Machine Learning Engineer in Sheffield

Machine Learning Engineer | Early Stage Deep Tech Start Up | London

I am partnered with an early stage, London based start up that is building an AI native intelligence layer for private market investing. The platform transforms fragmented documents, deal histories, and proprietary investment data into structured, searchable intelligence for private equity, venture capital, and private credit teams.

They are hiring a Founding Machine Learning Engineer to join at early stage, with real ownership over both the core technology and the product direction. This role suits someone with a strong academic background from a leading university, alongside clear evidence of success in high ownership projects:

Responsibilities

• Design and build machine learning models for document understanding, knowledge graphs, and data extraction
• Develop generative AI systems for research, summarisation, and investment memo drafting
• Solve complex problems involving unstructured and proprietary private company data
• Contribute to technical architecture and applied research direction
• Work closely with the founders on product decisions and feature delivery

On offer

• The opportunity to build a deep tech AI model and conduct original, applied research
• Founding engineer responsibility with high visibility and influence
• Hybrid working model in London
• Salary up to £50k plus meaningful equity
• Genuine ownership over what is built from day one

If you meet the above criteria and want to help build foundational AI technology within a small, ambitious team, please get in touch.