Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Foundation Health
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
23 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary to permanent
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Data Systems
Distributed Systems
Github
Machine Learning
Ansible
Software Engineering
Data Streaming
Spark
Backend
Apache Flink
Kafka
Terraform

Job description

We're hiring a Machine Learning Engineering Lead to own and scale AI/ML at Foundation Health.

You'll be hands-on from day one, setting technical direction, building production ML systems, and growing the ML team from the ground up. You'll work closely with our software engineers and product teams to ship ML features that solve real healthcare problems.

This isn't research-only or "AI for AI's sake" - it's production ML in a regulated, high-impact environment. What You'll Do

  • Design, build, and deploy production ML systems across our platform
  • Lead the technical vision for AI/ML and establish best practices
  • Build and mentor a high-performing ML team
  • Work closely with backend and platform engineers on system design
  • Develop ML-powered automation features for healthcare workflows
  • Use tools like OpenAI, Langfuse, and GCP Vertex AI in real-world applications
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Requirements

  • Strong software engineering background with high coding standards
  • Experience building and operating ML systems in production
  • Solid understanding of system design, distributed systems, and architecture tradeoffs
  • Comfortable writing clean, scalable, well-tested code
  • Proven ability to lead technically while remaining hands-on
  • Clear communicator who enjoys mentoring and collaboration
  • Customer-focused mindset with empathy for end users
  • Likely PhD-level background (or equivalent experience) in ML, AI, or a related field

Nice to Have

  • Experience with cloud ML platforms (GCP Vertex AI, AWS SageMaker)
  • Knowledge of streaming data systems (Flink, Beam, Spark, Kafka)
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions)
  • Strong interest in security, privacy, and regulated environments
  • Experience with complex systems (e.g. payments, healthcare, finance)

About the company

About Foundation Health Foundation Health is transforming healthcare through an AI-powered digital pharmacy platform that seamlessly connects operational infrastructure with high quality patient experiences. Our mission is to transform patient centric care by connecting fragmented infrastructure, optimizing care coordination, and removing friction from the patient journey. This ambitious vision is only achievable with the dedication of the right team propelling us forward. We firmly believe that a supportive and inspiring work environment fuels creativity, transforming it into groundbreaking innovation. It is this very innovation that not only benefits our organization but also positively impacts our people, partners, and most importantly, our patients., About Charlotte Tilbury Beauty Founded by British makeup artist and beauty entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury MBE in 2013, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has revolutionised the face of the global beauty industry by de-coding makeup applications for everyone, everywhere, with an..., We believe in better. And we make it happen. Better content. Better products. And better careers. Working in Tech, Product or Data at Sky is about building the next and the new. From broadband to broadcast, streaming to mobile, SkyQ to Sky Glass, we never stand still. We..., A global investment firm is hiring a Lead Machine Learning Engineer. Hybrid position. Paying up to £1600 per day. Outside IR35 Experience and skills required for the Senior Machine Learning Engineer (AI), Quantization, PEFT, DeepSpeed, ONNX, TensorRT, PyTorch, multi-LoRa,... Applied AI ML Lead Engineer - Customer Onboarding and Documentation JPMorgan Chase Join us at the forefront of Applied AI innovation, where you'll help shape the next generation of autonomous agents for the world's largest bank. As a builder, pioneer, and mentor, you'll bridge the gap between cutting-edge theory and enterprise-grade systems. Collaborate...

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