Senior Research Engineer - Information Retrieval - Artificial Intelligence London, GBR

Bloomberg L.P.; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking Senior Research Engineers to join their AI Experiences team. This role offers the chance to work on cutting-edge projects involving Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Generative AI. You'll collaborate with talented colleagues to build and deploy innovative search systems powered by large language models, enhancing the way users interact with financial data. If you have a passion for AI and a strong academic background, this opportunity will allow you to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment that values diversity and innovation.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Health insurance

Professional development opportunities

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Practical experience with NLP or Information Retrieval problems.
• Ph.D. or MSc in relevant fields with industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on production-grade search systems powered by LLMs.
• Design, train, experiment, and evaluate models and algorithms.

Skills

Natural Language Processing

Information Retrieval

Machine Learning

Deep Learning

Software Engineering

Communication Skills

Education

Ph.D. in NLP, IR, ML or relevant field

MSc in CS, ML, Math, Statistics, Engineering

Tools

PyTorch

Job description

Bloomberg’s Engineering AI department has 350+ AI practitioners building highly sought after products and features that often require novel innovations. We are investing in AI to build better search, discovery, and workflow solutions using technologies such as transformers, gradient boosted decision trees, large language models, and dense vector databases. We are expanding our group and seeking highly skilled individuals who will be responsible for contributing to the team (or teams) of Machine Learning (ML) and Software Engineers that are bringing innovative solutions to AI-driven customer-facing products.

At Bloomberg, we believe in fostering a transparent and efficient financial marketplace. Our business is built on technology that makes news, research, financial data, and analytics on over 35 million financial instruments searchable, discoverable, and actionable across the global capital markets.

Bloomberg has been building Artificial Intelligence applications that offer solutions to these problems with high accuracy and low latency since 2009. We build AI systems to help process and organize the ever-increasing volume of structured and unstructured information needed to make informed decisions. Our use of AI uncovers signals, helps us produce analytics about financial instruments in all asset classes, and delivers clarity when our clients need it most.

We are looking for Senior Research Engineers with expertise and a passion for Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing and Generative AI to join our AI Experiences team. Our teams are working on exciting initiatives such as:

1. Building and deploying RAG systems, curating data for model training and evaluation, building evaluation systems that facilitate rapid iteration, and understanding how users interact with our systems to identify directions for improvements.
2. Designing tools that Search LLM agents can access to respond to clients query, contributing to shaping and implementing the LLM agentic ecosystem in Bloomberg and scaling generative AI applications to thousands of users.
3. Applying traditional machine learning, NLP and Generative AI to prototype and productionize client-facing search and streaming applications for discovering the most relevant and timely financial news.

You'll have the opportunity to:

1. Collaborate with colleagues on building and deploying production-grade search systems powered by LLMs using sound ML and software engineering practices.
2. Continuously identify opportunities to improve our search systems and rapidly explore and experiment ideas for improvement, and release ones that have promise.
3. Design, train, experiment, and evaluate models, algorithms and solutions.
4. Anticipate data needs for building and evaluating ML-driven systems. Take ownership of securing such data by coordinating with data owners and annotators. At the same time, identify opportunities for using LLMs in dealing with data scarcity issues.
5. Demonstrate technical leadership by owning cross-team projects.
6. Stay current with the latest research in IR, NLP, LLMs and incorporate new findings into our models and methodologies.
7. Represent Bloomberg at scientific and industry conference and in open-source communities.
8. Publish product and research findings in documentation, whitepapers or publications to leading academic venues.

You’ll need to have:

1. Practical experience with Natural Language Processing or Information Retrieval problems.
2. A Ph.D. in NLP, IR, ML, or a relevant field or an MSc in CS, ML, Math, Statistics, Engineering with prior industry experience. We are happy to consider candidates with a Ph.D and industry experience through internships.
3. Experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
4. Proficiency in software engineering.
5. An understanding of Computer Science and software engineering fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms and a data-oriented approach to problem-solving.
6. Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with engineering peers as well as non-engineering stakeholders.
7. A track record of authoring publications in top conferences and journals is a strong plus.

Bloomberg is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

Bloomberg is a disability inclusive employer. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to be made for the recruitment process. If you would prefer to discuss this confidentially, please email [e-mail].