NLP & LLM Engineer — Search & Retrieval at Scale (Hybrid)

Opus Recruitment Solutions

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 99,000 - 121,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday
Hybrid working model
Support for ongoing development

Job summary

Opus Recruitment Solutions is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer in London for a hybrid role, offering a salary of up to £110k. The engineer will help navigate and analyze complex legal text using advanced machine learning techniques.

The position involves optimizing search systems and improving data retrieval workflows. Candidates should have Python and NLP experience, with responsibilities including designing LLM-powered pipelines and contributing to scalable ML infrastructure.

Additional perks include 25 days of holiday and support for ongoing development.

Qualifications

  • Experience building and deploying ML systems in production.
  • Background in NLP and/or LLM-based applications.
  • Strong Python skills in a commercial environment.

Responsibilities

  • Improve relevance and ranking across large-scale search systems.
  • Design and optimize LLM-powered pipelines.
  • Work with hybrid and vector-based retrieval approaches.
  • Develop NLP components for structured and unstructured text.
  • Contribute to scalable ML infrastructure and cloud-based pipelines.

Skills

Python
NLP
LLM
Machine Learning
Elasticsearch
OpenSearch
PyTorch
Tensorflow
AWS

Job description

Opus Recruitment Solutions is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer in London for a hybrid role, offering a salary of up to £110k. The engineer will help navigate and analyze complex legal text using advanced machine learning techniques.

The position involves optimizing search systems and improving data retrieval workflows. Candidates should have Python and NLP experience, with responsibilities including designing LLM-powered pipelines and contributing to scalable ML infrastructure.

Additional perks include 25 days of holiday and support for ongoing development.

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