Seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to bridge research and production for a London-based AI startup. This role involves taking ML research from prototype to deployment, optimizing LLMs, and building scalable inference systems. Requires 2+ years of shipping ML systems, strong deep learning/LLM experience, and Python engineering skills.
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Job Description
Machine Learning Engineer | Up to £180k + Equity | London, 5 Days Onsite
We're working with a well-funded London AI startup building complex production ML systems for major global organisations.
The business is tackling a technically difficult problem that sits across large-scale modelling, LLMs and real-world decision support.
They've already secured strong commercial traction, are backed by leading investors, and are now expanding the engineering team around the core ML platform.
This role is focused on taking ambitious research ideas and turning them into reliable production systems.
The Role
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You'll sit between research and engineering, owning the path from ML prototype through to deployment, optimisation and scale.
Responsibilities
- Take new ML research from prototype through to production
- Fine-tune, post-train and distil language models
- Build and optimise inference systems at scale
- Design data pipelines for large, messy real-world datasets
- Improve model performance, latency and cost
- Own ML systems end-to-end from experimentation through deployment
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Requirements
- 2+ years shipping ML systems in a startup or high-ownership environment
- Strong experience with deep learning and language models
- Hands-on experience with fine-tuning, RL, distillation or model post-training
- Strong Python engineering skills
- Experience deploying models used by real customers, within a startup or fast growing scale-up environment.
- Strong academic pedigree with a bachelors degree from a top university.
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Tech
Python, LLMs, fine-tuning, RL, model distillation, distributed training, inference optimisation, data pipelines.
Location
London, 5 days per week onsite.
Package
Up to £180,000 depending on experience plus equity.
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