Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Sightline

£100-150k

Mid and Senior level

London

New York

2-5 days a week in office

Market intelligence for clients to compete and win in the climate transition

Open for applications

Market intelligence for clients to compete and win in the climate transition

21-100 employees

B2BEnergyMarket researchBusiness IntelligenceSaaS

Open for applications

£100-150k

Mid and Senior level

London

New York

2-5 days a week in office

21-100 employees

B2BEnergyMarket researchBusiness IntelligenceSaaS

Company mission

To bring clarity to the new climate economy.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

8+ years experience as a Software Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, Data Engineer or equivalent
Deep expertise in Python development
Experience in machine learning / natural language processing / AI
Proven history developing and maintaining production-grade software
Interest in working for a fast-moving startup with a small, international team
A MSc degree in Computer Science, Engineering or other relevant field

Desirable

Experience using Django, AWS, and the OpenAI API
A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from datasets
Experience working with Linear / Agile framework
Experience using Github Actions
Working understanding of climate tech sectors

What the job involves

Collection — Implement web scraping and other collection techniques to increase the speed, efficiency, and breadth of data collection
Processing — Implement AI, natural language processing, and machine learning models to extract, classify, and transform data
Infrastructure — Assist in developing and maintaining Sightline’s ML ops infrastructure, including inference, performance evaluation, continuous improvement, and integration with third-party APIs and services
Analysis — Analyze the performance of the machine learning and data stack to identify opportunities to improve coverage and accuracy

Application process

Video call with hiring manager (20min)
Short take-home exercise
In-person / video pair session with team (120min)
In-person / video call with co-founders
References and offer

Our take

The climate tech sector is rapidly growing as the world focuses on sustainable energy solutions. Clean energy technologies are attracting increasing investment, especially in areas like powering data centers and AI.

Sightline is an AI-powered market intelligence platform that provides data and insights into emerging climate technologies. Essentially, it helps investors, corporations, and governments navigate the transition economy, offering a "climate-first" approach that accelerates the deployment of clean energy solutions across sectors like energy, transport, and industry.

With hefty funding under its belt, Sightline is now planning to expand its research capabilities and sector coverage. The rise in energy investment presents a great opportunity for the company to provide deeper analytics and tools to help stakeholders make more informed decisions.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Jan 2025

$5.5m

SEED

Aug 2024

$7.3m

EARLY VC

Total funding: $12.8m

Company benefits

Generous stock options
Competitive PTO + bank/federal holidays
401k and health insurance 🇺🇸

Company HQ

Scarsdale, Scarsdale, NY

Leadership

Kim Zou

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Prior to Sightline, they worked in Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan and as a Managing Partner at A-Level Capital.

Mark Taylor

(Co-Founder & CPO)

Previously the VP of Product at Kayrros. They also spent 14 years at BloombergNEF as a Lead Analyst, Product Owner, and then Head of Product.

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