ML Engineering Manager: Production AI Systems

Compare The Market; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Compare the Market is seeking a Machine Learning Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team building production ML systems in a hybrid London setting. You will own real-time inference APIs, batch data products, and AI-enabled solutions, working closely with data, product, and engineering peers.

The role requires proven leadership of ML/AI production systems, strong Python skills, and experience with IaC and CI/CD. Join us to drive impactful outcomes for millions of customers.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams focused on machine learning, ML platforms and AI systems.
• Proven track record deploying and managing ML and AI systems in production at scale.
• Strong Python and ML engineering fundamentals.
• Understanding of infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD for ML systems (Terraform, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
• Clear communication: able to make technical work legible to commercial and product audiences.
• Experience working in agile environments with clear accountability to delivery.
• A degree in a quantitative discipline, or equivalent experience with production ML and AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop ML engineering teams delivering robust production systems including real-time inference APIs and LLM-based solutions.
• Collaborate with data scientists to move prototypes into production while maintaining quality and scalability.
• Drive team planning, estimation, and sprint delivery to ensure timely, high-standard results.
• Ensure every shipped system ties to measurable business outcomes and supports continuous improvement.
• Contribute to platform direction and shared tooling across the data & AI solutions group.

Skills

ML leadership

Python

ML production

Agile delivery

Communication

Mentoring

Production monitoring

Education

Degree in quantitative discipline

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

LangChain

LangGraph

Job description

Compare the Market is seeking a Machine Learning Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team building production ML systems in a hybrid London setting. You will own real-time inference APIs, batch data products, and AI-enabled solutions, working closely with data, product, and engineering peers.

The role requires proven leadership of ML/AI production systems, strong Python skills, and experience with IaC and CI/CD. Join us to drive impactful outcomes for millions of customers.