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AI Research Engineer Central London (Office-Based 4-5 Days per Week) £80,000 - £120,000 + Equity Package + Bi-Annual Salary Reviews + Annual Equity Refresh + 4 Weeks Remote Working Abroad Are you an AI Research Engineer looking to work at the forefront of large language models, agentic AI systems and computer vision, where you'll have the opportunity to build and fine-tune cutting-edge models that are transforming financial crime compliance while playing a key role in shaping the AI strategy of a rapidly growing technology business? This is an exciting opportunity to join an ambitious AI-driven company developing innovative solutions that help financial institutions automate complex compliance and anti-money laundering processes. Working within a highly talented team, you'll have significant ownership over AI development and the chance to directly influence product direction. In this role, you'll be responsible for building, evaluating and improving AI systems across LLMs, agentic workflows and vision models. You'll develop benchmarks and evaluation frameworks, fine-tune foundation models, build custom AI models and create automated feedback loops to continuously improve performance. You'll work closely with engineering and product teams to deliver robust AI solutions that solve real-world compliance challenges. The ideal candidate will have experience within AI research or AI engineering, including hands-on work with LLMs, model fine-tuning and agentic systems. Experience with computer vision, model evaluation frameworks and MLOps practices would be highly beneficial. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and wants to work on genuinely impactful AI technology. The Role: Build, evaluate and optimise LLM, agentic AI and computer vision systems Fine-tune and train custom AI models for specialist compliance applications Develop benchmarks, back testing frameworks and evaluation pipelines Implement continuous improvement loops using human feedback and model iteration Work closely with engineering and product teams to deliver AI-driven features The Person: 3+ years' experience in AI Research, Machine Learning or AI Engineering Strong experience with LLMs, prompt engineering and model fine-tuning Experience building, testing or deploying agentic AI systems Knowledge of model evaluation, benchmarking and MLOps best practices Passion for emerging AI technologies and solving real-world problems Reference Number: BBBH280777 Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd acts an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles. The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set and will be decided by our client, the employer. Rise are not responsible or liable for any hiring decisions made by the end client. We are an equal opportunities company and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.

Head of Research Central London (4-5 days per week in office) £130,000 - £180,000 + Equity + Bi-Annual Salary Reviews + Annual Performance-Based Equity Refresh Are you an accomplished AI Research or Machine Learning leader looking to build and lead a research function from the ground up, while remaining hands-on with cutting-edge LLMs, vision models and agentic systems solving complex, real-world problems within a highly regulated industry? This is a rare opportunity to take ownership of the AI research strategy within an ambitious early-stage technology business, where model quality, accuracy and explainability are fundamental to the product. You will set the research roadmap, build and develop a high-performing research team and lead the most technically challenging work. This will include model training and fine-tuning, agentic systems, evaluation infrastructure, distillation, failure analysis and continuous improvement using real-world feedback. While leadership remains a crucial aspect of the role, this specific position would suit someone looking to remain hands-on and work alongside the team on future developments. The ideal candidate will have significant applied AI research or ML engineering experience, alongside proven leadership experience taking research through to production. You will combine deep technical capability with strong research judgement and the ability to communicate complex concepts effectively across engineering, product, commercial teams and customers. The Role: Own the AI research strategy, roadmap and build-vs-adapt decisions. Build, lead and develop a team of AI researchers and engineers. Lead hands-on development across LLMs, vision models and agentic systems. Own evaluation, benchmarking, model quality and continuous improvement. Partner with product, engineering and commercial teams to deliver research into production. The Person: 5+ years' applied AI research or ML engineering experience. Proven experience leading technical teams and research through to production. Hands-on expertise with LLM/vision model training, fine-tuning, agents and evaluation. Strong understanding of model quality, benchmarking and production ML systems. Excellent research judgement, ownership and communication skills. Reference Number: BBBH280473 Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd acts an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles. The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set and will be decided by our client, the employer. Rise are not responsible or liable for any hiring decisions made by the end client. We are an equal opportunities company and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.