Edge ML Engineer: Mid to Principal

Rowden; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Rowden in Bristol, UK, seeks a mid to principal ML Engineer to build and deploy AI systems across edge and embedded environments. The role collaborates with software, hardware and systems teams to deliver real-world impact. Hybrid work with on-site presence at Bristol HQ is required.

SC clearance eligibility is a must; salary is tailored by role scope. The team focuses on sensing, AI, and communications for defense and national security, with a strong emphasis on production-grade ML, model

Qualifications

• Experience building, training, evaluating, or deploying ML systems in real-world use cases.
• Strong ML/DL grounding and ability to reason about trade-offs in production.
• Excellent Python software development habits: version control, testing, code review, debugging.
• Proven ability to mentor or influence across teams.
• Bias to action, ownership over outcomes, and comfort with ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Own and ship ML in production, including edge/embedded deployments.
• Train and adapt models for real-world use cases.
• Scale training and inference workloads across GPUs and nodes.
• Improve performance of ML systems across data pipelines and infra.
• Design evaluation pipelines, benchmarks and feedback loops for model behavior.
• End-to-end ownership from data curation to deployment and monitoring.
• Implement MLOps/LLMOps practices: CI/CD, containerisation, experiment tracking.
• Collaborate with software, systems and product teams.

Skills

Proven delivery

ML/DL fundamentals

Python programming

Communication

Ownership mindset

Education

Bachelor-level degree in ML/CS/Engineering

PhD in AI/ML/CS (desirable)

Tools

Databricks

Apache Spark

Delta Lake

MLflow

SQL

Docker/Kubernetes

PyTorch

Job description

Rowden in Bristol, UK, seeks a mid to principal ML Engineer to build and deploy AI systems across edge and embedded environments. The role collaborates with software, hardware and systems teams to deliver real-world impact. Hybrid work with on-site presence at Bristol HQ is required.

SC clearance eligibility is a must; salary is tailored by role scope. The team focuses on sensing, AI, and communications for defense and national security, with a strong emphasis on production-grade ML, model