Do you like working with the latest technology and are interested in enhancing your tech abilities? We are currently recruiting for a Test Engineering Lead with a strong test engineering background, who loves to be hands-on and gets enjoyment out of solving complex problems. If you like to challenge the status quo and think differently, we would really like you to be a part of our exciting new team. A bit about the job: Aviva Zero is a greenfield Personal Lines insurer headquartered in London, set with the ambition to be the best in the UK market. It will combine the pace, focus, and test and learn mentality of a start-up with the expertise , and financial backing of Aviva. As a Test Engineering Lead , you will work with stakeholders, SME's and the rest of the Software Engineer team s , to deliver excellent and timely customer outcomes through continuous development and delivery. You will implement improvements to our test standards and practices to increase the quality and efficiency of delivery. You will take a lead on the definition and implementation of our test strategy , to help ensure continuous deployments achieve the desired customer outcomes. Essential skills and experience we're looking for : Experience in defining and implementing test strategies in the context of event driven and microservices architectures. Ability to l ead engineering team s in embedding a quality first approach to development using test-driven development techniques. Well-versed in modern development practices including Agile and continuous deployments, DevOps and either AWS, Azure or Google cloud. Work in a collaborative environment, working through challenges with colleagues whilst having fun along the way. Experience of stakeholder management including at a senior level and e xperience of people leadershipwith a passion for developing others through mentoring and coaching. Additional Information Our Tech Stack - (experience with all of the below is not required ) AWS: Lambda, ECS, Dynamo DB, S3, Event Bridge, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, VPC, Security Hub, Control Tower and Cloud Trail Extra: CDK as infrastructure as Code, Snowflake, LaunchDarkly , Pagerduty Programming languages: we use Go heavily along with Python and Typescript What you'll get for this role: Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow - is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague. Starting salary circa £85,000 (depending on skills, experience, and qualifications) Bonus opportunity - 12% of annual salary - Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva's Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer's leave Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools Take a look to learn more. Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be. Aviva is for everyone: We're inclusive and welcome everyone - we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you're in a job share just apply as a pair. We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working -spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues. To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you've applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we'll interview you. We'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Matthew Drew a call on or send an email to .
May 14, 2024
Full time
Do you like working with the latest technology and are interested in enhancing your tech abilities? We are currently recruiting for a Test Engineering Lead with a strong test engineering background, who loves to be hands-on and gets enjoyment out of solving complex problems. If you like to challenge the status quo and think differently, we would really like you to be a part of our exciting new team. A bit about the job: Aviva Zero is a greenfield Personal Lines insurer headquartered in London, set with the ambition to be the best in the UK market. It will combine the pace, focus, and test and learn mentality of a start-up with the expertise , and financial backing of Aviva. As a Test Engineering Lead , you will work with stakeholders, SME's and the rest of the Software Engineer team s , to deliver excellent and timely customer outcomes through continuous development and delivery. You will implement improvements to our test standards and practices to increase the quality and efficiency of delivery. You will take a lead on the definition and implementation of our test strategy , to help ensure continuous deployments achieve the desired customer outcomes. Essential skills and experience we're looking for : Experience in defining and implementing test strategies in the context of event driven and microservices architectures. Ability to l ead engineering team s in embedding a quality first approach to development using test-driven development techniques. Well-versed in modern development practices including Agile and continuous deployments, DevOps and either AWS, Azure or Google cloud. Work in a collaborative environment, working through challenges with colleagues whilst having fun along the way. Experience of stakeholder management including at a senior level and e xperience of people leadershipwith a passion for developing others through mentoring and coaching. Additional Information Our Tech Stack - (experience with all of the below is not required ) AWS: Lambda, ECS, Dynamo DB, S3, Event Bridge, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, VPC, Security Hub, Control Tower and Cloud Trail Extra: CDK as infrastructure as Code, Snowflake, LaunchDarkly , Pagerduty Programming languages: we use Go heavily along with Python and Typescript What you'll get for this role: Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow - is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague. Starting salary circa £85,000 (depending on skills, experience, and qualifications) Bonus opportunity - 12% of annual salary - Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva's Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer's leave Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools Take a look to learn more. Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be. Aviva is for everyone: We're inclusive and welcome everyone - we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you're in a job share just apply as a pair. We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working -spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues. To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you've applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we'll interview you. We'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Matthew Drew a call on or send an email to .
Principal AI Engineer, NLP, Large Language Models, Drug Discovery West London - office based 4 days per week Highly competitive salary + BUPA + high Bonus We're looking for an MSc/PhD level AI Engineer/AI Scientist. An Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning expert to contribute to a transformational change in the way drug discovery is done with a high growth, fast-paced biotechnology company. The Principal AI Engineer will specialise in NLP/LLMs bringing in-depth expertise - real problem-solving 'under the bonnet' knowhow of LLMs eg. GPT-4, Claude, Huggingface, LLaMA, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Pinecone etc. Responsibilities: • Co-developing and implementing cutting-edge in-house AI capabilities and infrastructure primarily in the domain of NLP and, specifically, LLMs to support drug discovery • Responsibility for software and data engineering projects and development/maintenance of computational platform infrastructure to support AI-driven drug discovery • Review and development of existing platform engineering solutions to support bioinformaticians, computational and discovery biologists, oligonucleotide chemists and business analysts You will need: • MSc/PhD and ideally 4+ years post-doctoral or similar experience, in AI/Machine Learning, Textual Analysis/Natural Language Processing and Transformer technology/Large Language Models • Experience in Network Science and modern statistical methods would be a plus • Proven track record of contributions to large AI domain software and data engineering projects relevant to the life sciences, ideally in drug discovery, preferably in a biotech start-up environment • Strong interpersonal skills which support team cohesion while being able to provide direct and constructive feedback and solutions • Well-developed communication skills with demonstrated ability to communicate effectively both in writing (reports, publications in scientific journals, etc) and via oral presentations • Ability to think critically and demonstrate troubleshooting and problem-solving skills • Experience of collaborative projects with other biopharma partners would be an advantage Knowledge/experience - will include several of: • The application of AI/ML approaches to problems in the Life Sciences • NLP and Large Language Models eg. GPT-4, Claude, Huggingface, LLaMA, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Pinecone etc. • Tools, techniques, and processes of modern software development, e.g. version control, CI/CD, DevOps, and DataOps • Cloud native technologies and approaches such as Docker and Kubernetes • Cloud computing environments with a preference for AWS • UX/UI design and deployment an advantage • Engineering and data solutions to support bioinformatic workflow design and development, with a focus on ML/AI applications • Data management techniques for large-scale scientific data sets • High level programming skills in a number of modern programming languages such as Java, C/C++, R and Python • SOA NLP APIs and Machine Learning / Deep Learning frameworks • Translating user requirements into workflow designs/specifications • Building and optimising data processing pipelines e.g. Nextflow/Nextflow Tower, SQL/NoSQL • Experience with graph databases is highly desirable You will be joining a stunning, world class, tech team of problem solvers. Some of the wider benefits: BUPA for self + partner/family Discretionary bonus 10% employer pension contribution Principal AI Scientist Principal AI Engineer Machine Learning Engineer NLP Engineer Job Types: Full-time, Permanent Pay: £73,685.00-£100,767.00 per year Benefits: • Company pension • Private medical insurance • Work from home Schedule: • Monday to Friday Supplemental pay types: • Bonus scheme Application question(s): • Are you comfortable working from a west London office 4 days per week? Education: • Bachelor's (required) Work authorisation: • United Kingdom (required) Work Location: Hybrid remote in London Reference ID: RWAAIEngineer Company: Richard Wheeler Associates Qualifications: Language requirements: Specific requirements: Educational level: Level of experience (years): Senior (5+ years of experience) Tagged as: Industry , Language Modeling , Machine Learning , Natural Language Processing , NLP , United Kingdom
May 08, 2024
Full time
Principal AI Engineer, NLP, Large Language Models, Drug Discovery West London - office based 4 days per week Highly competitive salary + BUPA + high Bonus We're looking for an MSc/PhD level AI Engineer/AI Scientist. An Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning expert to contribute to a transformational change in the way drug discovery is done with a high growth, fast-paced biotechnology company. The Principal AI Engineer will specialise in NLP/LLMs bringing in-depth expertise - real problem-solving 'under the bonnet' knowhow of LLMs eg. GPT-4, Claude, Huggingface, LLaMA, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Pinecone etc. Responsibilities: • Co-developing and implementing cutting-edge in-house AI capabilities and infrastructure primarily in the domain of NLP and, specifically, LLMs to support drug discovery • Responsibility for software and data engineering projects and development/maintenance of computational platform infrastructure to support AI-driven drug discovery • Review and development of existing platform engineering solutions to support bioinformaticians, computational and discovery biologists, oligonucleotide chemists and business analysts You will need: • MSc/PhD and ideally 4+ years post-doctoral or similar experience, in AI/Machine Learning, Textual Analysis/Natural Language Processing and Transformer technology/Large Language Models • Experience in Network Science and modern statistical methods would be a plus • Proven track record of contributions to large AI domain software and data engineering projects relevant to the life sciences, ideally in drug discovery, preferably in a biotech start-up environment • Strong interpersonal skills which support team cohesion while being able to provide direct and constructive feedback and solutions • Well-developed communication skills with demonstrated ability to communicate effectively both in writing (reports, publications in scientific journals, etc) and via oral presentations • Ability to think critically and demonstrate troubleshooting and problem-solving skills • Experience of collaborative projects with other biopharma partners would be an advantage Knowledge/experience - will include several of: • The application of AI/ML approaches to problems in the Life Sciences • NLP and Large Language Models eg. GPT-4, Claude, Huggingface, LLaMA, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Pinecone etc. • Tools, techniques, and processes of modern software development, e.g. version control, CI/CD, DevOps, and DataOps • Cloud native technologies and approaches such as Docker and Kubernetes • Cloud computing environments with a preference for AWS • UX/UI design and deployment an advantage • Engineering and data solutions to support bioinformatic workflow design and development, with a focus on ML/AI applications • Data management techniques for large-scale scientific data sets • High level programming skills in a number of modern programming languages such as Java, C/C++, R and Python • SOA NLP APIs and Machine Learning / Deep Learning frameworks • Translating user requirements into workflow designs/specifications • Building and optimising data processing pipelines e.g. Nextflow/Nextflow Tower, SQL/NoSQL • Experience with graph databases is highly desirable You will be joining a stunning, world class, tech team of problem solvers. Some of the wider benefits: BUPA for self + partner/family Discretionary bonus 10% employer pension contribution Principal AI Scientist Principal AI Engineer Machine Learning Engineer NLP Engineer Job Types: Full-time, Permanent Pay: £73,685.00-£100,767.00 per year Benefits: • Company pension • Private medical insurance • Work from home Schedule: • Monday to Friday Supplemental pay types: • Bonus scheme Application question(s): • Are you comfortable working from a west London office 4 days per week? Education: • Bachelor's (required) Work authorisation: • United Kingdom (required) Work Location: Hybrid remote in London Reference ID: RWAAIEngineer Company: Richard Wheeler Associates Qualifications: Language requirements: Specific requirements: Educational level: Level of experience (years): Senior (5+ years of experience) Tagged as: Industry , Language Modeling , Machine Learning , Natural Language Processing , NLP , United Kingdom
BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,800 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 16 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments. About The Team The AWS Product team manage the Digital Intelligence AWS infrastructure, which enables our globally-distributed software engineers. The team is responsible for delivering accounts/environments, as self-managed environments or managed-fabric services, and ensuring that the platform is continually developed to meet the evolving needs of the business and capabilities of the platform. We primarily follow an Infrastructure-as-Code deployment model and Agile delivery processes, for both operational management (including site reliability engineering) and new capability delivery. About The Role The AWS cloud engineer will work across our deployed AWS cloud technologies used to build up the services in scope for the AWS Infrastructure product team. This is a multi-functional role that works with a Product Team to deliver business value through a high quality product using optimised-flow delivery models based on Agile practices such as Scrum or Kanban. Primarily working with AWS cloud infrastructure technologies and day to day operational activities, the engineer will be responsible for the whole design responsibilities also exist within the role, under the supervision and direction of the AWS product architect. The key aspect of the role will be to endorse, support and maintain re-usable patterns that the team has already built and going to build, utilising infrastructure as code so that future deployments can be delivered through automation and code-reuse. Its an amazing time to join our team and you'll be supported by a experienced team of specialists in Engineering Operations, Scrum Masters and Information Security to build cloud agnostic patterns delivered through automation. As Cloud engineer , you will have deep understanding of the AWS infrastructure, its use-cases and how it brings benefits to the users of the service. He/she will live and breathe the Agile manifesto and will use, processes, tools and culture to continuously improve what they and how they work. You'll support a critical set of business activities in the cloud: Developing. Configuring, deploying and supporting our infrastructure services. Management of AWS specific services like AWS Accounts, AWS Organisations, VPC Management , CloudFormation, Security Hub , Route 53, Guardduty and Quicksight. Whilst there will be focus on working with our AWS platform the role will have responsibilities across our entire technology portfolio. Writing scripts in Python, Powershell, Terraform and other automation artefacts to enable future re-use , either within the same platform or other segregated platforms. Working on issues in Jira with rest of the team - building automation processes , creating CloudFormation/serverless templates to deploy strandard environments. Documentation of deployed systems, scripts and other working practices to enable, re-use and support users across the world. Support our engineering teams in their use and migration to public cloud platforms. Participation in our on-call rota to support our production systems. Adhere to IT security standards and regulation. Provide product and service direction to the Product Management team and implement these as part of the self-organising team. Review, establish and adhere to appropriate governance and configuration control. Driving issue resolution and resolve underpinning problems. Work with customers to introduce innovation and evolve the product, Work with suppliers, customer, team members and industry peers to continuously improve delivery. Document technical problems & resolutions into format that business can understand. Contribute to protecting the products from technical debt and process debt. A working foundation in process frameworks like, ITIL, Prince2 and Agile with experience in executing these in a highly automotive and high velocity output and consistently changing operational environment. Requirements Experience in managing a large multi-account AWS estate. Terraform, Python and Powershell scripting experince. Managing VPC, Cloudformation, CloudWatch, Route53, AWS Config and AWS Control Tower. Experince building standard AWS service for all business users. Experience with various DevOps tools and CI/CD tools like Git, BitBucket, Jenkins etc , Experience in AWS Security services and Network Services. A working foundation in process frameworks like, ITIL, Prince2 and Agile with experience in executing these in a highly automotive and high velocity output and consistently changing operational environment. Desireable AWS Certifications like - AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect -Associate/Professional Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day. By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we're working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being. Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds - the best and brightest minds - can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential. Division overview: Functions At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and the business could not operate without all the dedicated work of our Functions teams. From Finance & Operations through Communications & Marketing, to HR and Site Operations and more, our Functions teams enable our divisions to implement ground-breaking digital transformations and crucial defence software. As part of Functions, you will be supporting and partnering with our global business from the backline, being a strategic advisor within your specialist area, and ensuring the business runs smoothly and efficiently. We all have a role to play in defending our clients; and this is yours.
Dec 08, 2022
Full time
BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,800 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 16 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments. About The Team The AWS Product team manage the Digital Intelligence AWS infrastructure, which enables our globally-distributed software engineers. The team is responsible for delivering accounts/environments, as self-managed environments or managed-fabric services, and ensuring that the platform is continually developed to meet the evolving needs of the business and capabilities of the platform. We primarily follow an Infrastructure-as-Code deployment model and Agile delivery processes, for both operational management (including site reliability engineering) and new capability delivery. About The Role The AWS cloud engineer will work across our deployed AWS cloud technologies used to build up the services in scope for the AWS Infrastructure product team. This is a multi-functional role that works with a Product Team to deliver business value through a high quality product using optimised-flow delivery models based on Agile practices such as Scrum or Kanban. Primarily working with AWS cloud infrastructure technologies and day to day operational activities, the engineer will be responsible for the whole design responsibilities also exist within the role, under the supervision and direction of the AWS product architect. The key aspect of the role will be to endorse, support and maintain re-usable patterns that the team has already built and going to build, utilising infrastructure as code so that future deployments can be delivered through automation and code-reuse. Its an amazing time to join our team and you'll be supported by a experienced team of specialists in Engineering Operations, Scrum Masters and Information Security to build cloud agnostic patterns delivered through automation. As Cloud engineer , you will have deep understanding of the AWS infrastructure, its use-cases and how it brings benefits to the users of the service. He/she will live and breathe the Agile manifesto and will use, processes, tools and culture to continuously improve what they and how they work. You'll support a critical set of business activities in the cloud: Developing. Configuring, deploying and supporting our infrastructure services. Management of AWS specific services like AWS Accounts, AWS Organisations, VPC Management , CloudFormation, Security Hub , Route 53, Guardduty and Quicksight. Whilst there will be focus on working with our AWS platform the role will have responsibilities across our entire technology portfolio. Writing scripts in Python, Powershell, Terraform and other automation artefacts to enable future re-use , either within the same platform or other segregated platforms. Working on issues in Jira with rest of the team - building automation processes , creating CloudFormation/serverless templates to deploy strandard environments. Documentation of deployed systems, scripts and other working practices to enable, re-use and support users across the world. Support our engineering teams in their use and migration to public cloud platforms. Participation in our on-call rota to support our production systems. Adhere to IT security standards and regulation. Provide product and service direction to the Product Management team and implement these as part of the self-organising team. Review, establish and adhere to appropriate governance and configuration control. Driving issue resolution and resolve underpinning problems. Work with customers to introduce innovation and evolve the product, Work with suppliers, customer, team members and industry peers to continuously improve delivery. Document technical problems & resolutions into format that business can understand. Contribute to protecting the products from technical debt and process debt. A working foundation in process frameworks like, ITIL, Prince2 and Agile with experience in executing these in a highly automotive and high velocity output and consistently changing operational environment. Requirements Experience in managing a large multi-account AWS estate. Terraform, Python and Powershell scripting experince. Managing VPC, Cloudformation, CloudWatch, Route53, AWS Config and AWS Control Tower. Experince building standard AWS service for all business users. Experience with various DevOps tools and CI/CD tools like Git, BitBucket, Jenkins etc , Experience in AWS Security services and Network Services. A working foundation in process frameworks like, ITIL, Prince2 and Agile with experience in executing these in a highly automotive and high velocity output and consistently changing operational environment. Desireable AWS Certifications like - AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect -Associate/Professional Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day. By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we're working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being. Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds - the best and brightest minds - can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential. Division overview: Functions At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and the business could not operate without all the dedicated work of our Functions teams. From Finance & Operations through Communications & Marketing, to HR and Site Operations and more, our Functions teams enable our divisions to implement ground-breaking digital transformations and crucial defence software. As part of Functions, you will be supporting and partnering with our global business from the backline, being a strategic advisor within your specialist area, and ensuring the business runs smoothly and efficiently. We all have a role to play in defending our clients; and this is yours.