The Applied Language Systems Lab is a research group within a UK university's Department of Computer Science. Our group has five faculty members, fourteen PhD students, and three postdoctoral researchers. Our work focuses on domain-specific language model adaptation: how pre-trained LLMs can be reliably fine-tuned, evaluated, and deployed in high-stakes domains — currently legal, medical, and regulatory compliance. We have recently established a spin-out company to commercialise the most mature strand of this research, focusing on LLM-based document review and compliance checking for financial services and legal firms. The spin-out has two pilot customers, a pre-seed raise, and the ambition to grow into a serious product company. We are hiring a Research ML Engineer who will sit formally within the lab but whose primary focus is on the engineering work that supports the spin-out. This means building the infrastructure to fine-tune and evaluate models at the scale the product requires, and working closely with our researchers to turn research outputs into something a customer can use. The role starts as a 12-month contract. Subject to the spin-out's fundraising trajectory and the individual's interest, we expect to offer a permanent position within the spin-out at the end of the initial term.