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Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Hybrid

London, United kingdom

Senior

Freelance

15-10-2025

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Skills

Communication Python CI/CD Architecture Machine Learning PyTorch TensorFlow Databases git Azure AWS cloud platforms Langchain Terraform

Job Specifications

Lead Machine Learning / Founding Machine Learning Engineer

Outside IR35

Global well established organisation with a mission to deliver advanced AI capabilities.

About the Role

Lucrative Contract hands-on AI Engineer at Principal/Staff level to build and to deliver an AI capability.

Responsibilities

Reporting to VP Engineering
Lead design, architecture, and delivery of advanced AI/ML and generative AI solutions, ensuring scalable, secure, and production-ready system.
Expert in MCP and RAG patterns
Design and build robust data and ingestion pipelines, integrate vector databases, and RSG.
Expert-level proficiency in Python and key ML libraries (Langchain, Semantic Kernel, PyTorch, TensorFlow)
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, ECS)
Strong background in deploying models via APIs, containers, or cloud-native services
Proven track record delivering production-grade AI solutions in complex, data-rich environments
Skilled in setting team engineering practices: Git, CI/CD, automated testing for ML code, code reviews, and documentation.
Lead tech enablement and mentor engineers, fostering culture of reliability, continuous improvement, and collaboration.
Excellent communication skills, able to translate technical strategy into business outcomes and work across team.
Minimum 5 years' professional experience in AI, ML, or applied machine learning engineering roles.

Required Skills

Expert-level proficiency in Python and key ML libraries (Langchain, Semantic Kernel, PyTorch, TensorFlow)
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, ECS)
Strong background in deploying models via APIs, containers, or cloud-native services
Skilled in setting team engineering practices: Git, CI/CD, automated testing for ML code, code reviews, and documentation.

Preferred Skills

Expert in MCP and RAG patterns
Proven track record delivering production-grade AI solutions in complex, data-rich environments
Excellent communication skills, able to translate technical strategy into business outcomes and work across team.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are committed to diversity and inclusivity in our hiring practices.

Send us your cv now for interviews happening w/c 20th October. 2 stage interview process that will move quickly to have you in place this month.

About the Company

We operate across the US and UK markets and describe ourselves as a technology driven talent solutions company. We are dedicated to finding superlative people who are in tune with your markets and the culture of your organisation. Our team has extensive experience gained in all areas of the talent life cycle, which means we bring real value to representing the client, the candidate and global talent leadership alike. With our deep understanding of technology markets and the demands of senior level appointments and AI and... Know more