Senior AI/ML Engineer - EdTech - Remote - ASR

Senior AI/ML Engineer is required by this leading EdTech business to lead a greenfield applied AI coaching capability. This hands-on, individual contributor role gives you full technical ownership over cutting-edge Speech Processing (ASR) and LLM integration, helping to transform early-years education worldwide. You'll form part of a team collaborating with engineering and product specialists. Key Responsibilities Speech Recognition Processing & ASR: Benchmark, select, and fine-tune open and commercial models Data Design: designing secure metadata tracking to prevent train/test leakage while managing compliance-driven data routing.

Own ASR and LLM coaching evaluation pipelines, monitoring for bias, accuracy drift, hallucination, and per-group regression. LLM Integration: Combine ASR output, assessment profiles, and session histories into practical, automated guidance for educators. Deploy models for live web/mobile inference, manage compute budgets, upskill engineering colleagues, and represent the firm's AI capability to external academic partners Ideally you can offer experience across - De ep expertise in ASR, fine-tuning, dialect adaptation, and phoneme-level techniques.

Experience integrating LLMs with structured data for personalised recommendations. Proven ability to build training/evaluation infrastructure that withstands scientific scrutiny. Strong commitment to privacy-by-design under strict data governance frameworks (UK GDPR, COPPA, FERPA). Please contact me for a full job spec and conversation about the business, their success to date and growth plans for their product line and how you can contribute.

Please note that whilst this role is remote there will be monthly meetings you'll be expected to attend and the client has requested that you are based in the UK.