AI Engineering Director

Third Republic

London

1 year ago

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As a Direct of AI Engineering, you will be recruiting and leading a cross-functional team and deliver cutting-edge data platform. You will also be enhancing the process of hiring and engaging with key stakeholders within the organisation.

What You’ll be Doing
• Recruit, develop or lead cross-functional teams and plan the delivery of a next-gen precision target data platform
• Work alongside tech leadership and align strategies with the engineering roadmap
• Report progress of the projects towards the end goal
• Engage and communicate with main users and stakeholders
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• Work with MLOps team and AI technology to fast track AI research
• Motivate and engage high-performance workers and help them deliver to their full potential
• Enhance the hiring process to develop and diversify the engineering teams while building precision target platform

What You’ll Bring in This Role
• More than 10 years of development experience of leading high-performing engineers
• Supervise all aspects of mentorship, leadership and career development
• Well-versed with delivering a project using graph database technology stack
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• Know-how of major machine learning applications and methods
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Your Benefits
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