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Since then, we’ve worked with over 350 global customers to transform their performance through human-centric AI. You can read about our real-world impact here.\nWe don’t chase hype cycles. We innovate, build and deploy responsible AI which moves the needle - and we know a thing or two about doing it well. We bring an unparalleled depth of technical, product and delivery expertise to our clients who span government, finance, retail, energy, life sciences and defence.\nOur business, and reputation, is growing fast and we’re always on the lookout for individuals who share our intellectual curiosity and desire to build a positive legacy through technology.\nAI is an epoch-defining technology, join a company where you’ll be empowered to envision its most powerful applications, and to make them happen.\nAbout the team\nIn our Professional and Financial Services Business unit, we bring everything we have learned in more than a decade of Applied AI, and use it to help our clients navigate a rapidly changing landscape.\nWe develop and embed AI solutions which help financial institutions become more efficient, enhance customer experience, and find the commercial upside in uncertain markets. Within the constraints of a highly regulated industry, we see so much opportunity for impactful innovation and are proud to set the gold-standard for marrying technical excellence with safe deployment.\nAbout the role\nJoin us as a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer to spearhead the technical direction and delivery of complex, innovative AI projects. You will act as a technical expert, applying your skills across various projects from AI strategy to client-side deployments, while ensuring architectural decisions are sound and reliable. \nThis role demands a balance of deep technical expertise and strong leadership, focusing on driving innovation, fostering team growth, and building reusable solutions across the organisation. If you're ready to manage high-risk projects and deliver practical, innovative outcomes, this is your chance to shape our future.\nWhat you'll be doing\nSetting the technical direction for complex ML projects, balancing trade-offs, and guiding team priorities.\n\nDesigning, implementing, and maintaining reliable, scalable ML/software systems and justifying key architectural decisions.\n\nDefining project problems, developing roadmaps, and overseeing delivery across multiple work-streams in often ill-defined, high-risk environments.\n\nDriving the development of shared resources and libraries across the organisation and guiding other engineers in contributing to them.\n\nLeading hiring processes, making informed selection decisions, and mentoring multiple individuals to foster team growth.\n\nProactively developing and executing recommendations for adopting new technologies and changing our ways of working to stay ahead of the competition.\n\nActing as a technical expert and coach for customers, accurately estimating large work-streams and defending rationale to stakeholders.\n\nWho we're looking for\nYou are a technical expert among your peers, capable of going deep on particular topics and demonstrating breadth of knowledge to solve almost any problem.\n\nYou possess strong Python skills and practical experience operationalising models using frameworks like Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.\n\nYou are an expert in at least one major Cloud Solution Provider (e.g., Azure, GCP, AWS) and have led teams to build full-stack web applications.\n\nYou have hands-on experience with containerisation tools like Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes.\n\nYou can successfully manage and coach a team of engineers, setting team-wide development goals to improve client delivery.\n\nYou find novel, clever solutions for project delivery and take ownership for successful project outcomes.\n\nYou're an excellent communicator who can proactively help customers achieve their goals and guide both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.\n\nOur Interview Process\nTalent Team Screen (30 minutes)\n\nIntroduction to the role (45 minutes)\n\nPair Programming Interview (90 minutes)\n\nSystem Design Interview (90 minutes)\n\nCommercial & Leadership Interview (60 minutes)\n\nOur Recruitment Ethos\nWe aim to grow the best team - not the most similar one. We know that diversity of individuals fosters diversity of thought, and that strengthens our principle of seeking truth. And we know from experience that diverse teams deliver better work, relevant to the world in which we live. We’re united by a deep intellectual curiosity and desire to use our abilities for measurable positive impact. We strongly encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, religions and sexual orientations.\nIf you don’t feel you meet all the requirements, but are excited by the role and know you bring some key strengths, please don't hesitate in applying as you might be right for this role, or other roles. We are open to conversations about part-time hours.\nA note on AI: we're happy for you to use it for research and interview prep, but please don't use it to generate answers during live interviews. 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