Engineering Manager

Foxley Talent are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our UK Client’s team. This company uses AI and Machine Learning technology to understand why drug discovery projects fail during the research phase.

The successful Engineering Manager will be reporting to the Director of Engineering, for Data & Machine Learning.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager with a background as a ML engineer and may have recently transitioned into a leadership role. Ideally this person will have previously worked in the biological science domain.

This position is well suited to a leader who is both technically adept and passionate about guiding their team to create innovative solutions within the machine learning and data engineering space.

In this role, you will work closely with stakeholders across the business and will have a key impact on cross-team priorities and management.

The Engineering Manager can expect to work on the following in this role:

• A people leader of a team of ML/Data Engineers.
• Hands-on as required in Python coding, ML model design, system design, data modelling, code pairing, PR reviews, and writing technical documentation.
• Responsible for creating and execution of a technical roadmap for the team in line with the wider product roadmap.
• Technical leadership on Knowledge Enrichment projects using ML to enrich the data within the company’s Knowledge Graph.
• Work with other engineering leaders, ensuring alignment across technical solutions.
• Push ML best practices and state of the art ML approaches.
• Play a key role in future hiring.
• Provide mentorship, conducting regular one2one meetings with direct reports.

Applicants with the below background will be considered:

• 5+ years of professional experience as a ML engineer
• 3+ years in a technical leadership position
• 2+ years of experience working as an ML engineering manager
• Remained technically hands-on and contributed code over the last 12 months
• Knowledge of software engineering with industry experience using Python
• Track record delivering complex ML projects in a high performing team leveraging state-of-the-art ML techniques
• Understanding of modern machine learning techniques and applications
• Mastery of ML frameworks and libraries, with the ability to architect complex ML systems from scratch, The more ML Frameworks the better!
• Expert in training, fine-tuning, and deploying ML models at scale, while focussing on performance and efficiency optimisation.
• Experience implementing Large Language Models.
• Good understanding of Retrieval Augmented Generation architecture and experience deploying solutions leveraging RAG
• Expertise in graph machine learning and graph neural networks

The Engineering Manager requires effective communication skills with outstanding verbal and written communication skills. There is importance for this hire to have the ability to clearly explain complex technical concepts/systems to non-engineer stakeholders across the wider business.

Salary on offer is up to £120,000 with a long list of benefits.

This position is based within the UK, offering a remote working environment with occasional visits to Cambridge, London or to the company headquarters in Canada. Therefore not open to people based outside the UK or requiring a VISA for employment.

For more information and to apply, please send your latest CV and an email detailing your experience to jon@foxleytalent.com