Senior ML Engineering Lead - Financial Crime

Requirements:

• You've explicitly led or built an ML Engineering or model lifecycle automation team at a high-growth company
• System-level and mathematical depth
• Experience in high-throughput environments with tight latency constraints
• Track record of hiring and developing senior engineers
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and make architecture-level decisions
• Strong technical skills in deep learning, ML systems, and production infrastructure

Nice to Have:

• Experience at a tier-1 fintech or payments company
• Experience with graph-based methods in production
• Foundation model fine-tuning or LLM evaluation experience
• Experience establishing ML engineering practices in organizations transitioning from classical ML to deep learning

What You'll Be Doing:

• Architecting the Model Factory
• Establishing the Experimentation Engine
• Building the Model Operations infrastructure
• Recruiting, leading, and mentoring a team of ML engineers
• Defining and navigating cross-platform partnerships

Perks and Benefits:

• Starting salary: £135,000 - £175,000 + RSUs