Director of AI London, England
Job description
About Adarga
Adarga is one of the UK’s leading developers of Artificial intelligence (AI) software. Its innovative AI platform is helping organisations to rapidly identify threat and opportunity signals buried within huge volumes of information so they can mitigate risk, act at speed and gain a competitive edge.
Adarga's platform, powered by natural language processing and network science technology, is currently supporting mission-critical decision-making across defence and national security in the UK, as well as expanding into new sectors.
What will you be doing?
- Own the AI and ML Ops initiatives within Adarga.
- Work with your peers in engineering and product to continuously improve our core product.
- Manager of managers for data scientists and machine learning engineers. Work with them to identify career progression and development opportunities.
- Keep track of the evolving AI landscape to make sure we use the relevant SOTA models and ML techniques to improve our product.
- Join occasional customer calls to understand their use cases and identify improvements.
- Ensure adherence to responsible AI practices.
- Hire, coach and retain the best data scientists and machine learning engineers.
- Plan and execute Data Science IP strategy.
Essential Requirements
- MS/PhD or equivalent in a quantitative discipline.
- Strong experience in leading AI/ML teams, technical & people management. Should have managed line managers.
- Excellent Python & software engineering skills. Experience in deep learning frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow.
- Expertise in end-to-end deployment of ML models.
- Experience in Natural Language Processing.
- Working with engineering & product teams
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Desirable Requirements
- Understanding of Knowledge Graphs & LLMs
- Experience in filing patents or managing IP strategy.
- Participation in fundraising for VC backed companies would be highly advantageous
- Previous experience of working with defence & national security customer.
- Experience in public speaking
- Willing to be a tech advocate for Adarga supporting with written content and speaking engagements
Further information
This is a hybrid role with an expectation that you can join us at our London office 2/3 days a week.
Interview process
- Initial Screening - In the first call, let our recruiter learn about you and your story to check a potential fit for Adarga. This is also a chance for you to ask first questions about the role and company. (Remote- 30 minutes)
- Introductory Interview- This will be a CV walkthrough with 2 members of our Data Science team
- Technical Interview – In this session, you will meet senior members of our data science team for a detailed assessment of your technical skills. (Remote ~1 hour)
- Final Interview - You will be invited to visit our London office to meet the executive leadership. This part of the interview will ask you to deliver a short presentation around a subject of your choice (Related to NLP/A.I/Data Science) (90 minutes)
Contact
Find out more about Adarga: https://adarga.ai/careers
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