Lead Generative AI Engineer at Motorway · London
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AWS
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GCP
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Python
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SQL
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You've set technical direction that other engineering teams actually adopted, and you can talk about where that worked and where it didn't.
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Deep, current expertise across the GenAI stack, including retrieval at scale, vector stores, agentic orchestration, multimodal work, evaluat
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You design systems that survive contact with production, and you've been on the hook when they didn't.
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A strong point of view on evaluation, including the difference between evals that catch regressions and evals that provide comfort.
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Your direct contributions set a quality bar for the people around you.
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You explain hard technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders without either condescending or losing the substance.
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Why they ask: Rigour.
How to answer: Metric choice, baselines, offline vs online tests.
Why they ask: Communication.
How to answer: Problem, approach, impact, limits.
Why they ask: Machine Learning is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
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Why they ask: AWS is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Opener to see how you frame your story.
How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
Why they ask: Checks judgement under pressure.
How to answer: Describe a concrete framework and one example of a trade-off you made.
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