About 9fin
9fin is the AI platform powering global debt markets — the world's largest asset class at over $145 trillion. Debt markets are vast, global, and mission-critical, yet still run on fragmented data, PDFs, and manual workflows. 9fin replaces this broken infrastructure with a single platform that centralises proprietary credit data, deep analysis, and high-value workflows across global markets. Today, 9fin powers teams at 300+ blue-chip institutions worldwide, including global banks, asset managers, private equity firms, law firms, and advisors. The business is scaling at exceptional speed, with rapid expansion in the US and best-in-class retention driven by deep workflow adoption. 9fin is at a defining inflection point, accelerating toward becoming the category-defining platform for debt markets worldwide.
Role
The Data Science team is growing at 9fin! We are doing world-class work with groundbreaking technologies to build data-driven products using machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, speech and audio, and knowledge/data mining. We are looking for an AI Engineer to accelerate our application of AI across teams and products. You will get to build large-scale AI powered systems, learn and apply the latest techniques, and work alongside other great researchers and engineers.
Responsibilities
•Design and build generative AI applications tailored to complex financial and legal workflows, leveraging state-of-the-art models to deliver innovative, practical solutions that streamline decision-making and unlock new efficiencies.
•Drive end to end model development lifecycle, leading the team in best practices, ensuring reproducible research and well managed model delivery/deployment.
•Collaborate cross functionally to share diverse ideas, understand business problems, and elevate/mentor your teammates.
•Translate complex problems into well-defined scoped bets in an internal startup style environment, dynamic and fast-paced.
•Learn and apply ground-breaking research and approaches in advanced topics, iterating improvements with a fail fast mentality.
•Be a proactive sharer of compelling ideas/work to the rest of the team and organisation.
•Help lead/push the adoption of AI throughout 9fin.
Requirements
•Strong proficiency in Python for production ready delivery.
•Expert in any of the following areas - deep expertise in one and familiarity with others is ideal:
•Information Retrieval: chunking strategies, (finetuning) embedding models, training re-rankers.
•Entity/relationship extraction/resolution.
•Knowledge Graphs; building and inference, graphRAG.
•Recommendation systems and ranking: personalisation, learning-to-rank, feed ranking, user modelling, etc.
•Tabular ML: feature engineering, structured data modelling (GBDTs, etc.)
•Statistical & Predictive Modelling: supervised ML, anomaly detection, temporal modelling, etc.
•Deep understanding of the GenAI landscape and agentic frameworks.
•Experience working in the full model lifecycle (including experimentation, training, testing, monitoring, and deployment).
•Data centric mindset and love for evals.
•Strong product focus with a desire to understand the end-to-end impact of your solutions for end users.
•Good knowledge of AWS's AI infrastructure.
Benefits & Conditions
Financial & Insurance
•Competitive Salary (salary bands benchmarked at the top end of the market)
•Pension (minimum contributions are 4% with 9fin matching up to 7%)
•Private Medical Insurance
•Paid sick leave with Income Protection for long periods of illness
•Group Life Assurance
•Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes
Time off
•25 holiday days per year
•Local public holidays (with the ability to exchange them for alternative days)
•Hybrid working model, to allow flexibility to decide how, where and when you do your best work
•Work abroad for up to 3 months a year
•1 month paid sabbatical after 5 years of service
•Enhanced parental leave & flexible working arrangements available
Training & Culture
•Professional learning and development budget
•AI experimentation budget of £800 (UK) per employee to trial AI tools
•Quarterly team socials
•Summer and Winter company social events
Hybrid Policy
9fin is a hybrid company, and the office is a regular part of how we work. From January 2027, all employees will work from their designated 9fin office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Some teams may be asked to be in the office more often, where the nature of their work calls for it. For the rest of the week, you may work from wherever works best for you and your team. Your Talent Partner will share hybrid working details for this role.
