Acorn is working with one of the most innovative and fast-growing start ups in South Wales, who are dedicated to engineering the future of drug discovery to change the course of people's lives.

Our client is passionate about what they do and the impact their discoveries have on patients across the globe. The successful candidate will help to design and build the machine learning platform that will empower the Machine Learning team to train, evaluate and deploy models at increased scale and speed.

They are using Google Cloud to deliver a platform that applies broad industry-standard engineering practices to specific biotech problems.


Day to day activities:

* Build reliable, secure, and scalable pipelines that allow the Machine Learning engineers to bring models to production and the lab scientists to gain the speedy insights they need.
* Collaborate with Machine Learning and Laboratory teams to better understand their needs from our machine learning models and infrastructure.
* Work cross-functionally with Data Engineering, ML Engineering, and DevOps to resolve issues and standardise practices.
* Utilise agile software development principles, DevOps/SRE, and MLOps practices


Key skills:

* Experience designing, evaluating and building an ML pipeline, from data preparation to model training, evaluation and model serving.
* Worked on data processing or enrichment at a large scale and are familiar with Python, DBT, Airflow, or similar tools.
* Experience deploying large language models / Transformers at scale.
* Familiarity applying devops approaches such as CICD to model training
* Experience in distributed training and hyper-parameter sweeps
* Knowledge of MLOps tooling (Kubeflow, MLflow, KServe, VertexAI etc.) and common design patterns
* Experience deploying machine learning applications and tools in a secure Kubernetes cluster


Benefits:

* Stock Options
* 25 days + public holidays
* Flexible working hours
* Modern office space in the middle of Cardiff
* Allowances for equipment both for home and office
* Discounted Gym and Pool membership
* Referral Bonus


If this opportunity sounds of interest, then please apply or get in touch with Dan Newton at Acorn by Synergie.

Acorn by Synergie acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment.