Junior Forward-Deployed AI Engineer (LLM/ML)

Junior Forward-Deployed AI Engineer (LLM/ML) At Silent Eight, we develop our own AI-based products to combat financial crimes that enable things like money laundering, the financing of terrorism, and systemic corruption. We’re a leading RegTech firm working with large international financial institutions such as Standard Chartered Bank and HSBC. Join us and help make the world a safer place! We solve hard, real‑world problems — from uncovering financial crime, fraud patterns and mule networks, through prioritising thousands of alerts, to crafting defendable case narratives. We work close to users (analysts, investigators, risk/compliance), iterate fast, and deliver in weeks, not quarters. The adversary adapts — this is an intelligence game, not an academic benchmark. The Role We’re looking for someone who solves business problems with technology. Less stack worship, more outcomes: fast risk identification, fewer false positives, faster time‑to‑decision, better explainability, and lower cost per case. Finance shows up often, but we think broader — investigations, decisions and client value across industries. What you’ll do • Go to the field: talk to users, shadow their workflows, capture the as‑is → goals & constraints. • Define hypotheses & KPIs (precision/recall, FPR, TAT, coverage, cost/decision) and turn them into experiment plans. • Design decision flows that mix LLMs, retrieval/RAG, classical ML, and lightweight rules; ensure explainability and auditability. • Build quick prototypes (notebook → lightweight service/API) and measure their impact on real data. • Create evaluation sets and scoring rubrics (offline + side‑by‑side + sanity checks + guardrails). • Present findings & recommendations directly to decision‑makers; propose rollout (pilot → production‑lite → scale). • Lead innovation processes across the company; test, promote solutions and mentor others with new AI technologies. Minimum Requirements • Problem‑solving & communication: you can break down fuzzy problems and explain risks to non‑technical stakeholders. • LLMs + ML in practice: RAG, prompting, tool‑calling; classification/ranking/deduplication; fundamentals of evaluation & experimentation. • Python + SQL sufficient to build a prototype that works and can be maintained. Nice to Have • A track record of delivery: 2–3 examples where your AI/ML solution materially improved process KPIs (any industry). • Experience with investigations / trust & safety / fraud / risk / audit or other complex decision processes. • Graphs/ER: entity resolution, link analysis, pattern‑of‑life. • Light engineering craft: FastAPI, Docker; the rest (K8s/CI/CD/Terraform) is not required. Our Tech (lightweight) We don’t fetishise the stack. Common tools: Python, SQL, notebooks/analysis tools, lightweight APIs (e.g., FastAPI), simple stores (e.g., Postgres), and vector indexes. We choose tools pragmatically — b usiness impact beats heavy infrastructure Note : we don’t expect mastery of “every” tool. What matters are strong fundamentals, curiosity, and a habit of delivering measurable outcomes . Department Technology Locations Poland Remote status Fully Remote Recruiters and Agencies - Please Read Our Culture You will be co-creating our business solutions We believe that your feedback allows us to create the best solutions as well as adjusted work culture. You will have a real impact on the growth of the company and the product we develop. Experienced team We aren’t your run-of-the-mill tech start-up. At Silent Eight, everyone is a leader in their own field with perspective and experience shared across teams and departments. Development-centric Because learning never ends, we empower our employees to invest in themselves. We provide a range of resources such as paid Development Days, in-house training, lunch-and-learns, etc. to make sure our employees are continuing to grow each day. Team building events We know that our success is only possible if we work together as a team. We are a group of passionate individuals united by a common mission. Therefore we like to meet together regularly to connect not just as coworkers, but as human beings, whether it’s at an offsite in Dubai or a weekly “Tea Time” to catch up. 100% remote work forever We are not new to working remotely. In fact, we’ve been doing it since 2013 and we know how to make you feel supported, connected, and included. We believe that the freedom to choose where you work from is important to finding the journey that is right for you. Don’t wait! Join our team today! Silent Eight is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or other classification protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Statement on Unsolicited Outreach by Recruitment Agencies Silent Eight Pte. Ltd. and its affiliates and subsidiaries (“Silent Eight”) have an internal recruiting team. Silent Eight may occasionally supplement our recruitment efforts with the assistance of staffing agencies, placement services, and professional recruiters (“Agency”). To protect the interests of all parties, Silent Eight will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. 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