Senior Software Engineer (MLOps) - 18 month FTC, Oxfida
£70-95k
Developing advanced AI capabilities to tackle risk across increasingly complex systems
Job no longer available
Developing advanced AI capabilities to tackle risk across increasingly complex systems
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£70-95k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To harness AI to understand, predict, and manage risk, helping build a safer, more resilient society.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of commercial software experience, with a track record of shipping maintainable code in a team
- Solid Python, including the core data/ML libraries (pandas, numpy, scikit-learn) and good instincts on structure, testing, and packaging
- Practical cloud infrastructure experience, including deploying services, managing storage, and working with access controls. AWS preferred, but strong experience with another provider counts
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and Helm, and comfort with CI/CD, version control, and containerisation as everyday tools
- Some exposure to ML infrastructure or data engineering, such as training pipelines, model serving, experiment tracking, or data pipelines
- The ability to explain what you've built, why, and what trade-offs you made
Desirable
- LLM serving/fine-tuning (even personal projects)
- Agentic AI frameworks (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI)
- Kubeflow/KServe, GitOps/IaC (Flux, Terraform),
- Or an interest in privacy-preserving techniques
What the job involves
- You'd join a small, technically strong engineering team, led by an experienced Technical Lead, building the infrastructure that CODAS runs on: secure cloud infrastructure, ML model serving and training pipelines, and agentic development tooling. This is a hands-on infrastructure and platform role with genuine room to grow into more senior technical responsibility as the programme scales
- Help design, build, and run the cloud infrastructure behind a privacy-preserving AI research programme, working under the Technical Lead
- Build model hosting and training infrastructure, secure data storage, and agentic development tooling that the research tracks depend on
- Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code, and contribute to shared engineering standards, CI/CD, and documentation
- Support integration with partner environments and research workflows, troubleshooting issues as they come up
- Get stuck into technical trade-offs, ask good questions, and learn fast as tools and requirements evolve
- We're not expecting you to already have deep experience across every part of this stack. We're looking for a strong engineer with solid fundamentals, who picks up new tools fast and cares about building things that work reliably and responsibly
Our take
Founded in partnership with Japanese-founded insurance company Aioi Nissay Dowa, Oxfida is an R&D company researching the applications of AI within the insurance and risk analysis industry.
Oxfida collaborates with professors, researchers, graduates, and Oxford University spinout companies to help build a safer and more resilient society. It does this through pioneering research into emerging risks that affect the insurance and risk analysis market, such as the supply chain, nature, and self-driving vehicles. It focusses on technologies such as agentic AI, complex system modelling and quantum technologies and their potential uses within this space.
The applications of Oxfida's research are manifold. Its partnership with one of the world’s leading insurance companies provides unparalleled scope and scale for the small team’s research. With this kind of support, and AI’s high suitability as a predictive model in risk and insurance, it’ll be exciting to see what grows out of this well-backed R&D venture.
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Company
Company benefits
- Annual Leave - minimum 25 days + bank holidays
- Private Medical Insurance
- Pension Scheme
- Health Cash Plan
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
People progressing
From PhD intern to Director of AI Delivery — Bernardo grew his career and our team.
Harriet joined Mind Foundry as a Project Manager in 2020. She's now Head of Project Management at the Aioi R&D Lab, continuing to grow her team here!
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