Lead Machine Learning Engineer, Oxfida
£80-120k
Developing advanced AI capabilities to tackle risk across increasingly complex systems
Open for applications
Developing advanced AI capabilities to tackle risk across increasingly complex systems
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£80-120k
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
- A STEM degree or equivalent practical experience, plus 7+ years in ML engineering, software engineering, or a related technical role, including experience leading technical work across teams
- A strong software engineering background with real production-system delivery experience
- Experience managing or leading ML engineers or technical contributors in a delivery-focused setting
- Comfort supporting pre-sales or technical discovery work alongside commercial teams
- The judgement to lead solution design and assure engineering quality without being the primary hands-on contributor on every project
- Strong communication skills: you'll need to challenge stakeholder expectations sometimes, not just relay them
- Line management and delivery leadership across the Lab's ML engineering function, plus a meaningful hands-on contribution to technical delivery yourself
Desirable
- Bonus points: experience establishing ML engineering/MLOps best practice from scratch, background in regulated or enterprise environments, or a track record of driving reuse through shared frameworks and tooling
What the job involves
- This is a genuine dual role: real line management and delivery leadership across the Lab's ML engineering function, plus a meaningful hands-on contribution to technical delivery yourself. You'll manage a growing team of ML Engineers and Scientists, shape ML engineering practice across the Lab, and stay close enough to the work to actually lead it technically, not just report on it
- Line-manage and develop ML engineers: coaching, mentoring, feedback, and input into hiring and onboarding
- Stay hands-on with technical delivery on selected projects, alongside your leadership responsibilities across multiple engagements
- Work with the Lead ML Scientist and Principal Engineer to build ML engineering best practice across the Lab
- Work closely with the Project and Account Management teams to design and scope ML solutions that drive value for our customers
- Lead multidisciplinary teams of ML engineers, scientists, and software engineers, and support solution design so systems are robust and scalable
- Provide oversight and quality assurance across concurrent projects, flagging technical and delivery risks early
- Lead use case discovery and support pre-sales work alongside the commercial team
- Drive reuse of shared frameworks and standards across projects, and communicate technical risk clearly to non-technical stakeholders
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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