Lead ML Engineering Manager for Financial Assistant AI

Cleo; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Sabbatical after four years

Pension contributions

Learning platform

Job summary

Cleo is building the world's first AI financial assistant and seeks an ML Engineering Manager to lead the ML workstream behind our Financial Assistant, shaping how Cleo uses LLMs to enable more engaging, accurate conversations about money.

You will manage ML engineers across squads, own the headcount plan, and drive hiring and team development as Cleo grows. This is a leadership role in a fast-moving, unicorn environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building and deploying machine learning models to production.
• Experience managing and developing high-performing teams of data scientists and ML engineers.
• Habit of keeping abreast of the latest research and experimenting productively with new technologies, including LLMs and LLM agent design.
• Experience owning an ML roadmap, driving new ideas through to business impact.
• Ability to write production-quality Python code, with a willingness to stay somewhat hands-on.
• Nice to have: domain knowledge of NLP, including evaluating LLM systems and fine-tuning LLMs or other transformer models.
• Nice to have: a strong ability to communicate findings to non-technical stakeholders concisely and engagingly.
• Nice to have: experience with containers and container orchestration - Kubernetes, Docker, and/or Mesos.
• Nice to have: experience using vector databases such as OpenSearch

Responsibilities

• Understand the core problems faced by the Financial Assistant team and coordinate the ML function's contribution to solving them
• Find opportunities for model and product improvements in Cleo's extensive customer behaviour datasets
• Manage the ML engineers in your squads - coaching and developing them to deliver on the roadmap
• Build out the headcount plan and own hiring and team development within your area to support growth

Skills

ML deployment

Team leadership

LLM design

ML roadmap

Python coding

NLP

Stakeholder communication

Container orchestration

OpenSearch

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenSearch

Job description

Cleo is building the world's first AI financial assistant and seeks an ML Engineering Manager to lead the ML workstream behind our Financial Assistant, shaping how Cleo uses LLMs to enable more engaging, accurate conversations about money.

You will manage ML engineers across squads, own the headcount plan, and drive hiring and team development as Cleo grows. This is a leadership role in a fast-moving, unicorn environment.