Junior Machine Learning Engineer
Contract | 6 months, view to extend | Remote (UK) | Active SC required | Start ASAP
The Role
A venture-backed UK AI business working in regulated and security-sensitive sectors is standing up a brand new modelling and optimisation capability, and needs a junior engineer to help build it.
You will spend your time writing code. The domain is physics-based performance modelling rather than LLM work, but the job is engineering: getting models out of notebooks and into something that runs reliably in production, alongside senior engineers who have done this before.
What You Will Be Doing
▪ Writing production code and taking models from prototype to running reliably against real data.
▪ Building and testing the pipelines and tooling the models run on.
▪ Building the ingestion and processing for physical, environmental and sensor data.
▪ Implementing the optimisation that turns model outputs into decisions.
▪ Benchmarking and validating your own work, since the outputs get independently checked.
What You Will Need
▪ Evidence you can build things. Code you have written yourself that someone else has run.
▪ Fluent scientific Python, particularly NumPy and SciPy.
▪ Proper engineering habits, testing your own work and using Git in a team.
▪ Enough mathematical grounding for the domain, from a physics, maths, engineering or statistics background, or from modelling and simulation work picked up elsewhere.
▪ Active SC clearance.
Useful but not essential: Docker, optimisation, time-series or signal processing, and any prior work in defence, government or another regulated environment.
Next Steps
Morela is proud to be supporting this search. Interviewing now.
For a confidential conversation, contact Adam Moore at (url removed).
Morela | AI & Engineering Recruitment Specialists | (url removed)
Salary description
£350.00 - £450.00 per day