ML Engineering Lead — Production AI for Healthcare

Foundation Health; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare technology company in Greater London is seeking a Machine Learning Engineering Lead to drive AI initiatives and build production ML systems. As the first ML hire, you will architect solutions while mentoring a team and collaborating across departments. The ideal candidate has a strong software engineering background, extensive ML experience, and a PhD or equivalent in a relevant field. This role offers the chance to make a meaningful impact on healthcare operations with significant ownership and influence.

Benefits

Greenfield opportunity

Strong existing engineering culture

Modern ML stack

Meaningful impact on healthcare

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with high coding standards.
• Experience building and operating ML systems in production.
• Solid understanding of system design, distributed systems, and architecture tradeoffs.
• Comfortable writing clean, scalable, well-tested code.
• Proven ability to lead technically while remaining hands-on.
• Clear communicator who enjoys mentoring and collaboration.
• Customer-focused mindset with empathy for end users.
• PhD-level background (or equivalent experience) in ML, AI, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy production ML systems across our platform.
• Lead the technical vision for AI/ML and establish best practices.
• Build and mentor a high-performing ML team.
• Work closely with backend and platform engineers on system design.
• Develop ML-powered automation features for healthcare workflows.
• Ensure ML systems are reliable, testable, observable, and secure.

Skills

Software engineering background

Building and operating ML systems

System design knowledge

Writing clean, testable code

Hands-on leadership

Mentoring and collaboration

Customer-focused mindset

PhD-level background in ML/AI

Education

PhD in ML, AI, or related field

Tools

GCP Vertex AI

AWS SageMaker

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Job description

A healthcare technology company in Greater London is seeking a Machine Learning Engineering Lead to drive AI initiatives and build production ML systems. As the first ML hire, you will architect solutions while mentoring a team and collaborating across departments. The ideal candidate has a strong software engineering background, extensive ML experience, and a PhD or equivalent in a relevant field. This role offers the chance to make a meaningful impact on healthcare operations with significant ownership and influence.