Software Engineering, Lead – Generative AI (Image & Audio)

The role

You will lead a core team to enhance content generation systems using multimodal agents and AI models for image and audio capabilities. You will build agent-driven user journeys and design features driven by frontier models.

What you will do

• Contribute across the full software stack to deliver agent-driven user journeys to production
• Design and build features driven by frontier models using prompting, context, tools, and model reasoning
• Apply software engineering and system design principles to produce scalable and production ready solutions
• Validate solutions against functional requirements using evals and tracing
• Help drive product definition through ideation, exploration, and prototyping
• Conceive and ship features and MVP iterations
• Partner with product owners on project scoping and prioritization
• Facilitate the growth and mentorship of a core team of engineers
• Provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise on multimodal AI

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of professional programming experience in backend and application environments
• 2+ years of experience directly managing engineers
• Expert-level proficiency in Python or Typescript/Javascript
• Strong working knowledge of modern backend and web application frameworks like FastAPI, Node, React, or Rails
• Hands-on experience building AI and agent-powered features using frontier models from OpenAI, Google, and others including multimodal image and audio generation
• Direct experience refining product requirements in collaboration with a product owner
• Regular use of coding agent harnesses like Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, or Pi
• BS/BA degree in related field
• Based in London or surrounding areas and able to work on-site 1-2 days a week in the London office

Nice to have

• Direct experience building interactive realtime multimodal agents acting over long sessions and context windows
• Direct experience applying multimodal (audio, image) AI in content production or generation workflows
• Experience with dynamic video content generation fusing motion graphics and audio

About the company

G2 is the world's largest and most trusted software marketplace. It has joined forces with Capterra, SoftwareAdvice, and GetApp to create a large source of online data and software insights.