Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: London

Compensation: £120,000 - £150,000 / year

Description

What we do at Codat

Codat helps build deeper connections with business customers.

We offer products that make it easy to access, synchronize and interpret data from customers’ financial software for specific use cases, such as onboarding suppliers to commercial card programs and underwriting business loans.

The depth of specialization and expertise that runs through our products and service enables our clients to more effectively grow share of wallet, reduce churn and scale operations.

Our product vision

The shift to on-demand entertainment has fundamentally changed the way we live, relax, and socialize. In the same way, the shift to business data on-demand will change the way banks do business and the way the world interacts with financial services.

Codat is building the business data streaming service that will become the default means of collecting business information.

No longer spending endless time and money collecting data from customers so that they can manipulate it into something actionable, our clients will be able to seamlessly derive useful, up-to-date insight from their customers whenever they need it.As a result, they will build deeper, more meaningful relationships with customers, make their lives easier, and guide them to prosper.

This vision gives us a singular direction to shape our product decisions and visualize the impact we can have on the world

The role

We believe AI will transform the way our users interact with data: with more flexible, powerful insight delivered through entirely new experiences.

We are looking for a Principal ML Engineer to join us as our first generative AI hire and technical leader in this space. You will be responsible for establishing our nascent generative AI models in partnership with our Product team & data scientists.

You will be joining our existing data team to lead the development of our new vertical LLM products & capabilities, leveraging our existing deep dataset, expertise, ML and client base.

Over the last 8 years, we have built a suite of sophisticated industry leading deterministic ML models. The existing team is a blended mix of data science, ML Ops, and data engineering.

What you’ll bring to the team

Extensive machine learning engineering experience
LLM experience - tuning foundational models, or building from the ground up
Experience working as a data scientist and familiarity with the lifecycle of work and technology stack
Experience working with a product team
Experience leading on AI strategy
Passion for mentoring
Action oriented, open-minded, and a strong desire for ownership
Start-up mindset - as a start-up, it’s important that this person wants to help us deliver at pace and has the attitude to get things done

Benefits, perks & The office

We offer a range of benefits including:
🥼 Healthcare- We provide private health insurance through vitality after probation.
🌴 Holiday- 25 days+ bank holidays - rising one day per year of service up to 30 days.
🧩 Equity - Success is a team game and everyone should receive a piece of the success

Perks:
We have a range of other perks available from: Cycle to work schemes, charitable giving, tech benefits etc

🏢 Where we work
We have an office in the Farringdon, London. Given the importance of this role to Codat we highly encourage 3/4 days a week in the office to spend time learning from others as well as sharing your unique skills with the wider org.

Applied

Talent Team Conversation

First Interview

Technical Interview

Final Interview

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