Onfido is hiring a
Senior Machine Learning Engineer in United Kingdom

Summary

The job is for a Machine Learning Engineer at Onfido, a global technology company that provides identity verification solutions. The role involves developing and deploying machine learning models for various tasks such as biometric verification, document classification, and fraud analysis. The company values trust, ownership, and diversity, and offers benefits like health insurance, retirement benefits, paid time off, remote work, bonuses, professional development opportunities, wellness programs, and family and parental leave.

Requirements

• Good knowledge and experience with Python
• Familiarity with scientific libraries and frameworks such as Numpy, Tensorflow, Keras, Scikit Learn, OpenCV, ONNX
• Interested in developing, deploying and monitoring production-facing machine learning systems
• Capable with testing frameworks, such as PyTest
• Experience with dependency management tools (e.g. Poetry)

Responsibilities

• Work in a cross-functional team to design, build, test and ship fraud-catching products
• Work closely with researchers to take research developed ML models to production
• Use off-the-shelf machine learning solution to provide simple initial solutions for fraud detection
• Design and implement efficient pre-processing steps around digital images or video files
• Extend existing ML pipeline to fit an increasing array of use cases
• Analyze algorithmic performances and identify common issues and potential improvements
• Provide technical guidance, support and advice to other engineers at Onfido

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with various different image and video file formats
• Understanding of Computer Vision and standard Machine Learning algorithms (like decision trees, neural networks, support vector machines, clustering,…)

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus a day off for your Birthday
• Two paid volunteering days per year.*
• Bupa Private Medical and Dental Insurance*
• Life Assurance (3x Annual Base Salary)*
• Pension with The People’s Pension (employer contribution 4% of base salary)*
• Generous paid parental leave
• Free mental health coaching provided online
• Life enrichment allowance of up to £80 per month to use for services including gym, yoga, fitness classes, massages, childcare, and therapy
• Dedicated learning opportunities including using tools like Learnerbly with availability  to use for learning resources such as books, coaches, conferences, courses, podcasts, and more
• Our open and transparent culture is reflected in our “Better Together” motto and we bring this to life by meeting once a week for our global weekly roundup (OnThursday); holding quarterly team socials, and other company-wide social events
• Expense up to £300 (or local equivalent) to purchase workstation setup equipment
• The opportunity to become a member of Onfido’s resource groups in order to learn different skills in our belonging groups