Job responsibilities
- Build robust Data Science capabilities which can be scaled across multiple business use cases
- Collaborate with software engineering team to design and deploy Machine Learning services that can be integrated with strategic systems
- Research and analyse data sets using a variety of statistical and machine learning techniques
- Communicate AI capabilities and results to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Document approaches taken, techniques used and processes followed to comply with industry regulation
- Collaborate closely with cloud and SRE teams while taking a leading role in the design and delivery of the production architectures for our solutions.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Hands on experience in an ML engineering role
- PhD in a quantitative discipline, e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics
- Track record of developing, deploying business critical machine learning models
- Broad knowledge of MLOps tooling – for versioning, reproducibility, observability etc
- Experience monitoring, maintaining, enhancing existing models over an extended time period
- Specialism in NLP or Computer Vision
- Solid understanding of fundamentals of statistics, optimization and ML theory
- Extensive experience with pytorch, numpy, pandas
- Familiarity with popular deep learning architectures (transformers, CNN, autoencoders etc.)
- Excellent grasp of comp sci fundamentals and dev best practice
- Able to communicate technical information and ideas at all levels; convey information clearly and create trust with stakeholders.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience designing/ implementing pipelines using DAGs (e.g. Kubeflow, DVC, Ray)
- Experience of big data technologies (e.g. Spark, Hadoop)
- Hands-on experience in implementing distributed/multi-threaded/scalable applications (incl. frameworks such as Ray, Horovod, DeepSpeed, etc.)
- Knowledge of open source datasets and benchmarks in NLP / Computer Vision
- Have constructed batch and streaming microservices exposed as REST/gRPC endpoints
- Familiarity with GraphQL