Craft Lead, ML Engineering & Edge AI

Rowden Technologies; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid working

Disability Confident Committed company

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Rowden Technologies, based in Bristol, is building a UK engineering powerhouse focused on sensing, AI, and edge deployments for critical security applications. We are expanding our ML team, blending applied R&D with deployment across edge and embedded systems.

The Craft Lead will guide the ML engineers, ensure high-quality craft, and spend ~70% on hands-on ML while dedicating ~30% to team leadership. DV clearance is required; 3 days on-site in Bristol HQ with some travel may be expected.

Qualifications

• Experience leading ML teams delivering real-world ML systems.
• Hands-on ML engineering experience in Python.
• Strong software engineering practices: testing, reproducibility, documentation.
• Ability to hire, mentor and grow engineers across multiple projects.
• Excellent communication bridging technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop your ML team, setting objectives and progression paths.
• Define and uphold ML engineering standards across code quality and evaluation.
• Shape how the team plans, reviews, shares knowledge and ships work.
• Grow the craft through mentoring and introducing best practices.
• Hire and allocate the right people to projects while staying hands-on ~70%.

Skills

People leadership

ML engineering

Python

Code quality

Communication

Education: MSc

Education

MSc or equivalent experience

Tools

Databricks

AWS

GCP

GitHub

Docker/Kubernetes

MLflow

Jira

Job description

Rowden Technologies, based in Bristol, is building a UK engineering powerhouse focused on sensing, AI, and edge deployments for critical security applications. We are expanding our ML team, blending applied R&D with deployment across edge and embedded systems.

The Craft Lead will guide the ML engineers, ensure high-quality craft, and spend ~70% on hands-on ML while dedicating ~30% to team leadership. DV clearance is required; 3 days on-site in Bristol HQ with some travel may be expected.