Applied Science Manager – Computer Vision / ML in London

Location: London, UK (Hybrid – 3 days in office)

Position Overview

You will lead a team of 6 applied scientists in training and evaluating vision‑language models for data extraction and tiny mobile models. The role is 50% hands‑on coding and 50% leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define the team’s roadmap in collaboration with product and engineering leads.
• Stay up‑to‑date on vision‑language and efficient ML literature, translating insights into product opportunities.
• Manage a team of 6 Applied Scientists.
• Contribute to dataset creation, model training, and evaluation code.
• Push research frontiers in vision‑language modeling, document understanding, few‑shot learning, distillation, quantization, and active learning.
• Publish research results in national and international conferences and scientific journals.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience leading a team of ML scientists or research engineers.
• 5+ years industry experience as an individual contributor in a machine learning science team.
• Strong experience in machine learning and computer vision.
• Strong record of delivering high‑performance ML‑driven products.
• Deep understanding of machine learning theory.
• Strong coding skills in Python and PyTorch.

Preferred Experience

• Technical experience in document understanding, vision‑language modeling, few‑shot learning, distillation, quantization, and active learning.
• Publications at top‑level machine learning conferences.
• Experience optimizing distributed training code.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Entrust is an EEO/AA/Disabled/Veteran Employer and is committed to building a diverse workforce. We welcome applications from qualified individuals of all backgrounds and strive to provide an accessible experience for candidates of all abilities.