Senior ML Engineer | London

C&D Talent Advisory - Academy is a venture-backed AI startup focused on building a next-generation foundation model for autonomous software delivery. They are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to lead the development and deployment of large-scale foundation models, and to optimize and build ML infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Foundation Model Development; Lead the research, development, and deployment of large-scale foundation models
• Define long-term technical strategy for high-performance ML systems
• Build scalable training and inference infrastructure
• Own model quality, performance, and reliability
• ML Infrastructure & Optimisation; Optimise distributed training and inference pipelines
• Design GPU-accelerated systems, including custom CUDA kernels when needed
• Profile and optimise data pipelines, training loops, inference, and deployment
• Build internal tooling, benchmarking systems, and evaluation frameworks
• Architecture & Collaboration; Design scalable ML infrastructure and solution architectures
• Evaluate and implement state-of-the-art ML technologies
• Work closely with founders to translate product goals into technical roadmaps
• Drive engineering excellence across the ML platform