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Lead Machine Learning Scientist, FinCrime

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2 months ago
Remote, United Kingdom or London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Identify and scope high-impact financial crime and fraud opportunities for machine learning.
  • Design and develop advanced real-time machine learning models to detect suspicious behavior and changing fraud trends.
  • Own the end-to-end delivery of ML solutions from business problem definition through measurable production impact.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and best-practice guidance across the machine learning discipline.
  • Work with MLOps specialists to improve tools supporting rapid model iteration and the full ML model lifecycle.
  • Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, backend engineers, designers, and other stakeholders in a cross-functional product squad.

Requirements

  • Multiple-year track record leading the development and deployment of advanced machine learning models for real business problems, preferably in a fast-moving technology company.
  • Experience developing and shipping deep learning, graph-based, and/or sequence-based ML architectures to production.
  • Extensive experience writing production Python and strong command of SQL.
  • Willingness to learn Go, which is used in backend microservices.
  • Experience working through ambiguity, communicating ML concepts to non-specialists, and collaborating cross-functionally.
  • Product mindset with a focus on customer outcomes, measurable impact, and data-informed decisions.
  • Preferred: experience with financial crime and regulated institutions.
  • Preferred: commercial experience writing critical production code and working with microservices.

Benefits

  • £1,000 annual learning budget for training courses and conferences
  • Relocation assistance to the UK
  • Visa sponsorship available
  • London office or distributed working remotely within the UK with ad hoc London meetings
  • Flexible working hours
  • Part-time work accommodated where possible

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