CareerPlan

Staff Applied ML Engineer - Financial Crime

London, England, gbFull-time£145k2026-10-01 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Lead the architecture strategy and production deployment of deep learning models for real-time financial crime detection at scale.

Role type

Staff Applied ML Engineer (Financial Crime)

Builds

Production neural models, end-to-end ML pipelines, and reusable patterns for risk modelling.

Domain

Financial services / Financial crime / Deep learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Deep learning fundamentals, architecture strategy, distributed training, ML pipeline orchestration, Python, PyTorch, system optimization (quantization, batching), graph neural networks, sequence modelling

Preferred skills

FinCrime/AML experience, foundation model fine-tuning, LLM evaluation, establishing modern ML practices

Technologies

PyTorch, Python, Graph Neural Networks, Foundation Models

Responsibilities

Design and ship deep learning models for real-time fraud detection, define ML architecture strategy, build reusable end-to-end ML pipelines, evaluate foundation models for transaction representation, partner on model evaluation and causal measurement, mentor engineers on production best practices

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence