Machine Learning Engineer

Cerebras; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology company is seeking to enhance its team with a focus on deploying and scaling ML models, particularly large language models. This role involves collaborating with data scientists and engineers to maintain cutting-edge ML infrastructure. You will contribute to meaningful connections in the labour market while enjoying a hybrid work model and various employee perks, including 29 days holiday and private healthcare.

Benefits

29 days holiday allowance + bank holidays

Private medical and dental healthcare

Matching pension contribution

24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

Life Assurance Cover

Cycle to work scheme

Hybrid working model

Volunteering days

Bring your dog to the office

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in Python.
• Experience with machine learning tools.
• Familiar with deploying ML models in the cloud.
• Understanding of DevOps processes.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with data scientists and engineers in an Agile environment.
• Deploy and scale ML models, especially large language models.
• Build and maintain scalable pipelines for ML applications.
• Improve recommender systems.

Skills

Python

Machine learning

Huggingface

Pytorch

AWS

SageMaker

CI/CD

Docker

Terraform

Kafka

Job description

Company Description

At The Stepstone Group, we have a simple yet very important mission: The right job for everyone. Using our data, platform, and technology, we create opportunities for jobseekers and companies around the world to find a perfect match in fair and equitable way. With over 20 brands across 30+ countries, we strive for fair and unbiased hiring.

Join our team of 4,000+ employees and be part of reshaping the labour market and becoming the world’s leading job platform.

Job Description

Join our team and you’ll be responsible for our recommender systems and search algorithms, building the core infrastructure that powers millions of meaningful connections.

Working in the Search & Match domain, you will be focusing on deploying and scaling machine learning models, particularly large language models (LLMs). You will collaborate with data scientists to make sure our models are efficient and can be properly optimized for cost and performance. You will work with software engineers to set up modern machine learning pipelines ensuring high operational standards.

If you’d like to make a difference by maintaining cutting-edge, scalable machine learning infrastructure that brings the right people to the right jobs, then we’d love to hear from you!

You will play a vital role as we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everybody.

Your responsibilities:

• Collaborate with data scientists, ML Engineers, and backend engineers within an Agile environment
• Deploy and scale ML models, particularly large language models (LLMs)
• Build and maintain scalable pipelines and services to support real-time ML applications
• Maintain and improve recommender systems
• Build and work with modern API and microservices architectures

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in Python
• Experience with machine learning, familiar with Huggingface, Pytorch, and similar ML tools and packages
• Familiarity with deploying and scaling ML models in the cloud, particularly with AWS and SageMaker
• Understanding of DevOps processes and tools: CI/CD, Docker, Terraform, and monitoring/observability
• Bonus: experience with vector databases, semantic search, or event-driven systems like Kafka

Additional Information

We’re a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when you’re with us. Because your job shouldn’t take over your life, it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• 29 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
• Private medical and dental healthcare
• Matching pension contribution of 4 or 5% (after 3 years of service up to 10%)
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Life Assurance Cover
• Cycle to work scheme
• Hybrid working model (3 days working from the office)
• Volunteering days
• and you can bring your dog to the office on Mondays and Fridays!

Our commitment

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.

As a global business we further our DEI and sustainability progress by working with national and international bodies and are proud to have been recognised for our work - both locally and internationally, including:

• Armed Forces Covenant: Bronze Award, Employer Recognition Scheme
• EcoVadis: Bronze Award
• Fertility Friendly Employer, accredited by Fertility Matters at Work
• RIDI (Recruitment Industry Disability) Awards: Inclusive Technology Award 2024
• Stonewall: Gold Award
• Stonewall: Top 100 Workplace Equality Index (85)