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Machine Learning Team Lead

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom💼 Full-time🗓 2026-10-02 → 2026-10-04

Core

Lead a team of ML engineers to translate cutting-edge research into customer-centric speech solutions, specifically building and deploying large self-supervised architectures for speech recognition.

Role type

Senior Machine Learning Team Lead (Speech AI)

Builds

Production speech recognition models and scalable ML infrastructure

Domain

Speech AI / Natural Language Processing (via careerplan.io/jobs/4990873101-machine-learning-team-lead-at-speechmatics)

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Team leadership and mentoring, End-to-end ML development, Transformer architectures (GQA, KV-caching), Distributed training, Model inference optimization, Python, ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch), Cloud platforms, Software engineering practices

Preferred skills

Experience guiding ML engineers, Prioritizing by impact and time-to-value, Deploying models at scale

Technologies

PyTorch, TensorFlow, Cloud platforms

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor a world-class team of ML engineers, Provide technical oversight for end-to-end ML development, Guide adoption of software engineering best practices, Plan work and allocate resources to align with business objectives, Drive technical work to deliver high-quality solutions

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities