Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Lead Machine Learning Engineer focuses on inspect, maintain, repair, install, design, or improve technical systems according to the role.

What the role involves

• Inspect, maintain, repair, install, design, or improve technical systems according to the role.
• Diagnose issues, complete checks, and keep records or handovers accurate.

Skills and requirements

• Proven experience leading ML engineering or applied research teams.
• Strong background building and scaling deep learning systems in production.
• Deep understanding of foundation model architectures and modern generative AI techniques.
• Experience with probabilistic ML approaches such as Bayesian inference, latent variable models, or uncertainty-aware systems.

Confirmed role details

• Helping shape hiring strategy and technical roadmap as the company scales.

Candidate fit

• technical judgement, safe working habits, careful diagnostics, and practical problem-solving

Additional role context

• We’re looking for a Machine Learning Team Lead to lead a high-performing team working on foundation models and probabilistic ML systems for drug discovery.
• Leading a team of ML engineers and applied researchers building large-scale foundation models for biological data.
• Defining technical strategy across probabilistic modelling, representation learning, and generative AI systems.

Known job details

• Pay: £145,000