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Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-17 → 2026-08-10

Core

Lead the transition of experimental models into production-grade services, building the infrastructure for the ML lifecycle from automated training pipelines to real-time inference clusters.

Role type

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (MLOps & Systems)

Builds

Production ML services, automated training pipelines, real-time inference clusters, and secure APIs wrapping ML capabilities.

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, MLOps, AI systems engineering, FinOps

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Production-quality Python, CI/CD practices, REST API design, Cloud environment operations (AWS), Containerization (Docker), ML lifecycle management, Model observability, Cost optimization strategies

Preferred skills

AWS SageMaker, FastAPI, MLOps practices, Event-driven architectures, LLM/GenAI serving, RAG pipelines, Platform-level service design

Technologies

Python, AWS, Docker, FastAPI, SageMaker, CI/CD tools

Responsibilities

Design and own automated Continuous Training and deployment pipelines; Establish telemetry frameworks for model health and drift monitoring; Optimize cloud spend through auto-scaling and spot-instance usage; Integrate models into the product ecosystem via high-performance APIs; Manage versioning strategies for code, data, and model artifacts; Lead adoption of software engineering best practices including testing and code reviews

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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