Security ML Research Engineer – LLMs & Secure Environments

Ncounter Technology Recruitment; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Ncounter Technology Recruitment is helping a growing technology consultancy hire an ML Research Engineer to work on secure government programmes in Manchester. The role combines hands‑on engineering with research into LLM security and behaviour, using Python to translate ideas from academic work into practical experiments.

You will explore how models operate internally, ship production‑quality Python code, and collaborate across ML engineering tasks in a hybrid environment with some on‑site time

Qualifications

• Active SC clearance required.
• Hands-on Python development experience.
• Strong ML/DNN fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Develop production-quality ML components in Python.
• Conduct testing, documentation, and code reviews.

Skills

Python

Machine learning

Deep neural networks

Security clearance

Job description

Ncounter Technology Recruitment is helping a growing technology consultancy hire an ML Research Engineer to work on secure government programmes in Manchester. The role combines hands‑on engineering with research into LLM security and behaviour, using Python to translate ideas from academic work into practical experiments.

You will explore how models operate internally, ship production‑quality Python code, and collaborate across ML engineering tasks in a hybrid environment with some on‑site time