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London, United Kingdom£130K–£160K + Equity

Staff AI/ML Engineer at Tech-forward insurance platform

Are you ready to be the first AI/ML hire at a high-growth startup transforming the London insurance market? This is a rare greenfield opportunity to own the entire AI strategy, from architecting MLOps foundations to shipping production-grade RAG systems. You'll work directly with the CTO to build tools that augment expert judgment in a legacy industry ripe for disruption. If you're a seasoned engineer who thrives on autonomy and wants to see your code directly impact business outcomes, this role offers a significant equity stake and the chance to shape a company's technical trajectory from day one.

Overview

Role overview

As the first AI/ML hire, you will architect and build intelligent systems from the ground up to transform specialty insurance. Working directly with the CTO, you will own the full technical strategy—from MLOps infrastructure to production RAG systems—that augments expert decision-making and surfaces critical portfolio insights in a legacy industry.

Company

About the company

Tech-forward insurance underwriting platform

Responsibilities

What you will do

  • Design and deploy production-grade AI systems, including RAG architectures for natural language querying and automated risk signal models for underwriters.
  • Build and own the entire ML infrastructure stack, establishing MLOps practices, experiment tracking, and deployment pipelines from scratch.
  • Collaborate with domain experts to identify high-impact AI opportunities across portfolio analytics, claims processing, and operational workflows.

Candidate profile

Who this is a fit for

  • 10+ years of software and ML engineering experience with a proven track record of shipping production-grade systems that users depend on.
  • Deep expertise in LLM-based systems, RAG architectures, and traditional ML techniques like anomaly detection and time-series forecasting.
  • Strong engineering foundations in cloud infrastructure, API development, and CI/CD, with a pragmatic approach to balancing innovation and stability.

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What makes it remarkable

Why this role is remarkable

  • You are the founding AI hire with complete autonomy to define the technical roadmap and architectural choices without legacy constraints.
  • Join a well-funded startup led by industry veterans at the intersection of traditional Lloyd's market expertise and cutting-edge machine learning.
  • Tackle high-impact, greenfield challenges using messy, real-world data to build systems that provide a genuine competitive advantage in a trillion-dollar industry.

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