Remote Production ML & AI Systems Engineer

Understanding Recruitment Ltd; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Understanding Recruitment Ltd is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer focused on Production AI and LLM systems. You will build, deploy and scale production-grade AI services while owning the end-to-end lifecycle from Python development to AWS deployment.

You will work across ML engineering, backend software engineering and cloud infrastructure to deliver reliable, observable, and cost-efficient systems. This role offers hybrid flexibility and opportunities to influence technical decisions and

Qualifications

• 4+ years in production ML/AI or related engineering.
• Strong Python engineering skills with production services experience.
• Experience deploying, monitoring and maintaining production ML/AI systems.
• Exposure to LLMs, RAG or GenAI applications.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy and scale production AI/LLM systems.
• Own the full engineering lifecycle from development through to deployment on AWS.
• Collaborate across ML Engineering, Software Engineering and Cloud Infrastructure to deliver reliable services.
• Drive reliability, observability, performance and cost efficiency across systems.

Skills

Python engineering

AWS

CI/CD

FastAPI

Cloud infrastructure

Production ML/AI systems

LLMs/GenAI

End-to-end ownership

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Understanding Recruitment Ltd is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer focused on Production AI and LLM systems. You will build, deploy and scale production-grade AI services while owning the end-to-end lifecycle from Python development to AWS deployment.

You will work across ML engineering, backend software engineering and cloud infrastructure to deliver reliable, observable, and cost-efficient systems. This role offers hybrid flexibility and opportunities to influence technical decisions and