Senior AI Engineer

SearchWorks
Glasgow, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 125K

Job location

Remote
Glasgow, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence
Python
Performance Tuning
TensorFlow
Software Engineering
Systems Architecture
PyTorch
Large Language Models
Reliability of Systems
Machine Learning Operations

Job description

Senior / Staff AI Engineer (Python, ML Systems) - FULLY REMOTE

High-growth AI |

We're working with a well-funded, fast-scaling AI company building a highly ambitious product at enterprise scale. They're now looking to add Senior and Staff-level AI Engineers to help shape the next phase of their ML platform and establish strong technical leadership within the team.

This is a product engineering role (not consultancy, not internal tools) with a heavy focus on ML systems, model deployment, and production AI infrastructure.

What you'll be doing

  • Designing and building production ML systems and pipelines in Python
  • Architecting scalable inference infrastructure and model serving systems
  • Building robust MLOps tooling for training, evaluation, and deployment
  • Owning AI system reliability, performance optimization, and monitoring at scale
  • Acting as a technical leader within the AI engineering team, with a clear path to Staff / Tech Lead impact
  • Helping lay the foundations for significant product and engineering growth over the next 12-18 months

Requirements

  • Senior or Staff-level AI/ML engineer (roughly 10-12+ years' experience)
  • Expert Python skills with deep ML frameworks experience (PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar)
  • Proven experience running production ML systems at scale
  • Strong background in model deployment, MLOps, and ML system architecture
  • Experience with LLMs, transformers, or modern AI architectures
  • Comfortable making long-term technical decisions around ML infrastructure
  • Experience in regulated or enterprise AI environments is a plus
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals (not pure research)

Strong positive signals:

  • Solid tenures at companies running ML/AI at real scale
  • Clear career progression into senior AI technical responsibility
  • Background in production ML platforms or high-traffic AI products

Team & environment

  • Small, high-calibre engineering team (~8 engineers)
  • Fast-paced, high-ownership culture
  • Serious technical ambition - strong people to learn from, but expectations are high
  • Backed by recent oversubscribed funding and a very strong customer pipeline

Benefits & conditions

  • Senior: ~£100k-£125k
  • Staff: up to ~£130k (target level)
  • Meaningful equity at an early stage
  • Clear growth trajectory as the company scales toward Series A

If you're an AI engineer who thrives on turning models into products, building robust ML systems, and technical leadership, this is a rare opportunity to get in early and have genuine influence.

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