Senior ML Engineer — Production Systems in Secure Environments

Forwardrole; Manchester, Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Forwardrole is seeking specialists in ML and MLOps with machine learning as the core capability, spanning research, prototyping, productionisation and deployment in National Security environments in the UK. Location options include Manchester or Cheltenham with hybrid working and Secure Site requirements.

You'll work with teams that care about the discipline, keep near to research, and drive production-ready ML systems, aiming for reliable deployment and strong engineering practices.

Qualifications

• Mid-level to Senior/Lead ML engineer with core ML capability.
• Active SC clearance minimum, DV/eDV desirable.
• Hybrid working with secure site requirements.

Responsibilities

• Develop ML and MLOps capabilities from research to production deployment.
• Deliver production ML pipelines and monitoring in national security environments.
• Collaborate with Platform and Data Engineers to ensure reliable model performance outside notebooks.
• Work across research and engineering to advance ML systems in production use.

Skills

Python fundamentals

Research mindset

Engineering mindset

Tools

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

scikit-learn

AWS

Docker

Linux

CI/CD

Job description

Forwardrole is seeking specialists in ML and MLOps with machine learning as the core capability, spanning research, prototyping, productionisation and deployment in National Security environments in the UK. Location options include Manchester or Cheltenham with hybrid working and Secure Site requirements.

You'll work with teams that care about the discipline, keep near to research, and drive production-ready ML systems, aiming for reliable deployment and strong engineering practices.