7 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set the architecture standard for complex GenAI work across the function through hands-on technical leadership.
- Review and sign off on materially complex AI systems, identifying architectural, safety, and reliability risks before production.
- Own shared foundations including retrieval patterns, evaluation infrastructure, data pipelines, and developer tooling.
- Build the hardest GenAI components and act as the technical escalation point for difficult engineering problems.
- Design production systems with graceful degradation, fallback behavior, reliability, affordability, and appropriate cost and latency.
- Develop senior engineers through challenging assignments, decision ownership, feedback, and mentoring.
- Shape hiring and performance reviews and provide actionable industry insight for technical planning.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience setting technical direction adopted by other engineering teams.
- Strong Python and practical SQL skills, particularly for grounding data, golden datasets, and failure analysis.
- Deep current expertise in retrieval at scale, vector stores, agentic orchestration, multimodal systems, evaluation infrastructure, and appropriate fine-tuning.
- Fluency in MLOps tooling, deployment, and cloud infrastructure, including AWS and GCP.
- Experience designing and operating production systems and being accountable when systems fail.
- A strong, practical point of view on evaluation and regression detection.
- A record of direct technical contributions that set a quality bar for other engineers.
- Ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience developing other engineers and contributing to hiring and engineering standards.
Benefits
- Competitive salary.
- Equity scheme.
- 25 days holiday.
- Flexible working with 2 days a week in the London office.
- Private medical insurance via BUPA.
- Life assurance.
- Pension scheme with a 5% employer contribution.
- Enhanced family leave, including 26 weeks of full pay for maternity or adoption.
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
- EV leasing scheme.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Nursery salary sacrifice scheme.
- 1 paid volunteering day per year.
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About Motorway
Motorway is a UK online marketplace for selling used cars, connecting private owners with verified dealerships through daily auctions. Sellers list vehicles via the app and dealers bid remotely, with the winning buyer arranging payment and collection. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, it is privately held and works with 8,000+ dealers nationwide, having helped hundreds of thousands of people sell their cars.