Senior Machine Learning Engineer

C&d Talent Advisory
Leeds, United Kingdom
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 78K

Job location

Remote
Leeds, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Azure
Cloud Computing
Continuous Integration
Python
Machine Learning
NoSQL
Open Source Technology
Operational Databases
Azure
Software Engineering
SQL Databases
Data Streaming
Data Processing
Delivery Pipeline
Build Management
Containerization
Machine Learning Operations
Data Pipelines
Docker

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Production AI Systems) to build, deploy, and operate production-grade machine learning systems that detect and counter disinformation at scale.

This is a hands-on engineering role spanning the entire ML lifecycle, from data pipelines and model development through deployment, monitoring, and continuous optimisation. You'll work closely with software engineers, ML engineers, and intelligence specialists to deliver reliable AI systems used in real-world environments.

If you enjoy building production AI systems, taking ownership, and solving challenging engineering problems, we'd love to hear from you., * Build and deploy production-ready machine learning systems

  • Design, train, evaluate, and optimise ML models
  • Continuously monitor and improve model performance
  • Own the complete ML lifecycle from development to production

Data & Infrastructure;

  • Build scalable batch and streaming data pipelines
  • Work with SQL and NoSQL databases
  • Develop containerised ML services using Docker
  • Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows

Engineering & Collaboration;

  • Design reliable, scalable ML infrastructure
  • Work across software engineering, ML, and intelligence teams
  • Optimise systems for performance, scalability, and reliability
  • Balance latency, accuracy, and infrastructure costs

Requirements

  • Proven experience building production machine learning systems

  • Strong Python engineering skills

  • End-to-end ML lifecycle experience

  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases

  • Experience with streaming and batch data processing

  • Docker and containerisation experience

  • Hands-on CI/CD experience

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals

  • Excellent problem-solving and systems thinking

  • High ownership and ability to work independently

  • Existing UK work authorization

  • Startup or early-stage company experience

  • Experience building AI products from concept to production

  • Cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

  • Experience with large-scale distributed ML systems

  • Personal ML or open-source projects

  • Experience in cybersecurity, misinformation detection, or intelligence systems

Benefits & conditions

  • Competitive salary
  • Early-stage equity (Share Options)
  • Fully remote working across Europe
  • Flexible, outcomes-driven culture
  • 25 days annual leave plus your birthday off
  • Private pension contributions
  • High ownership from day one
  • Opportunity to build AI systems tackling one of today's most important global challenges

If you're excited about building production machine learning systems that make a real-world impact, we'd love to hear from you...

About the company

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