Senior MLOps Engineer

• Must hold active clearance – SC or MoD DV
• Up to £95k DoE plus bonus
• 4 days on site in Brentford – future expensed travel to client site in Cambridge
• Strong experience across MLOps, ML infrastructure and production AI systems

We are recruiting a Senior AI/ML Engineer with strong MLOps and ML infrastructure experience for a highly technical AI organisation delivering advanced computer vision and machine learning technologies across Defence, Security and other high-performance environments.

You’ll work alongside AI researchers, software engineers and technical leadership to take cutting‑edge machine learning research from R&D through to reliable, production‑ready systems. The role offers the opportunity to work on challenging AI applications deployed across both large‑scale cloud environments and edge platforms.

You will design, build and maintain the infrastructure that powers advanced AI systems from research through to production. You’ll develop distributed training pipelines, build ML lifecycle infrastructure, optimise models for deployment and support reliable AI systems across cloud and edge environments.

• Strong Python/PyTorch and ML infrastructure experience
• Experience with distributed ML training using Ray, Deep Speed or PyTorch Lightning
• Strong MLflow, model registry and ML lifecycle experience
• Experience with TensorRT, ONNX, quantisation and model deployment
• Strong Docker, CI/CD and Git Hub Actions experience
• Experience with Prometheus/Grafana monitoring and production observability
• Cloud/edge AI deployment, with NVIDIA Jetson/Deep Stream highly desirable
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Metaflow and Kafka advantageous
• Computer vision, aerial/satellite/ISR experience highly beneficial

MLOps / MLOps Engineer / ML Infrastructure / ML Platform / AI Engineer / Machine Learning / ML / Python / PyTorch / Ray / Deep Speed / PyTorch Lightning / MLflow / TensorRT / ONNX / Docker / Kubernetes / CI/CD / Git Hub Actions / Prometheus / Grafana / Metaflow / Kafka / NVIDIA Jetson / Deep Stream / Edge AI / Computer Vision / Deep Learning