mentor engineers and colleagues across the company in effective AI use
  • Report to the Chief AI Officer, with the Chief Technology Officer as functional owner

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 6+ years experience building software or data systems
  • 2+ years leading engineers as a manager or technical lead
  • Production experience with machine learning models, large language models or generative AI solving actual business problems
  • Strong Python
  • Production experience building services and APIs, orchestrating agents and tool use, and working with major model providers
  • Production experience with retrieval augmented generation and vector search
  • Experience with Docker, cloud deployment and CI/CD pipelines
  • Evaluation discipline covering regression, latency, cost, accuracy, hallucination and model drift
  • Practical command of retrieval, agents, tool use and prompt engineering
  • Clear understanding of when fine tuning is appropriate
  • DevOps and IT automation experience, including CI/CD integration, infrastructure automation and workflow tooling
  • Experience with REST APIs and AI-driven microservices
  • Experience with cloud AI and ML services; AWS preferred
  • Command of token and inference cost models at pilot and full-adoption scale
  • Data protection experience in a regulated environment
  • Ability to explain AI limitations and risks to decision makers
  • Experience evidencing business benefit against agreed baselines
  • Comfortable working across a dual reporting line
  • Applicants must be eligible or have legal authorization to work in Cyprus
  • Resumes must be submitted in English
  • Financial services or another regulated industry is advantageous
  • Experience training models with PyTorch or TensorFlow is advantageous, not required

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Hybrid Work Model (2 days working from home)
  • Comprehensive Health plan starting from the first day of employment
  • Pension plan
  • 13th salary payment
  • Additional Paid Annual Leave (up to 30 days, based on years of service)
  • Up to 5 Carry over annual leave days from previous year to the next one
  • Birthday Leave
  • Udemy Business access
  • Monthly Wolt Vouchers
  • Monthly meals & treats at the office
  • Participation in company's Group Discount Scheme
  • Gym Membership
  • Referral Bonus Program
  • Summer Short Fridays (August)
  • Visa Sponsorship and Relocation Assistance (If applicable)