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Lead Machine Learning Research Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom💼 Full-time💰 $95,000–$95,000🗓 2026-07-23 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead ML Research Engineer bridging deep model research and production ecosystem, translating research findings into engineering work and production observations into experimental probes.

Role type

Senior IC machine learning research engineer

Builds

Federated and non-retentive AI infrastructure with novel model topology

Domain

AI infrastructure, federated learning, edge ML

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

End-to-end ML system ownership, federated or edge ML systems, evaluation and orchestration, simulation-based testing, compiler-style configuration systems, PyTorch, modern serving infrastructure, Rust, React

Preferred skills

Privacy-preserving ML (differential privacy, federated averaging, secure aggregation), on-device inference at scale, evaluating modern models under realistic constraints, open-source contributions to evaluation harnesses

Responsibilities

Translate research findings into engineering work, convert regressions into research questions, integrate production observations into experimental probes, own multi-surface engineering programmes

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship potential

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