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🚀 Founding Machine Learning Engineer - AI Start-Up (On-Site | Equity + Salary)


A rare opportunity to join one of London’s most exciting AI start-ups at the ground level!Backed by top-tier investors and led by a world-class founding team fromOxford, Cambridge, and Imperial, this company is pushing the boundaries of applied AI.


They’re now looking for aFounding Machine Learning Engineerto join the core technical team and lead the development of their ML systems from the ground up.


🤖 About the Company:

Founded by experienced operators with multiple AI start-up successes under their belts, this venture is already attracting serious attention. With strong financial backing and a bold technical vision, they’re building intelligent systems that solve high-impact real-world problems.

This is not just another AI start-up - it’s a company where cutting-edge research meets practical, scalable product development.


đź§  The Role:

As a founding ML engineer, you’ll be deeply involved in shaping the entire ML pipeline - from research and prototyping to model deployment and optimisation. You’ll work closely with product and engineering to integrate intelligent features into a user-facing product from day one.

You’ll need to be both a scientist and an engineer: excited by innovation, and pragmatic about delivering impact!


🛠️ Key Technologies:

  • Pythonand modern ML libraries (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX)
  • AWSand cloud infrastructure for scalable training and inference
  • ML ops tooling, model monitoring, and data pipelines
  • Bonus: experience withLLMs &generative AIis a strong plus


🎯 What They’re Looking For:

  • Top-tier academic backgroundin Computer Science, Engineering, Maths or a related field – Oxbridge, Imperial, or equivalent
  • 4+ years of hands-on ML experience, ideally in fast-moving start-up environments
  • A strong track record of building and deploying ML models into production
  • Solid understanding of ML system design, experimentation, and model evaluation
  • Experience working with ambiguous product requirements and iterating fast
  • Passion for pushing boundaries in AI - and for building real products, not just prototypes
  • Happy working5 days/week on-sitein a Central London office, shoulder to shoulder with the founding team


💸 What’s on Offer:

  • Exceptional salary
  • Meaningful equity- founding engineer-level stake
  • Ownership of the ML roadmap and long-term technical vision
  • The chance to help build a product and company from day one
  • A deeply collaborative, high-performance environment with elite peers


If you're an experienced ML engineer looking for your next big challenge, and want to build something important with world-class people - this could be the opportunity of a lifetime!


Sound like you? Let’s talk.

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