AI Research Engineer

Arva AI
London
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 80,000 - 120,000 annuallyFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Experience: 3+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Ownership","Analytical thinking"]

Join our in-house AI team to build and evaluate large language models and agentic systems powering an AI-driven financial crime compliance platform. You’ll train, fine-tune, and benchmark models, develop end-to-end ML workflows, and implement MLOps with a focus on performance, explainability, and reliable production deployments in AML/due-diligence use cases.

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Arva AI
Arva AI
6 months ago

AI Research Engineer

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Job Summary

Join our in-house AI team to build and evaluate large language models and agentic systems powering an AI-driven financial crime compliance platform. You’ll train, fine-tune, and benchmark models, develop end-to-end ML workflows, and implement MLOps with a focus on performance, explainability, and reliable production deployments in AML/due-diligence use cases.
Location: London
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and iterate on in-house LLM and agentic capabilities, integrating them into product features with rigorous evaluation, benchmarking, and backtesting across real compliance workflows
  • •Design continuous-improvement loops for our models, leveraging human-in-the-loop feedback to drive dataset curation, fine-tuning/distillation, and optimisation of model behaviour
  • •Stay on the frontier and translate research into impact, applying new AI methods to improve model quality, explainability, latency, and production reliability
  • •Evals: Build benchmarks, evaluate backtests and analyse results to quantify performance and prevent regressions
  • •MLOps: Ensure good practices around collecting and managing datasets, backtests and benchmarks to maximise development velocity

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 80,000 - 120,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •3+ years in an AI research or engineering role with experience building and testing agentic systems
  • •Hands-on experience with prompt engineering, fine-tuning pre-trained models, and training custom models (including vision models)
  • •Experience with TypeScript is a plus
  • •Product-minded with ability to translate customer needs into AI solutions
  • •Strong collaboration and communication skills and ownership mindset
Experience:3+ yearsFintechAMLFinancial services
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingOwnershipAnalytical thinking
Tech Stack:LLMsVision modelsTypeScriptNLPPythonMLOpsDockerKubernetes

Company Brief

Arva AI
Develops AI-driven perception and autonomy software for commercial and industrial vehicles, enabling safe, efficient self-driving operations using sensor fusion, computer vision, and machine learning to automate logistics, last-mile delivery, and facility transport.
Industry: Autonomous Vehicles
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