AI / ML Engineer | AI Start-Up | London Hybrid | Up to £100,000

VirtueTech Recruitment Group is partnered with an ambitious early-stage technology company building AI-powered products for financial markets. The role involves developing and deploying machine learning applications, collaborating with a skilled engineering team to create impactful AI solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Developing and deploying LLM-powered applications using PyTorch and SGLang
• Building, fine-tuning, and optimising embedding and reranking models
• Implementing parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniques, including PEFT and LoRA adapters
• Designing data curation pipelines, including synthetic data generation for model training and evaluation
• Working closely with product teams and domain experts to translate complex trading workflows into practical AI solutions
• Running experiments, evaluating model performance, and rapidly deploying improvements into production
• Contributing to the infrastructure supporting the training, evaluation, and deployment of machine learning systems