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Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Latinx in AI (LXAI)
City of London
3 days ago
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Overview

Senior Machine Learning Engineer role at UnderwriteMe Technology Solutions Limited (Pacific Life Re subsidiary). Full-time, on-site in London, United Kingdom. This role is part of the AI-Engine team and focuses on building innovative product solutions to disrupt the insurance market.

Responsibilities
  • Work within a dynamic cross-functional team (OKRs) with developers, QAs, data scientists, and data analysts to achieve tangible outcomes.
  • Contribute to the formulation of OKRs and drive project execution with a deep understanding of AI and industry trends.
  • Craft and refine machine learning models and algorithms for complex product challenges.
  • Develop data analysis and data mining strategies to extract insights from diverse data sources.
  • Apply NLP techniques to extract information from textual data.
  • Formulate predictive models to anticipate trends and support decision-making.
  • Build automated ML workflows and integrate CI/CD for deployment and iterative improvement.
  • Architect, deploy, and manage APIs for model delivery; leverage external APIs to enhance functionality.
  • Establish monitoring and logging to evaluate performance, detect anomalies, and ensure reliability and accessibility of models.
  • Collaborate with DevOps and IT to transition ML models into production, ensuring scalability and security.
Qualifications
  • Applied AI and NLP experience with production-ready solutions addressing real-world NLP problems.
  • Hands-on experience fine-tuning pre-trained models (e.g., BERT, GPT) for domain-specific NLP tasks.
  • Experience integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into applications with structured responses via APIs or purpose-built LLMs.
  • Knowledge of prompt engineering, few-shot learning techniques, and optimizing input/output formats.
  • Advanced Python development: OOP, data-validation (e.g., Pydantic), and proficiency with PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, scikit-learn.
  • Data manipulation with Pandas, NumPy; familiarity with parallelization and asynchronous programming.
  • Test-Driven Development (TDD) and experience with Pytest.
  • Cloud, CI/CD and MLOps: Docker, Kubernetes, serverless (e.g., AWS Lambda); MLFlow, Kubeflow, or SageMaker; strong AWS knowledge.
  • Bonus: experience with named entity recognition, recommendation systems, GitLab CI/CD or GitHub Actions, Java/Spring Boot, and insurance/healthcare data experience.
About UnderwriteMe

UnderwriteMe is an Insurtech software business and subsidiary of Pacific Life Re. The company aims to help everyone access protection insurance by using data and disruptive technology to streamline underwriting processes.

Benefits and Culture

We value a healthy work-life balance, offer a range of employee benefits, and support team-building, wellbeing initiatives, volunteering, and charitable matching.

Company Values

Please contact us to view our company values.

Note: This refined description retains the core responsibilities and qualifications and removes extraneous boilerplate and non-essential content.


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