Hybrid AI/ML Engineer — Manchester, 6-Month Contract

Spencer Rose Ltd; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Spencer Rose Ltd is seeking an AI Machine Learning Engineer for a 6-month contract in Manchester, with hybrid work (2 days per week on-site). The role involves designing, building and deploying enterprise-scale AI solutions using LLMs, agentic AI, RAG, PyTorch and Kubernetes.

You will develop and optimise ML models in Python, create embedding and semantic pipelines, and deploy via Docker, Kubernetes and Vertex AI, following MLOps practices.

Qualifications

• Experience deploying ML/Generative AI solutions.
• Expertise in Python, PyTorch, LLMs and RAG architectures.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and cloud-based AI platforms.
• Strong understanding of MLOps, model monitoring, CI/CD and AI governance.

Responsibilities

• Design AI applications using LLMs, transformer models, RAG and Agentic AI patterns.
• Build AI agents with reasoning, memory, workflow orchestration and tool integration capabilities.
• Develop and optimise machine learning and deep learning models using Python and PyTorch.
• Create embedding, indexing and semantic retrieval pipelines to support enterprise knowledge solutions.
• Deploy and manage models using Docker, Kubernetes, KServe and Vertex AI.
• Build CI/CD, model training, monitoring and evaluation pipelines following MLOps best practices.
• Manage model versioning, registries and release processes in line with governance standards.
• Monitor model performance, drift, latency, fairness and service reliability.
• Optimise inference performance, scalability and cloud infrastructure costs.
• Support progressive deployment strategies including canary, shadow, blue/green releases and A/B testing.
• Collaborate with Product, Data Science, Platform, Security and Architecture teams to establish AI engineering standards.

Skills

ML & GenAI expertise

Python

PyTorch

Docker

Kubernetes

MLOps

CI/CD

Vertex AI

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Vertex AI

PyTorch

Job description

Spencer Rose Ltd is seeking an AI Machine Learning Engineer for a 6-month contract in Manchester, with hybrid work (2 days per week on-site). The role involves designing, building and deploying enterprise-scale AI solutions using LLMs, agentic AI, RAG, PyTorch and Kubernetes.

You will develop and optimise ML models in Python, create embedding and semantic pipelines, and deploy via Docker, Kubernetes and Vertex AI, following MLOps practices.