Senior Research Engineer

Senior Research Engineer - NLP & LLM

£60k-£100k + Shares

Cambridge

• Opportunity to work for a company at the cutting edge of AI
• Join an R&D team that is building its NLP & LLM product suite in-house
• Fast-paced, product-centric environment
• Incredible L&D opportunities

The company:

I am currently looking for a Senior R&D/ML Engineer to join a well-established R&D team based in Cambridge.

The most exciting thing about this company is that everything is built on a foundation of AI, and they have the capability to build almost everything in-house, including LLMs, transformers and NLP tech. This is all handled by the R&D team which is where you’d be joining.

The company is 150 strong, the tech team is made up of 60 highly talented individuals the R&D team is currently a team of 8.

The role:

This is an ML Engineering position and not just pure Research. You need to be able to look at data, move it through the system, build and improve models, deal with the pragmatic realities of data sets and get code ready to ship. You will need to understand the practical details of how models work in production, and how to debug and fix model score issues, but it is worth noting that deploying and maintenance are often handled by a separate team.

You:

Experience fine-tuning and training Large Language Models (LLM) would be a nice bonus, but the main focus is a strong background in Natural Language Processing (NLP), ideally Named Entity Recognition (NER).

You don't HAVE to have a PhD but there is a large research element to the role so you'll need to be able to demonstrate your knowledge and experience in this area.

Energy and attitude are what counts most here, they look for people who aren’t afraid to get stuck in and they’re big on rapid delivery, so you need to be able to operate at pace whilst remaining pragmatic.

Package Headlines:

• The salary on offer is £60k-£100k
• Share options
• This is a very visual role within the company and collaboration is key so 2-3 days in Cambridge is required.
• Private healthcare

I asked the CTO why he joined, and here’s his response. “Recent AI developments are the ‘iPhone moment’ – the once-in-a-generation shift of perspectives, and we have the right product at the right time to disrupt a huge industry that’s waking up to the power of AI. We’ve already seen massive acceleration, and it’s now about building and shaping the AI to underpin our growth”.

If you're a whiz in the NLP space, then please do apply and we can hopefully discuss further. Please note that we expect to receive a high volume of applications so it's not always possible to respond to each one.

Contact Jamie Forgan