Senior ML Engineer — Agentic AI Platform (Hybrid Dublin)

Ocho People Ltd.; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 111,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Ocho People Ltd. is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on a 6-month contract to build and run an agentic platform. You will work under a Principal ML Engineer to deploy ML models and agent services in production, collaborating with data science to translate designs into reliable services.

Hybrid in Dublin with around 2 days onsite, you’ll enhance ML/infrastructure, contribute to greenfield work, and grow toward architecture ownership while using MCP and A2A protocols.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in machine learning or platform engineering.
• Experience building AI infrastructure on Azure (preferred) or AWS.
• Hands on experience deploying ML models to production.
• Some exposure to greenfield development integrated with legacy systems.
• Python, SQL, Docker or Podman, and Terraform.
• Practical experience of CI/CD in an ML context.
• MCP server deployment and A2A (Agent2Agent protocol), or agent to agent orchestration experience you can map onto them quickly.
• Working knowledge of MLOps and LLMOps.
• Eligible to work in Ireland and able to be in the Dublin office around 2 days a week.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain deployment pipelines, monitoring and reliability tooling for agentic and conventional ML systems.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code for ML and agentic services.
• Develop and deploy MCP servers and integrate A2A agent communication into existing services.
• Deploy conventional ML models to production and support their ongoing operation.
• Contribute to greenfield builds that integrate with legacy systems and data sources.
• Flag integration risk early so it can be designed around.
• Support monitoring, logging, alerting and evaluation practices for models and agents in production.
• Collaborate with the data science group to turn model and agent designs into deployed services.

Skills

ML infra on Azure/AWS

CI/CD for ML

MLOps / LLMOps

MCP / A2A protocols

Python

SQL

Docker / Podman

Terraform

Production ML deployments

Tools

Azure

AWS

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Ocho People Ltd. is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on a 6-month contract to build and run an agentic platform. You will work under a Principal ML Engineer to deploy ML models and agent services in production, collaborating with data science to translate designs into reliable services.

Hybrid in Dublin with around 2 days onsite, you’ll enhance ML/infrastructure, contribute to greenfield work, and grow toward architecture ownership while using MCP and A2A protocols.