Senior ML Engineer - Financial AI & Model Reliability

S27a; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Clove is creating the next generation of financial advice by combining trusted advisers with AI. As one of our first ML hires, you will own the work end to end, spanning evaluation, data, training, and deployment into a regulated product.

You will build rigorous benchmarks, fine-tune open models for financial guidance, and investigate why models fail on numbers and layered rules to improve reliability and auditability.

Qualifications

• Strong ML fundamentals and practical understanding of training/post-training processes.
• Ability to design tests and benchmarks that resist gaming and manipulation.
• Experience taking research ideas through to trained models and deployed artefacts.

Responsibilities

• Define benchmarks for personal-finance guidance and numerical accuracy.
• Build and fine-tune models for financial advice and long-document robustness.
• Investigate model failures and layered rules to improve reliability and auditability.
• Deliver model features into the adviser platform and consumer app with correctness at the core.

Skills

Strong ML fundamentals

Rigorous evaluation

Ownership

Product-minded

High standards

Job description

Clove is creating the next generation of financial advice by combining trusted advisers with AI. As one of our first ML hires, you will own the work end to end, spanning evaluation, data, training, and deployment into a regulated product.

You will build rigorous benchmarks, fine-tune open models for financial guidance, and investigate why models fail on numbers and layered rules to improve reliability and auditability.