AI/ML Platform Engineer for Pharma & Bioinformatics

Nicoll Curtin Technology; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global IT consultancy seeks an experienced AI/ML Engineer to transform research-driven ML prototypes into scalable platforms. The role requires extensive experience in pharma, biotech, or life sciences, and involves collaboration with scientists to build and optimize ML workflows. The contract is Inside IR35, requiring 3 days onsite in King’s Cross, London. The day rate is flexible depending on experience. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of ML engineering and scientific research.

Qualifications

• Real experience in pharma, biotech, life sciences, or bioinformatics.
• Strong deployment experience on AWS and Azure.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale scientific datasets.

Responsibilities

• Convert scientific experiments into ML pipelines.
• Containerise and deploy ML models.
• Work with complex scientific datasets.
• Build automated ML workflows.
• Implement MLOps best practices.
• Collaborate with domain scientists.
• Contribute to core scientific AI platforms.

Skills

Production-level Python

Modern ML tooling (e.g., Databricks, Ray)

AWS deployment

Azure deployment

Large-scale scientific datasets

CI/CD

Git

Testing

Containers

Tools

Databricks

Kubernetes

AWS SageMaker

Azure ML

Job description

A global IT consultancy seeks an experienced AI/ML Engineer to transform research-driven ML prototypes into scalable platforms. The role requires extensive experience in pharma, biotech, or life sciences, and involves collaboration with scientists to build and optimize ML workflows. The contract is Inside IR35, requiring 3 days onsite in King’s Cross, London. The day rate is flexible depending on experience. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of ML engineering and scientific research.