Machine Learning Engineer

Southern Manufacturing & Electronics 2025; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern Manufacturing & Electronics 2025 is seeking an ML Engineer to build a new class of foundation models tailored for manufacturing.

You will tackle challenges like causal explanations and data-efficient learning, while ensuring real-time performance on limited hardware.

The role spans applications from beer bottles to aerospace components, blending innovation with practical engineering.

Responsibilities

• Real-time ML systems that run on low compute resources.
• Apply models across diverse manufacturing domains, from beer bottling to aerospace components.

Job description

We’re looking for an ML Engineer to join us in creating a brand-new class of foundation models designed specifically for manufacturing. You’ll get to tackle exciting challenges like:

• Inventing new capabilities, such as building models that understand causality – not just predicting what went wrong, but explaining why (e.g., “The temperature here was too high, mate. Lower it in this spot and you’re sorted!”).


• Boosting data efficiency and robustness to achieve top-notch accuracy with minimal data. Think teaching our models to learn from a handful of examples and transfer their smarts from one manufacturing setup to another like seasoned pros.

Oh, and here’s the kicker: all of this needs to work in real-time and run on low compute systems. To give you an idea of the variety you’ll be diving into, one day you might be monitoring beer bottles, and the next, solving challenges with aerospace components. It’s a proper mix making life fun!