ML Engineer - 6 month contract

Overview

I am working with a consultancy feeding into the public sector, looking for multiple ML Engineers.

Inside IR35 - £400 - £500 per day (depending on experience level). Remote (occasional London travel).

Required Experience

• Proven experience building and deploying machine learning models in a production environment.
• Strong programming skills and deep expertise in Python.
• Hands on experience building with agentic or RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex.
• Familiarity with tools for working with Large Language Models via API or in a local context (e.g. HuggingFace transformers).
• Practical experience using managed AI services and foundation models from a major cloud provider (e.g., Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Azure AI Services).
• Experience with a major conversational AI platform (Google Dialogflow, Amazon Lex, Rasa, or similar).
• A solid understanding of core Python ML libraries (Keras, scikit learn, Pandas) and deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch).

Desirable (but not essential)

• Working with tools/interfaces for AI applications e.g. MCP protocol.
• Training traditional ML and DL models using tools like Axolotl, LoRA, or QLoRA.
• Experience with multi agent orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI).
• Experience with observability and evaluation tools for LLMs such as TruLens or Helicone.
• Experience with AI safety and reliability frameworks like Guardrails AI.