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Principal Machine Learning Engineer - Chat United Kingdom

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Principal Machine Learning Engineer - Chat

United Kingdom
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About Cleo
Most people come to Cleo to do work that matters. Every day, we empower people to build a life beyond their next paycheck, building a beloved AI that enables you to forge your own path toward financial well-being.
Machine Learning Engineers at Cleo work on building novel solutions to real-world problems. This really does vary but could be: creating chatbots to coach our users around their financial health, creating classifiers to better understand transaction data or even optimising transactions within our payments platform.
Ultimately, we’re looking for a brilliant Principal Machine Learning Engineer to join us on our mission to fight for the world's financial health. You’ll be leading technical work within a team of adaptable, creative and product-focused engineers, who train & integrate cutting edge machine learning across a variety of products and deploy them into production for millions of users.
What you’ll be doing
Training and fine-tuning models to solve customer problems across our chatbot and the bank transaction data behind it.
Deploying these models into our production environments using our in-house ML platform.
Working cross-functionally with backend engineers, data analysts, UX writers, product managers, annotation teams, and others to ship features that improve our users’ financial health.
Taking the initiative to propose & lead technical work towards problems that were previously unknown or poorly understood.
Keeping Cleo at the forefront of NLP by driving the adoption of appropriate state-of-the-art techniques.
Mentoring & advising colleagues on their choices of models, architecture, and evaluation, promoting best practices for how we use LLMs.
What you’ll need
Experience in industry machine learning roles as a technical leader or principal/staff engineer
Excellent knowledge of both Data Science (python, SQL) and production tools
A deep understanding of probability and statistics fundamentals
Top tier communication skills, to be able to partner with Product and Commercial Leaders
Industry-leading contributions to your field, communicated through conferences, blogs, talks, or open-source projects
Nice to have
Strong experience with additional programming languages, such as Java, Scala, C++
What do you get for all your hard work?
A competitive compensation package (base + equity) with bi-annual reviews . This position is a DS5 level and we can pay £111,184 - £145,088 p.a depending on experience.
Work at one of the fastest-growing tech startups, backed by top VC firms, Balderton & EQT Ventures
A clear progression plan.
Flexibility : We work with everyone to make sure they have the balance they need to do their best work
Work where you work best.

We’re a globally distributed team.
Other benefits;
25 days annual leave a year + public holidays (+ an additional day for every year you spend at Cleo)
401k matching in the US and 6% employer-matched pension in the UK
Private Medical Insurance
1 month paid sabbatical after 4 years at Cleo!
Online courses & internal training to level up your skills
Regular socials and activities, online and in-person
Online mental health support via Spill

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