Senior AI Engineer

Burns Sheehan; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data-driven company in the UK is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to lead the development of large-scale machine learning systems. This role involves collaboration across teams and applying cutting-edge techniques in machine learning. Ideal candidates should possess strong programming skills in Python and SQL, along with experience in natural language processing and ML frameworks. The role offers a competitive salary between £90,000-£130,000 and benefits such as equity options and generous holiday allowances.

Benefits

Equity options

25 days holiday + bank

Pension matched to 7%

Work abroad for up to 3 months

Qualifications

• Experience in productionising and deploying AI systems.
• Experience in the full model lifecycle including experimentation and deployment.
• Familiarity with RAG systems and recommendation systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead model development lifecycle and ensure best practices.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to address business problems.
• Translate complex problems into well-defined scoped bets.

Skills

Strong Python programming

SQL skills

Experience with NLP

Hands-on ML framework experience

Knowledge of AWS ML infrastructure

Tools

PyTorch

scikit-learn

Job description

Overview

Senior AI Engineer

• Salary: £90,000-£130,000
• UK remote with London office with expectation to be seen in person at least once a month
• Equity options
• 25 days holiday + bank
• Pension matched to 7%
• Work abroad for up to 3 months

Are you looking to be part of a world-class data lead organisation who are continuously moving forward with the latest AI trends?

This company is a true innovator in building data driven products using machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, speech and audio, and knowledge/data mining. This person will be a senior engineer who will help both define and build the companies. In the role you will be building large scale machine learning systems, apply the latest techniques whilst working with an elite team of researchers and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Driving end to model development lifecycle, leading the team in best practices, ensuring reproducible research and well managed model delivery/deployment
• Collaborate cross functionally to share diverse ideas, understand business problems, and elevate/mentor your teammates
• Translate complex problems into well-defined scoped bets in an internal start-up style environment, dynamic and fast-paced
• Learn and apply ground-breaking research and approaches in advanced topics, iterating improvements with fail fast mentality
• Be a proactive sharer of compelling ideas/work to the rest of the team and organisation

What you need

• Not necessarily the title, we know in the world of AI Engineering you may come from a background of data science, engineering, machine learning although what is key is that you will be deeply involved with productionising and deploying
• Strong Python, SQL and programming skills
• Hands on experience working within areas such as NLP, LLM, recommendation systems Information Retrieval stacks, GenAI (specifically RAG systems)
• Familiar with architecture and implementation of 1+ ML frameworks (PyTorch, scikit-learn)
• Experience working in the full model lifecycle (including experimentation, training, testing, monitoring, and deployment)
• Good knowledge of AWS's machine learning infrastructure

Application details

If interested please send any questions to [e-mail]

Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.