Senior ML Engineer

Digital Waffle
London, United Kingdom
1 day ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Compensation
£119,322
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Training Data Big Data Distributed Computing Environment Performance Tuning Raw Data Scientific Computating QLoRA Pytorch DeepSpeed Large Language Models Apache Spark Deep Learning
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Backend Transformer Architectures Free and Open-Source Software TensorRT Mixed Precision Model Inference Megatron Data Pipelines

Job description

You’ll bridge research and production, taking ideas and turning them into systems that run at scale, stay reliable, and get better over time. Full-stack ML ownership: from raw data to deployed model.

Day to day that looks like:

  • Building end-to-end pipelines across data, training, evaluation, and inference
  • Adapting and fine-tuning models with modern techniques: LoRA, QLoRA, SFT, DPO, distillation
  • Architecting inference systems that hold up under real latency and cost constraints
  • Creating data pipelines that produce high-quality synthetic and real-world training data
  • Running evaluation that goes beyond benchmarks: robustness, safety, bias, production behaviour
  • Owning deployment: GPU optimisation, quantisation, memory efficiency, scaling
  • Working directly with application engineers so ML integrates cleanly into backend, mobile, and desktop

Requirements

  • Deep understanding of deep learning and transformer architectures
  • Proven experience training, fine-tuning, or shipping large-scale models in production
  • Strong with at least one major ML framework (PyTorch, JAX) and quick to pick up others
  • Familiar with distributed training and inference tooling: DeepSpeed, FSDP, Megatron, ZeRO, Ray
  • Engineering discipline: code that’s readable, robust, and maintainable
  • Experience optimising for GPU constraints: quantisation, mixed precision, memory
  • Comfortable taking ownership of ambiguous problems from zero to one
  • Ships, iterates, learns from production

Nice to have

  • LLM inference frameworks: vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, FasterTransformer
  • RLHF: PPO, DPO, ORPO
  • Open-source contributions to ML or systems libraries
  • Scientific computing, compiler, or GPU kernel experience
  • Multimodal or diffusion model background
  • Large-scale data processing: Arrow, Spark, Ray

About the company

At a big company, ML work gets absorbed into a machine. Here, your systems are the product. You’ll work closely with research and engineering leadership, have real influence over how the architecture evolves, and see the direct impact of your work on users. If you want to build ML infrastructure that actually matters, this is it.

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