Software Engineering Manager – Machine Learning

Oxford Knight
London
9 months ago
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Location: London, UK

Top Quant fund an experienced Engineering Manager / Tech Lead Manager to head a small, high-performing team focused on core ML infrastructure — distributed model training, LLM hosting/fine-tuning, and scalable deployment systems.


You’ll own technical direction, lead 6–7 experienced engineers, and drive the integration of advanced ML capabilities into real-world, high-stakes systems. This is a hands-on leadership role within a deeply technical environment. Short interview process.


You should have:

8+ years in software engineering, including team leadership


Deep ML infra & distributed systems expertise
Strong Python; working knowledge of C++/Java
Proven ability to build and scale complex, production-grade systems

Not a fit for junior or first-time managers.

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

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