Senior ML Engineer (Java/Python) - Flexible Belfast Role

MCS Group; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Belfast office - fully flexible

Pension, health insurance and flexible

Working hours flexibility

Early influence over a new product's

The opportunity to combine hands-on ML

Job summary

MCS Group is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Belfast to join a US software partner developing a cybersecurity product. You will blend statistics, machine learning and robust software engineering to take the product from prototype through to market.

You will contribute to architecture decisions, work with an experienced team, and bring a track record of four to five years in production Java along with strong Python and ML fundamentals to solve real-world security challenges.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial software engineering experience, ideally including four to five years working with production Java.
• Practical experience in applied statistics, mathematical modelling or machine learning.
• Confidence working with complex datasets and evaluating model performance.

Responsibilities

• Develop statistical models and unsupervised learning techniques to identify anomalies in complex datasets.
• Investigate data, evaluate different detection approaches and assess their effectiveness.
• Turn experimental work into robust, tested and maintainable production software.
• Contribute to architecture and technical decisions as the product develops.
• Work closely with an experienced engineering team, influencing the product from an early stage.

Skills

Production Java

Python

Statistics and ML

Software Engineering

Data Analysis

Tools

ClickHouse

Job description

MCS Group is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Belfast to join a US software partner developing a cybersecurity product. You will blend statistics, machine learning and robust software engineering to take the product from prototype through to market.

You will contribute to architecture decisions, work with an experienced team, and bring a track record of four to five years in production Java along with strong Python and ML fundamentals to solve real-world security challenges.