Location: London / Remote Europe Considered
Compensation: Competitive Base Salary Bonus Travel Allowance
About the Role
We are seeking a hands-on ML Tech Lead to build and lead a brand-new team in a recently created, well-funded AI initiative. You’ll be responsible for shaping the direction of a cutting-edge platform for AI-driven video search and discovery, combining audio, video, and text data. This is a high-visibility role with the chance to impact creative teams and artists globally.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead a multidisciplinary team of backend, frontend, and AI engineers
- Architect and develop a multimodal AI search platform (video, audio, text)
- Design and build scalable content ingestion, indexing, and retrieval systems
- Integrate ML models into production search infrastructure (vector search, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch)
- Mentor engineers and foster a high-impact, collaborative team environment
- Deliver robust, production-ready systems on modern cloud infrastructure
- Strong experience in machine learning, especially multimodal models
- Hands-on technical expertise in building large-scale search or recommendation systems
- Proficiency in cloud-based architectures and scalable production systems
- Leadership experience: building, mentoring, and guiding engineering teams
- Passion for music, media, or creative technology is a plus
- Lead a newly created, high-impact initiative within a global entertainment leader
- Work with massive audiovisual datasets and state-of-the-art AI technology
- Shape tools that directly support artists, creative teams, and content discovery
- Be part of a well-funded, forward-thinking AI lab with long-term growth opportunities
