National Security ML Engineer - SC Clearance, Hybrid

Forward Role; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Forward Role is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer (National Security) to join specialist teams delivering ML from research to production in secure UK environments.

You'll work across Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow, MLOps, AWS, Docker, and CI/CD, translating research into real-world customer solutions while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and maintaining SC/DV/eDV clearance as appropriate.

Qualifications

• Experience with Python and ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow or scikit-learn).
• Familiarity with ML research, rapid prototyping and deployment
• Experience with MLOps, production ML pipelines and monitoring

Responsibilities

• Develop and iterate ML models from research to production in national security contexts.
• Experiment with LLMs, RAG, agents, fine-tuning and evaluation.
• Build and maintain production ML pipelines with MLflow, DVC or Weights & Biases.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

scikit-learn

LLMs

RAG

fine-tuning

MLOps

MLflow

DVC

Weights & Biases

AWS

Docker

Linux

CI/CD

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

scikit-learn

MLflow

DVC

Weights & Biases

AWS

Docker

Linux

CI/CD

Job description

Forward Role is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer (National Security) to join specialist teams delivering ML from research to production in secure UK environments.

You'll work across Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow, MLOps, AWS, Docker, and CI/CD, translating research into real-world customer solutions while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and maintaining SC/DV/eDV clearance as appropriate.