Machine Learning Engineer, Cleo
Payments & Fraud
+ Equity
1-2 days a week in office
AI personal finance assistant
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AI personal finance assistant
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
1-2 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help millions of people improve their financial health, and relate to them in a way their banks never could.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in data science, machine learning engineering, or related roles
- Familiarity with deep learning and/or recommender systems
- Sound understanding of how the models you build drive user and business impact
- Proficient in Python programming and able to write moderate to complex SQL queries
- Strong ability to communicate findings to non-technical stakeholders
- Experience deploying machine learning models into production; familiarity with Docker containers and container orchestration tools is a plus
What the job involves
- You’ll join our existing Machine Learning team responsible for building and deploying production level models into Cleo’s products
- As a Machine Learning Engineer at Cleo you will be an embedded part of a cross-functional team made up of engineers, product managers and analysts
- You’ll primarily be leveraging advanced Natural Language Processing and Generative AI techniques to make Cleo more intelligent and improve our chatbot utility across a multitude of interesting use cases
- Enabling deeper understanding of our users financial situations and goals using transaction-level NLP to aid stronger coachability on saving and spending
- Enhanced user activation experience
- Growing user acquisition & engagement across our products
- Training or fine-tuning machine learning models, and collaborating with the engineering team to integrate them into Cleo’s product
- A wide range of ML tasks: classification, recommender systems, generative models
- Finding opportunities for model and product improvements in Cleo's extensive datasets of chat conversations, spending patterns, and app interactions
Salary benchmarks
Our take
People are increasingly not satisfied with the products being offered by traditional banks, which have proven slow to react to the needs of younger consumers who expect more from their everyday experiences.
Cleo was one of the first companies to make great use of chatbots that sit within Facebook's messenger app. This chatbot-first approach and Gen Z user base have given it strong virality. It now has millions of registered users, 99% of which are based in the US, leading to a decision to take a year break from the UK market to focus on its US Gen Z customers.
Its Series C funding will help the company to double down in the US, where it will make a significant increase in employee headcount, and enable Cleo to maintain and expand its service during an economic downturn.
Financial advice delivered via bots is a crowded space, so Cleo benefits from having a strong brand presence. It has gone for very bold, fun, Gen Z-focused messaging which helps it to stand out from competitors such as Emma, Plum, and Chip.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
43% female employees
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Nice people
"Cleople are unmatched. The vibes, the energy, the friendships. I genuinely love my colleagues and have developed real-life friendships. I don't know..."
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2022
$80m
SERIES C
Dec 2020
$44m
SERIES B
Total funding: $137.5m
Company benefits
- 25 days of Annual leave a year + public holidays (+ an additional day for every year you spend at Cleo)
- 401k matching in the US and 6% employer-matched pension in the UK
- Online courses, £150 annual budget & internal training to level up your skills
- Regular socials and activities, online and in-person
- Online mental health support via Spill
- 1 month paid sabbatical after every 4 years with Cleo
- OpenAI Plus subscription
- Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme and cycle-to-work scheme
- Life assurance and income protection via AIG
- Medical insurance via Axa and Healthcare cash plan via Medicash
- Performance reviews every 8 months. Generous pay increases for high performers and high-growth team members. Equity top-ups for team members getting promoted
Company values
- Make it Happen
- Learn at Speed
- Bring Good Vibes
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Barnaby Hussey-Yeo
(CEO)Data Scientist at Wonga, one of the companies that pioneered the smart use of data for loan decisions. Joined Entrepreneur First where Cleo was formed.
People progressing
Joined Cleo straight from Makers Academy in 2018, and became Technical Lead in 2021.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Cleo
Annie Jackson (Head of Talent )
- We’ve set up an internal committee of truly passionate people that are dedicated to ensuring Diversity and Inclusion is embedded in how we all operate as a team. We agree on meaningful actions, and get on with implementing them. We have three main focuses right now, which are:
- 1) Improving SocioEconomic diversity across the company
- 2) Increasing the number of women in Leadership roles
- 3) More community outreach
- Check out our 2022 Diversity and Inclusion report, here: https://web.meetcleo.com/blog/cleo-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-report-2022
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