Senior Face Recognition Engineer — Production CV & Edge Deployment

NearTech Search; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NearTech Search is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to own a production-grade facial recognition and Computer Vision platform, from model development through deployment on NVIDIA edge hardware.

The role focuses on real-world deployment across detection, alignment, embeddings, and matching, balancing accuracy with performance. You will lead design and evaluation, collaborating with legal and data protection teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production Computer Vision / ML experience.
• Experience deploying facial recognition systems using learned embeddings.
• Proficiency with PyTorch and ONNX/TensorRT for production deployment.
• Hands-on NVIDIA GPU, CUDA and inference optimisation.
• Experience with Docker, Linux, Git and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Build the full face recognition pipeline: detection, landmarks, alignment, embeddings, and matching.
• Train, fine-tune and evaluate embedding models.
• Develop evaluation frameworks for 1:1 verification and 1:N identification.
• Deploy and optimise models on NVIDIA edge GPUs.
• Work with NVIDIA DeepStream to maximise real-time video processing.
• Review and mentor mid-level engineers.

Skills

Computer Vision

Machine Learning

Facial Recognition

Python

C++

PyTorch

ONNX/TensorRT

NVIDIA GPUs

Docker

Linux

Git

CI/CD

Tools

DeepStream

CUDA

EDGE deployment

Job description

NearTech Search is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to own a production-grade facial recognition and Computer Vision platform, from model development through deployment on NVIDIA edge hardware.

The role focuses on real-world deployment across detection, alignment, embeddings, and matching, balancing accuracy with performance. You will lead design and evaluation, collaborating with legal and data protection teams.