SC Cleared Machine Learning Engineer - Contract
Rate: Up to £620 per day (Inside IR35)
Location: London or Manchester (1-2 days per week on-site)
Contract: 6 months
Clearance: Active SC required
We're hiring an experienced SC-cleared Machine Learning Engineer to support the delivery of a high-profile central government programme. This role focuses on designing, building, and deploying scalable machine learning solutions to enable advanced analytics, automation, and decision-making across complex government systems.
This is a hands-on engineering role, working closely with data scientists, analysts, architects, and product teams to productionise models, build data pipelines, and embed ML capabilities into live services.
Key Requirements
1. Active Security Clearance (SC) - must be current and transferable
2. Proven experience as a Machine Learning Engineer within central government or regulated environments
3. Strong programming skills in Python (eg Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch)
4. Experience building and deploying ML models into production environments
5. Strong knowledge of cloud platforms, particularly:
* Azure (ML Studio, Azure ML, Data Factory, Synapse)
* Experience in AWS environments is beneficial
6. Experience with MLOps practices and tools (CI/CD pipeli...