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Delivery Engineering Manager
£50,000 - 80,000
Cervox.ai
Shrubbs Hill Lane, Cambridge
£50,000 - 80,000
Requirements
Must:
- Deep experience in software delivery management, technical program management, or engineering operations.
- Expertise in running agile sprints, managing releases, and enforcing execution discipline.
- Strong ability to translate abstract research work into production-ready pipelines.
- Strong systems thinking across ML/AI workflows, backend engineering, and productionisation.
- Exceptional communication and organisational leadership skills.
- Familiarity with ML development workflows, data pipelines, or ML Ops.
- Understanding of cloud deployments (AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Knowledge of versioning, testing frameworks, and monitoring tools.
- Basic understanding of LLMs, embeddings, vector stores, or model-serving environments.
- Experience in a research-heavy or early-stage tech team that ships quickly.
Responsibilities
- Establish a weekly release cycle with clear acceptance criteria and production readiness checks.
- Run daily standups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retros, and blocker escalation.
- Ensure every engineer is prepared for releases and working toward measurable commitments.
- Break down ambiguous research tasks into concrete, shippable engineering deliverables.
- Enforce engineering workflows (Jira/Linear, documentation, testing, monitoring).
- Build a culture of urgency, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Coordinate across engineering, research, product, and founders—ensure alignment and speed.
- Prepare weekly demo-ready builds for internal and external stakeholders.
- Prepare, lead, and support customer-facing meetings (government, regulators, industry partners).
- Translate customer needs into actionable engineering tasks and sprint goals.
- Ensure the team delivers demo-ready builds and reliable prototypes for external reviews.
- Manage expectations, provide updates, and ensure high standards in all customer interactions.
- Act as the bridge between technical teams and external stakeholders, ensuring clarity, alignment, and trust.
- Translate the core CerVox principles into actionable engineering tasks.
- Ensure systems are productionised with real users and real data.
- Set and enforce quality standards for shipping reliable AI/ML-based systems.
- Conduct weekly 1:1s with engineers.
- Hold team members accountable to deadlines and quality.
- Identify procrastination, blockers, or low standards—and intervene early and decisively.
- Foster a culture of high trust, high transparency, and high performance.
Description
At CerVox, we are building foundational truth infrastructure for governments, regulators, and institutions in an age of accelerated AI-generated information. Our AI systems are designed to detect linguistic drift, surface mutations, and anchor information to verified corpora. We are in a critical transition from research prototypes to weekly, production-grade releases and are looking for a Delivery Engineering Manager to lead this transformation. Our team thrives in fast-paced, early-stage environments, and we offer an opportunity to make a real impact in an in-person setting at the Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Labs in Cambridge.
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