Senior Staff ML Engineer — Real-time Trade AI Lead

Altana; Ashington; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Learning & Development

Health benefits

Paid time off

Equity program

Parental leave

Job summary

Altana seeks a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead the AI behind Altana Nexus, our agentic platform for global trade. You’ll own end-to-end ML systems from data ingestion to real-time decisioning across risk, compliance and enforcement for governments and major enterprises.

You’ll architect scalable pipelines, supervise multi-agent workflows, and mentor engineers while shaping product strategy with software, data science, and customers.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping agentic systems in production
• Proven ability to design scalable ML pipelines
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with SFT, RLHF/RLAIF, and reward modeling
• Familiarity with safety, guardrails or auditability for AI in regulated domains
• Multilingual NLP and document understanding experience
• Hands-on production LLM applications (RAG, tool calling)
• Experience building multi-agent systems and agent tooling

Responsibilities

• Define architecture and roadmap for models and agentic systems
• Lead the end-to-end data ingestion to decision pipeline for real-time risk and compliance decisions
• Mentor engineers and contribute to hiring and leveling ML talent
• Shape product direction by collaborating with software engineers, data scientists, product managers and customers
• Develop observability, evals, tracing and feedback loops for production ML systems
• Work with LLM tools and frontier model APIs to balance cost, latency, and accuracy

Skills

Agentic systems

Strong communication

RLHF/RLAIF experience

Multi-agent workflows

Multilingual NLP

AI safety

Education

BS/MS in CS/ML or related field

Tools

Python

Spark

PyTorch

Hugging Face

MLflow

Databricks Mosaic AI

LangGraph

LangSmith/Braintrust

vLLM

FAISS

OpenSearch

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Job description

Altana seeks a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead the AI behind Altana Nexus, our agentic platform for global trade. You’ll own end-to-end ML systems from data ingestion to real-time decisioning across risk, compliance and enforcement for governments and major enterprises.

You’ll architect scalable pipelines, supervise multi-agent workflows, and mentor engineers while shaping product strategy with software, data science, and customers.