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# Lead Machine Learning Engineer - £575/day - Inside IR35 - Central London

- **Company:** RecOps
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £149,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Continuous Integration, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Search Technologies, Software Engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, Kubernetes, Pure Data, Machine Learning Operations, Api Design, Software Version Control, Docker
- **Published:** October 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/gb/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-C8F09C18ACFBFFEFF0/

## About the Role

* Strong commercial experience building, deploying and supporting machine learning systems in production.
 * Excellent Python, including Back End/API development, async programming and clean software engineering practices.
 * Recent hands-on experience building, deploying and supporting AI/ML systems in production.
 * Strong cloud infrastructure experience. Azure is preferred, but strong AWS/GCP experience is transferable.
 * Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, monitoring and production troubleshooting.
 * Experience with MLOps, model/version management and production life cycle management.
 * Good understanding of security, access controls, reliability and governance around AI/ML systems.
 * Experience with GenAI/RAG, vector search, evaluation and LLM reliability.
 * Lead-level experience setting technical direction while remaining hands-on.

This isn't a pure data science or prompt engineering role. The focus is on the engineering required to get AI/ML systems running reliably in production.