Research Manager | Production Inference
DeepLMachine Translation company
London, United KingdomManager
IVP
Bessemer Venture Partners
Index Ventures
ICONIQ Growth
Atomico
Teachers' Venture Growth
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Lead a team of researchers and ML engineers for production inference systems.
- •You will lead the Production Inference team, responsible for systems serving DeepL's language AI models reliably and efficiently at scale.
- •This role bridges research ambition with production discipline, impacting every DeepL product.
- •Key Responsibilities Lead and develop a high-performing team of research scientists and ML engineers.
- •Own the team's research and development roadmap for production inference systems.
- •Act as the primary technical interface between the Production Inference team and adjacent functions.
- •Drive the reliability, efficiency, and cost performance of DeepL's model serving stack.
- •Requirements PhD (preferable) in a quantitative discipline or strong ML/systems background.
- •Strong foundation in production ML systems, inference optimisation, or model serving at scale.
- •Proven experience leading a team of researchers or ML engineers.
- •Comfortable operating across the full model lifecycle.
- •Excellent communication skills and ability to translate complex technical direction.
Required skills
Engineering ManagementLLMsPythonKubernetesDockerAWSGoogle CloudAzureNLPTensorFlowPyTorch
Nice-to-have skills
ONNX
Domain expertise
aideveloper-tools
Benefits & perks
Hybrid work, Flexible hours, Virtual Shares, Team events, Hacking sessions, 30 days of annual leave, Mental health resources, Competitive benefits
Tech stack
PythonTensorFlowPyTorchKubernetesDockerAWSGoogle CloudAzureLLMsNLP
