Dex
Founding Engineer - ML Systems (up to £180k)
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The role
This company builds foundation models for extreme physics: the regimes behind semiconductors, aerospace, defence, and fusion energy. Their work accelerates progress in fields where existing simulation tools are too slow or brittle, enabling designs traditional workflows can't reach. They're backed by leading investors and tackling problems with global impact.
You'll be the first dedicated engineering owner for the ML stack, joining a small, highly technical team of researchers. This isn't a narrow systems role, nor is it pure research; you'll turn prototypes into robust code, integrate research branches, and build the in-house tooling for experiment tracking and hyperparameter optimisation. You'll also add distributed training capabilities and own the backend platform delivering these models to customers, setting the engineering culture from day one.
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The work
- Own the entire ML stack: model code, training and evaluation workflows, and experiment infrastructure.
- Build and implement distributed training capabilities for large-scale model development.
- Integrate independently developed research branches into a coherent, production-ready codebase.
- Profile and resolve real bottlenecks in training stability and performance, improving system efficiency.
- Design and build the backend platform that delivers these foundation models to customers.
What You Bring
- You are a senior, hands-on engineer who still writes and ships critical code.
- Strong practical experience with PyTorch across model code, data pipelines, and training loops.
- Proven track record with distributed training (multi-GPU/node, GPU clusters), understanding associated memory and communication challenges.
- Real model-engineering experience in physics/simulation, vision, or LLM systems, with a focus on data-driven system improvement.
- Solid Python platform and backend foundations: API design, workflow orchestration, and practical Docker/Kubernetes/IaC.
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