Member of Technical Staff - AI Engineer

Dex; Greater London; Hybride; GBP 90 000 - 150 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Dex is seeking a Member of Technical Staff to own ambiguous research-engineering problems across data curation, model fine-tuning, and agent execution harnesses. This role blends research with production, applying SFT and RL to build hardened systems that scale.

Based in or willing to work hybrid from London or Paris, you will collaborate with software and curriculum engineering teams, translate open-ended AI questions into technical plans, and drive multi-month technical initiatives.

Qualifications

• Direct, hands-on experience fine-tuning or post-training models using SFT or RL.
• Deep technical grounding in AI/ML fundamentals around model optimization, RLHF, and evaluation design.
• Strong Python foundations and software engineering discipline.
• Ability to break down open-ended research-engineering questions and drive complex technical initiatives.
• Based in or willing to work hybrid from London or Paris.

Responsabilités

• Design, curate, and scale training-data and synthetic-data pipelines purpose-built for agent training across complex digital workflows.
• Fine-tune and post-train models using supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning methods, establishing rigorous feedback loops and evaluation suites.
• Develop and harden agent harnesses and sandboxed execution environments that reliably connect models to real, interactive software tasks.
• Translate open-ended, ambiguous AI questions into technical plans and production-ready systems alongside software and curriculum engineering teams.
• Drive technical decisions and coordinate complex engineering efforts across the team without relying on line-management hierarchy.

Connaissances

Fine-tune models (SFT/RL)

Python

Production-grade code

Ambiguity-driven research engineering

Collaboration across teams

Description du poste

This role is with one of Dex's trusted partner companies. We work closely with their teams to truly understand their culture, goals, and what they're looking for, so we can match you with the right opportunity and give you context about the role before you commit to a process.

Dex is an AI recruiter agent that helps you run your job search. Tell Dex your stack, seniority, and what you want to build. We will manage your applications and surface other opportunities that are a fit.

The role

Frontier labs do not lack compute; they lack high-signal data and rich, resettable digital environments where agents can learn complex tasks through trial and error. Backed by prominent seed investors and led by a repeat founder with a prior exit, this European AI lab scaled to more than 50 staff across London and Paris in roughly a year, building the foundational environment and data layer currently relied on by leading frontier AI labs.

As a Member of Technical Staff, you will take ownership of ambiguous research-engineering problems across data curation, model fine-tuning, and agent execution harnesses. This is not an application-layer role stitching third-party APIs together, nor is it an academic seat divorced from production; you will apply methods like SFT and RL, measure what holds up under rigorous evaluation, and turn viable prototypes into observable, hardened systems.

The work

• Design, curate, and scale training-data and synthetic-data pipelines purpose-built for agent training across complex digital workflows.
• Fine-tune and post-train models using supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning methods, establishing rigorous feedback loops and evaluation suites.
• Develop and harden agent harnesses and sandboxed execution environments that reliably connect models to real, interactive software tasks.
• Translate open-ended, ambiguous AI questions into technical plans and production-ready systems alongside software and curriculum engineering teams.
• Drive technical decisions and coordinate complex engineering efforts across the team without relying on line-management hierarchy.

What You Bring

• Direct, hands-on experience fine-tuning or post-training models using methods like SFT or RL, with the ability to detail precisely what was trained, how it was evaluated, and what changed.
• Deep technical grounding in AI and ML fundamentals beyond application-layer orchestration, specifically around model optimisation, RLHF, and rigorous evaluation design.
• Strong Python foundations and software engineering discipline, writing clean, testable, production-grade code rather than isolated research prototypes.
• Proven ability to break down ambiguous research-engineering questions from first principles and drive complex technical initiatives over multi-month horizons.
• Based in or willing to work hybrid from London or Paris.

Why apply through Dex

Agent infrastructure is one of the most crowded and hype-driven spaces in tech, making it difficult to distinguish teams building real post-training environments from companies wrapping frontier APIs. Applying through Dex bypasses cold inbound queues and places your actual research-engineering track record directly in front of their technical leads. You get an unvarnished briefing on their internal stack and environment architecture before you ever step into an interview.

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