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Model Compression Engineer
Makes large AI models smaller and faster without losing performance
£60k–£115k Cost-driven
What it involves
Applies pruning, quantisation, distillation and architecture search to shrink AI models so they run affordably on constrained hardware.
Skills & knowledge needed
Model quantisationKnowledge distillationPruningBenchmarkingPyTorch
Why it's emerging now
Running large AI models is expensive — compression cuts inference costs by 10–100×.
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