Machine Learning Researcher

MicroTech Consulting
London, United Kingdom
2 weeks ago
£139,000 – £140,000 pa
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Salary

£139,000 – £140,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
On-site
Seniority
Senior
Education
Phd
Posted
30 Apr 2026 (2 weeks ago)

As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will take the lead on optimising the functionality, performance, and algorithmic engineering powering our machine learning models. This is a critical role for a hands-on expert who can deliver state of the art models, set the standard for performance, and ensure our models are accurate, robust, efficient and scalable.

What you’ll do:

  • Lead the development and refinement of novel machine learning architectures and algorithms harnessing our nonlinear dynamics. Building deeper network architectures that maximise efficiency and performance.

  • Design, build and test models both on device and using in-house simulation framework.

  • Collaborate closely with the wider photonics and hardware team to design and evaluate general metrics to assess the computational properties of the hardware and optimise for computational performance.

  • Research state-of-the-art machine learning & machine vision techniques and adapt them to be compatible with our hardware.

  • Experience:
  • Proven track record of developing novel algorithms (papers in NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, or Nature/Science journals)
  • Hardware Aware ML / Neuromorphic Computing:
    • FPGAs, ASICs, analog computing chips, spiking neural network (hardware), edge AI
  • Unconventional training algorithms
    • Reservoir computing, self-constrastive learning, forward-forward learning, evolutionary algorithms, equilibrium propagation
  • Physics informed neural networks, or applied ML to physics problems
  • Deep understanding of mathematics, algebra / topology - key words are latent space, intrinsic dimensionality
  • Experience working with hardware as well is a bonus

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