Staff ML Engineer

SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation™; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock Option Plan

25 days holiday

Pension contributions

Ongoing training & development

Job summary

An innovative AI technology platform based in London seeks a Staff ML Engineer to lead Data and NLP projects. This role involves owning search performance, optimizing algorithms, and implementing large language model workflows. Candidates should have over 8 years of experience in machine learning and a strong background in NLP. Attractive benefits include a stock option plan, generous holiday, and a strong focus on ongoing training. This position offers a hybrid working model with 3 days in the office.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of commercial experience in engineering and data science.
• Proven technical leadership experience in machine learning.
• Deep experience in Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Responsibilities

• Own and improve search performance for precision and recall.
• Optimize large-scale search algorithms for speed and relevance.
• Design and implement agentic LLM workflows.

Skills

Machine Learning

Natural Language Processing

Data Science

Technical Leadership

TensorFlow

PyTorch

AWS

Search Databases

Job description

Staff ML Engineer – AI / NLP / Search (London – Hybrid) £90,000 - £110,000

An industry-leading, AI-first technology platform in the intellectual property space is hiring a Staff-Level ML Engineer to lead all Data and NLP initiatives.

This company was an early adopter of Large Language Models and is building advanced, agentic AI workflows that autonomously answer complex research questions. The platform combines proprietary ML models with cutting-edge NLP techniques to deliver high-precision search and insights at scale.

The Role

As the technical lead for Data & NLP, you will:

• Own and improve search performance (precision & recall)
• Optimise large-scale search algorithms for speed and relevance
• Design and implement agentic LLM workflows
• Build and maintain robust data pipelines
• Lead model development, training, and deployment
• Provide technical leadership across ML and NLP initiatives

This is a high-impact, hands‑on leadership role in a product‑driven AI company.

Requirements

• 8+ years of commercial experience in engineering and data science
• Proven technical leadership experience
• Commercial Machine Learning experience
• Deep experience in Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Experience training models in TensorFlow and PyTorch
• Experience with search databases (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, etc.)
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms
• Willingness to work 3 days per week onsite in London

What’s on Offer

• Stock Option Plan
• 25 days holiday
• Pension contributions
• Ongoing training & development

If you’re excited about building advanced AI systems that solve complex real‑world problems at scale, I’d be keen to speak.

Please feel free to message me directly for more details.