AI / ML Innovation Lead / Rockstar – Senior Technical AI/ML Expert
Remote
England, United Kingdom
£ 150,000 / year
Full Time
12-03-2025
Job Specifications
AI / ML Innovation Lead / Rockstar – Senior Technical AI/ML Expert
Our client is redefining user authentication through powerful behavioural biometrics and AI, creating unique digital DNA profiles for seamless security. They are creating a new field of AI and advancing in exciting new projects that will be industry leading.
Now, they need a Senior AI/ML innovator and Specialist to push the boundaries of AI and take models from breakthrough research to deployment. This is a hands-on director-level leadership role at an exciting start-up company advancing in a new field of AI.
You will have a strong academic and professional background and be highly impactful. We are only looking for the most talented candidates for this search, and you will be compensated accordingly with equity consideration for a very exciting high growth business.
This high-impact leadership role reports directly to the board and offers the opportunity to define AI strategy, infrastructure, and innovation.
Reporting to the Chief AI Officer, you'll drive AI development and manage the processes that keep the machine learning models running smoothly in production.
You should be comfortable navigating ambiguity while balancing experimentation with delivery. If you thrive in an environment where you can explore new ideas while getting things done, this could be your ideal role.
The Role:
You will drive end-to-end AI model development, ensuring cutting-edge LLM solutions are designed, deployed, and continuously optimised for performance.
Architect and refine scalable ML pipelines, taking models from prototype to global-scale production
Optimise LLMs for real-world applications, ensuring efficiency, accuracy, and scalability
Work with complex real-world datasets, making models robust and adaptive to evolving user behaviours
Develop, test, and monitor AI/ML models, proactively mitigating drift and performance issues
Mentor junior engineers, shaping best practices and fostering technical excellence
Drive AI research into real-world applications, staying ahead of the latest AI advancements
Own AI deployment, ensuring seamless MLOps workflows, automation, and cloud scalability
What You Bring:
Start-up mindset, comfortable navigating ambiguity, moving fast, and delivering impact
Exceptional problem-solver; you don’t just work on AI, you innovate AI
Experience with real-world behavioural/sensor-based data
Proven success in taking ML models from prototype to full-scale production
Deep expertise in optimising and serving LLMs
Strong MLOps experience—CI/CD, containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), monitoring frameworks
Advanced Python skills (Pandas, NumPy, PyTorch, TensorFlow)
Cloud expertise (AWS preferred, but GCP/Azure also considered)
What’s in it for You?
Lead AI Development – shape ML strategy in a hands-on senior role
Equity Opportunity – Get in early and be part of the company’s success story
Direct Path to Leadership – Be the 2nd in command to the Chief AI Officer
Cutting-Edge Innovation – Work on AI that’s breaking new ground in user authentication
About the Company
55 Exec Search is a technology executive search company which has been founded to bring positive change to the industry. We have over 25 years experience providing an up front and honest service to both candidates and clients. We deliver the top talent to the best organisations globally. In today’s climate we understand that the most exceptional candidates are unlikely to be actively job seeking, this is why we target the passive candidate community to ensure we provide the best talent in the market. Our aim is to listen, g... Know more
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