Senior Machine Learning Engineer I

Butterworths Limited Company; Farringdon; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Wellbeing initiatives

Parental leave

Study assistance

Sabatticals

Country-specific benefits

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions’ AI Platform team seeks an engineer to research, design and deliver AI capabilities behind flagship analytics products. You will work across the full development lifecycle in a cloud-native environment, evaluating emerging technologies and building scalable services.

Join a collaborative, flexible team and help shape AI-powered IP tools for global innovation, mentoring juniors and contributing to Terraform-based infrastructure on AWS, with Python and

Qualifications

• Experience with modern Python codebases.
• Experience with AWS or comparable cloud platform, including infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Experience with generative AI and agentic AI systems.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage varied audiences.

Responsibilities

• Research and evaluate emerging AI technologies for use in customer-facing features.
• Design and build agentic AI systems and AI-powered product capabilities.
• Develop reusable frameworks for evaluating AI quality, safety and performance.
• Build scalable, high-performance and cost-efficient services.
• Work with technologies including Python, AWS (EKS, S3, RDS and Terraform), and AI/ML libraries such as pandas and FAISS.
• Mentor junior developers in engineering best practices, including test-driven development with pytest and idiomatic Python.
• Write and review detailed technical specifications for moderately complex system components.
• Participate actively in development processes, code reviews and Scrum ceremonies.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders across the organisation.

Skills

Python

AWS

Terraform

Generative AI

Agentic AI

Communication

Tools

Azure Pipelines

Terraform

FAISS

pandas

Job description

Are you excited by the opportunity to shape the future of AI-powered intellectual property tools in a collaborative, flexible environment? Join a dynamic team developing advanced AI solutions and analytics for impactful, global innovation projects.

About the team

At LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions, we bring clarity to innovation. Our products help the innovation community make better-informed decisions, work more productively, meet regulatory requirements and achieve stronger outcomes. Every day, our work supports the development of technologies and processes that advance industries—and, ultimately, society. We are proud to serve the innovators whose ideas help shape a better future.

The AI Platform team builds the capabilities that power AI across LexisNexis IP’s flagship analytics products. We explore emerging AI technologies and turn them into intelligent, practical features for our customers, alongside reusable tools and services for our internal platform. You will join a team working with modern, cloud-native infrastructure and play a meaningful role in building LexisNexis IP’s AI future.

About the role

Our IP analytics platform brings together highly curated, enriched datasets; sophisticated analytical tools; streamlined workflows; and powerful visualisations. It enables essential IP activities including competitive intelligence, benchmarking and portfolio optimisation—all in one place. As part of the AI Platform team, you will help research, design and deliver the AI capabilities behind these products. You will work across the full development lifecycle, from evaluating emerging technologies and designing agentic systems to building scalable, cost-efficient production services.

Responsibilities

• Research and evaluate emerging AI technologies for use in customer-facing features.
• Design and build agentic AI systems and AI-powered product capabilities.
• Develop reusable frameworks for evaluating AI quality, safety and performance.
• Build scalable, high-performance and cost-efficient services.
• Work with technologies including Python, AWS (EKS, S3, RDS and Terraform), and AI/ML and data-science libraries such as Google ADK, pandas and FAISS.
• Help develop and evolve AWS platform infrastructure using Terraform, including RDS instances and EKS clusters.
• Mentor junior developers in engineering best practices, including test-driven development with pytest and idiomatic Python.
• Write and review detailed technical specifications for moderately complex system components.
• Participate actively in development processes, code reviews and Scrum ceremonies.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders across the organisation.

Requirements

• Experience working with modern Python codebases.
• Experience with AWS or a comparable cloud platform, including infrastructure-as-code practices.
• A solid understanding of software engineering principles, techniques and delivery processes.
• Experience with generative AI and agentic AI systems.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage varied audiences.
• Experience with Azure Pipelines and Terraform is desirable, but not essential.

Benefits

• We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation.
• We offer an appealing working prospect for our people.
• With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
• Working flexible hours – flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.
• We are delighted to offer country specific benefits.

We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact 1-855-833-5120.

We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

USA Job Seekers: EEO Know Your Rights. LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. We help lawyers win cases, manage their work more efficiently, serve their clients better and grow their practices.

We assist corporations in better understanding their markets and preventing bribery and corruption within their supply chains. We partner with leading global associations and customers to help collect evidence against war criminals and provide tools to combat human trafficking. We endeavour to advance the rule of law across the world. Our teams are combining unparalleled legal and business information with analytics and technology to advance what’s possible for the way our customers work and to advance what’s possible in the world by strengthening the rule of law.