Job Description
About the Opportunity
We’re a UK-based deep tech start-up seeking a Lead Generative AI Engineer to join our enthusiastic and rapidly growing team. Ideally, you’ll have 7+ years industry experience working with Generative AI on a wide range of challenges in a fast-moving environment. The position will involve, technically leading teams and applying your skills to our two exciting, commercially focussed, core AI developments.
The role will involve developing, combining and scaling natural language model systems, data enhancement, collaboration with the wider AI team, and keeping ahead of the latest trends in Generative AI and ML. The ideal candidate will have a 7+ years’ experience with Generative AI e.g., LLMs, utilising them as part of a natural language model system (ideally both in and before production). Alongside this the candidate will have good understanding of current literature around LLMs.
The Rewards
* Initial salary: £neg., depending on experience & personal attributes
* Opportunity for rapid career progression
* An opportunity to shape the direction of fast-moving start-up
* Generous share option scheme
* Highly flexible work hours
* Hybrid working option
Key Responsibilities
* Technically lead teams in a challenging fast paced environment
* Develop novel, accurate AI algorithms for Oxford Dynamic’s core AI products
* Work with the team to deploy novel AI products into offline environments
Minimum Qualifications & Experience
* Strong experience deploying LLM’s for searching pipelines
* Experience leading teams
* Up to date with current LLM and NLP research
* Holding security clearance (min SC) or no known impediments to be security cleared to SC
* Experience designing, developing and deploying production machine learning pipelines
* Strong background in NLP techniques
* BS, MS or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science or related quantitative field
* Strong presentation skills
* Python for machine learning development
* Full-stack development, enhancement, and maintenance
* GIT workflow & control
* Docker for system deployment
* AWS/Cloud experience
Preferred Qualifications & Experience
* A portfolio of previous work (industry, Bachelors, semester, Masters, doctoral thesis, ...) in AI/robotics (Github repository) or published papers in relevant AI/robotics journals/conferences
* Experience with Git-workflow within a production team
* Experience with Agile product development
* Experience of working in a start-up
* Best practices in data engineering
* Familiarity with MLOps
* Experience with building Restful services
* Experience presenting in front of project stakeholders
* Keen business development interest
Start date: Immediate
Contract Type: Permanent
Oxford Dynamics is committed to creating an inclusive team experience for all. Regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, or if you're parenting the next generation of innovators, we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.
If you're interested in this role, please email your CV and we’ll be in touch.
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