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Lead Data Scientist


My client is an award-winning AI fintech start-up delivering real-time and historical market intelligence using LLM-driven technology. Were entering a critical phase of growthand were looking for an exceptional senior engineering member to help us scale from start-up to industry leader.

You must have to ability to lead by example and grow a talented team, build a world-class engineering culture, and work hand-in-hand with our commercial and product teams to deliver ML/AI-powered tools that solve real-world problems in capital markets.

Required Experience:

  • 5 years+
  • Been part of tech start-up or worked for known technology company
  • Has scaled up teams from small to large
  • Built production ready pipelines and product
  • Strong all-rounder across technology fields (e.g. model deployment across cloud, API, AWS architecture, model fine-tuning / creation)

What You Will Be Doing

  • Always a key tech contributor
  • Offering leadership to current team
  • Working in a technical team of 6
  • Taken ...
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