Machine Learning Engineer

Understanding Recruitment · Hertfordshire

Machine Learning Engineer at Understanding Recruitment, based in Hertfordshire. This is a permanent role with remote working.

Salary
Competitive
Location
Hertfordshire · Remote
Contract
Permanent
Posted
8 hours ago
Closes
3 Nov 2026
Sector
Data Analyst

Reference LB740

About the role

Machine Learning Engineer


If you’re an ML Engineer who enjoys shipping and running AI systems in production more than spending your days experimenting with models, this could be a very good fit.


What’s in it for you?

  • Work on AI and LLM systems that are genuinely running in production
  • Own problems across development, infrastructure and deployment, rather than being boxed into one area
  • Build with modern GenAI technologies including RAG, agentic AI and LLMs
  • Significant exposure to AWS architecture, MLOps, CI/CD and observability
  • Freedom to improve how AI services are deployed, monitored and scaled
  • Opportunity to take increasing technical ownership and potentially step into a Senior/Lead role
  • Remote working with the option to spend time in the office


What you’ll be working on

  • Building and operating production AI/LLM services
  • Designing and scaling cloud infrastructure in AWS
  • Improving CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code and automated deployments
  • Developing and debugging Python services using tools such as FastAPI and Pydantic
  • Building production RAG pipelines, including embeddings, indexing, retrieval and reranking
  • Implementing monitoring, tracing and observability across AI services
  • Improving system reliability, performance, compute efficiency and cost
  • Owning technical problems from development and staging through to production


What we’re looking for

You’ll ideally have 4+ years of relevant engineering experience, although depth of experience matters more than an exact number.


The strongest fit will be someone with:

  • A background in ML Engineering, MLOps, Platform Engineering or Software Engineering
  • Strong Python development experience
  • Hands-on experience building and operating systems in AWS
  • Experience deploying and maintaining production ML or AI services
  • Good understanding of CI/CD, containers and infrastructure-as-code
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, CloudWatch, Langfuse or similar
  • Some practical exposure to LLMs, RAG, NLP or generative AI
  • The confidence to take ownership of production systems and help guide other engineers

Reference: LB740 · Posted 8 hours ago · Closes 3 Nov 2026 · Listed via Understanding Recruitment

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