PoliceAI: Senior AI Engineer

Salary
£78,000 – £85,000 pa
Job Type Contract
Work Pattern Full-time
Work Location Remote
Seniority Senior
Posted 9 Oct 2026 (Today)
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Salary
£78,000 – £85,000 pa
Job Type Contract
Work Pattern Full-time
Work Location Remote
Seniority Senior
Posted 9 Oct 2026 (Today)
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Location
Remote working (anywhere in the UK)
Salary: £78,000 to £85,000 (including a £10,000 market rate allowance), plus a further £5,000 for candidates based in London.
About The Job
Job summary
This post is open to applicants who can meet the College’s nationality, UK residency and vetting requirements.
About Us
PoliceAI is a nationally significant technology and transformation programme in UK policing. Backed by central government investment and positioned at the heart of the police reform agenda, PoliceAI is the new National Centre for AI in Policing, helping to shape how policing uses data, technology and artificial intelligence to tackle crime, protect the public and modernise frontline operations.
We bring together operational policing, technical expertise, product delivery, assurance and the responsible use of AI to develop and scale capabilities that improve public safety outcomes. Our work helps forces respond more effectively to demand, strengthen investigations, identify risk and harm earlier, and free up frontline time for the activities that matter most to communities.
This is an opportunity to contribute to a programme with national reach and meaningful public service impact, helping to define how AI is developed, governed and adopted across one of the UK’s most important public services. The work is varied and complex, moves at pace, and has the potential to deliver better tools for policing, better outcomes for the public, and stronger foundations for the responsible use of AI.
PoliceAI is hosted within the College of Policing.
About The College Of Policing
Our mission is: Leadership, Standards, Performance. This guides our work with individuals, forces, and policing partners towards our vision. We exist to support police officers, police staff and volunteers to deliver the best service to the public. Only through high quality leadership, consistent standards and continual performance improvement can everyone in policing reach their full potential. Our mission guides our work with individual, forces and partners towards our vision.
We offer a supportive and inclusive environment for people to thrive through our extensive flexible-working policy, employee wellbeing support, family friendly policies, and status as a disability confident leader.
Location
Remote working (anywhere in the UK). Please note, some travel may be required.
Job Description
We are looking for people who are motivated by public service, interested in responsible innovation, and comfortable working collaboratively across organisational, operational and technical boundaries. Joining PoliceAI means contributing to a supportive, multidisciplinary team that is helping to shape the future of policing and ensure AI is used in ways that are effective, responsible, operationally useful and worthy of public trust.
As a Senior AI Engineer at PoliceAI, you will lead hands-on engineering across both AI product development and support for testing, evaluation, verification and validation (TEVV). Working with end-users, product owners and subject matter experts, you will translate policing needs into technical solutions and the engineering capability needed to assess AI products.
You will build secure, maintainable and scalable services, while working with Data Science & Evaluation to develop reusable test harnesses, integrations and tooling for TEVV of internally developed and third-party AI products. Collaborating with platform engineers, software engineers, user-centred designers and governance colleagues, you will support repeatable assessment of system performance, limitations and suitability for intended policing use.
Reporting to the Head of Engineering, success means owning complex engineering delivery across product development and TEVV support, remaining hands-on in code and raising quality through design review, reusable patterns and coaching AI Engineers to support trusted AI adoption across England & Wales policing.
Additional Information
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.
Due to our status as Public Servants, we are not eligible to participate in the Civil Service transfer process. Therefore, while successful candidates can transfer into the organisation on their existing terms and conditions, any move back to the Civil Service may mean that continuity of service is not automatically recognised by the receiving department, and new starter or modernised terms and conditions may apply, subject to the receiving department's policies and arrangements. However, employees who move directly to a Civil Service department without a break in service may retain continuity of service for redundancy and pension purposes.
Any previous service with local government or other external Modification Order bodies will not be carried forward or count when calculating redundancy entitlement.
The College embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we comply with the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) and apply the minimum selection criteria at sift stage of the recruitment process. Where necessary, we may increase the minimum selection criteria to support the effective management of the recruitment process, while ensuring our approach remains fair, transparent and consistent with our Disability Confident commitments.
Person specification
Some Of Your Responsibilities Will Include
Leading the design, development and deployment of AI-enabled products, translating operational needs into scalable, secure and effective technical solutions.
Building and maintaining reusable testing, evaluation and integration tooling to support the TEVV of internally developed and third-party AI products.
Making technical decisions across architecture, data flows, APIs, model deployment, security and performance, ensuring solutions are fit for policing use.
Supporting live AI services through monitoring, automated testing, incident resolution and continuous improvement.
Providing technical leadership, coaching engineers and working with multidisciplinary teams to improve engineering standards and delivery quality.
To be successful in this role you’ll need
Proven experience leading the end-to-end delivery of complex AI or machine learning solutions from user need through to production deployment and measurable outcomes.
Strong technical expertise in Python, AI/ML frameworks, AI application patterns and modern software engineering and MLOps practices.
Experience developing testing, evaluation or comparable tooling that supports the assessment and assurance of AI systems.
Experience designing, integrating and operating AI-enabled services, data pipelines and APIs within cloud-based environments
The ability to provide technical leadership, coach others and communicate technical decisions, risks and findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Please see theattached job description which contains full details of the role. Please read the key criteria section in the job description (linked with the advert) carefully before applying. Applications will only be considered from candidates who can clearly demonstrate that they meet the essential requirements outlined for the role.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
Changing and Improving
Making Effective Decisions
Seeing the Big Picture
Benefits
The College is a great place to work. We're passionate about our people and offer a wide range of benefits. The benefits we can offer include:
Defined benefit pension scheme with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Up to 31.5days holiday (this is in addition to 8 public holidays and 1 privilege days)
Role-specific learning and development, with continued professional development to help you progress your career
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave*
Flexi-time (for certain grades)
MyLifestyle platform which offers a wide range of shopping discounts with major retailers and includes access to discounted gym memberships, National Dental Plan, AXA Healthcare and the Cycle to Work scheme*
Interest free season ticket loans*
Rewards and recognition scheme
An environment with flexible working options
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
Please note benefits marked with an asterisk are available to College employees only. If you join us on a secondment, you will retain the terms and conditions of your substantive employer and will be eligible for all other benefits listed.
We also have a number of thriving staff networks that provide the opportunity for advice, support and to drive change. A place to get your voice heard, share experiences and challenge our working practices to ensure equ

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