Company Description

At The Stepstone Group, we help everyone get the job that best fits their life. Whether it is the next step in their career, or a job to pay the bills - we exist to match lifestyles with livelihoods. We play our part by giving people everything they need to find the right job for them in that moment; making jobs work for more people, whatever they do, and however they choose to do it.   

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group is critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent on the market. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of your background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application or interviewing, please let us know. 

We also have a hybrid approach to working from home and in the office! 

Job Description

You will work closely together with 2 teams of data scientists & machine learning engineers. You will drive projects to improve the design of existing AI systems (classical ML & LLMs) on AWS and build new solutions. Your team will provide building blocks to train, evaluate, and serve large language models and demonstrate the capabilities of emerging technologies for Stepstone. In this role, you will cooperate with innovation teams across the company. This will allow you to get a deep understanding of different parts of the organisation and allow you to have significant impact with your contributions.  

Your tasks:  

• Enable the AI labs team and closely cooperate with data, infrastructure, and platform teams to design and deploy ML-based services using AWS Sagemaker 
• Understand current AI products, identify new opportunities, and drive their implementation.  
• Design experiments & deployment solutions in the realm of AI systems 
• Drive initiatives in the AI Labs teams to advance current ML workflows and software development standards  
• Develop talent in the AI labs team through learning & development as well as recruiting.  

Leadership Skills 

• Team-first attitude: you will work with a group of talented people from different quantitative disciplines and with different degrees of seniority 
• Questioning the status quo: the team's mission is to contribute to AI driven innovations at stepstone. 
• Curious, continuous learner: With exciting advances every week, willingness to experiment & learn is a necessary requirement for this role 
• Growth mindset: overcoming current limitations and identifying new opportunities id what will make your team & you successful 
• Co-building: as a lab team, you will necessarily work with experts from other teams to understand the different domains in depth and develop solutions that make a real difference to our customers and job seekers 
• Good communication skills in English, both written and verbal. Your team members are located in London, Brussels, Berlin, and Warsaw and you will communicate with other AI experts as well as senior management.  

Qualifications

• Industry experience in AWS ML services, including AWS Sagemaker 
• Experience in working with DevOps, Cloud Operations, ML-engineering teams 
• Expertise in driving projects to build enterprise scale ML & LLM solutions 
• Ambition to understand, question, & shape our ML-based services 
• Nice to have: Experience in projects involving deployment of LLMs at scale.  

Additional Information

• Holiday - 29 days holiday a year, plus public holidays.  In addition, you can buy or sell up to 3 days each year.  
• Charity - 2 additional days off every year to volunteer to charitable causes. You can also donate tax-free to a registered charity, and The Stepstone Group will match your contribution up to a value of £10 per month. 
• In house barista - Brewed fresh and free of charge. We also have fresh fruit and plenty of snacks.  
• Medical - Access to digital GP and well-being services. 
• Pension Scheme - We offer a competitive pension scheme to help you plan for the future 
• Family Leave - We understand that laying the foundations for a smooth start to family leave will also make for an easier transition back to the workplace and subject to qualifying criteria, the benefits under the Company Family schemes are more generous than required under current legislation. 

When you apply for a role with us you will be asked to complete an equal opportunities questionnaire. If you have any questions about this, please feel free to reach out to one of the team.