Senior ML Engineer & AI Team Lead – Defence

Neptune North Ltd.; Newcastle upon Tyne; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Matching pension up to 6%

Private health insurance (Bupa)

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

Neptune North is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to deliver machine learning applications for defence and to provide technical oversight to a growing team in Newcastle upon Tyne.

You will lead ML projects across unstructured data, time series and deployment, mentor engineers, and help shape winning bids while collaborating with clients. A strong maths/statistics background and hands-on PyTorch/TensorFlow experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years employment experience delivering and/or overseeing AI/machine learning projects.
• Experience across multiple areas of ML, such as unstructured data, time series forecasting, reinforcement learning, few shot.
• Strong grounding in the maths and statistics behind machine learning.
• Hands on experience training, evaluating and tuning deep learning models using frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Experience taking models from experimentation into production, including deployment and retraining.
• Experience optimising models for constrained hardware: edge, embedded or very low power devices.
• Knowledge of model explainability, AI safety, AI security or fairness.

Responsibilities

• Influence the technical direction and play a key role in strengthening Neptune North’s machine learning and data science capabilities.
• Provide leadership/hands-on delivery in a wide range of machine learning and AI projects.
• Work directly with clients to shape requirements, manage expectations, and to build trust.
• Contribute to winning work by helping to write compelling bids and high-quality technical proposals.
• Advocate knowledge sharing across the team and identify opportunities for reuse of capabilities.
• Regularly provide career and technical mentorship to other engineers to build a high calibre team.
• Demonstrate flexibility in taking on work aligned to evolving company priorities.

Skills

Python

Machine Learning

Communication

PyTorch

Education

First-class degree in Computer Science/Math/AI/Data-related

Tools

TensorFlow

Job description

Neptune North is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to deliver machine learning applications for defence and to provide technical oversight to a growing team in Newcastle upon Tyne.

You will lead ML projects across unstructured data, time series and deployment, mentor engineers, and help shape winning bids while collaborating with clients. A strong maths/statistics background and hands-on PyTorch/TensorFlow experience are essential.