Senior Machine Learning Engineer
£55,000 - 65,000 GBP
Hybrid WORKING
Location: Central London, Greater London - United Kingdom Type: Permanent
Senior Machine Learning Engineer - National Security (London, Hybrid)
Salary: Up to £65,000 per year + £7,000 DV clearance bonus (tax-free, subject to eligibility)
Working Model: Hybrid - 3 days on client site once clearance is granted, 1 day in central office, remainder remote
A leading UK national security-focused technology organisation is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join its AI team. You will design, develop, and deploy ML models and LLM/GenAI solutions to solve real-world national security challenges. This is a highly innovative, collaborative, and impactful environment where you will apply cutting-edge machine learning methods to unique datasets.
Key responsibilities:
1. Lead and contribute to ML projects, including forecasting, classification, anomaly detection, and LLM/GenAI applications.
2. Design experiments, formulate hypotheses, evaluate results, and iterate rapidly to validate approaches.
3. Transition experimental models into production-ready solutions, collaborating with engineers on deployment, monitoring, and optimisation.
4. Build and maintain ML pipelines using AWS serv...