Senior Software Engineer (ML)

Salford, GBR, M50 2QH
Birmingham, GBR, B1 1AY
Cardiff, GBR, CF10 1FT
Glasgow, GBR, G511DA
London, GBR, W1A 1AA
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, GBR, NE991RN

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Data Platforms
LOCATION: Salford Dock House, London Broadcasting House, Glasgow Pacific Quay, Newcastle, Cardiff Central Square, Birmingham Mailbox (1 day a week hybrid)
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £62,000 - £72,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

As a Senior Software Engineer within the Machine Learning Enablement Team at the BBC, you will design and deliver the tools, platforms, and capabilities that empower data scientists and engineering teams across the organisation. Your work will enable scalable, high-quality machine learning workflows and help shape the BBC's future through innovative technology solutions.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

Join a forward-thinking engineering community at one of the world's most respected media organisations. The Machine Learning Enablement Team sits at the forefront of technical innovation, building state-of-the-art systems that directly support the BBC's global impact. You'll contribute to a modern engineering culture rooted in collaboration, continuous learning, and craftsmanship-while developing tools used by millions of people worldwide. The BBC will support your growth with mentorship, learning opportunities, and exposure to cutting edge technologies.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & IMPACT

• Design, build and maintain tools, services, and infrastructure to support machine learning workflows.
• Apply strong engineering practices, including TDD, CI/CD, and clean software design principles.
• Mentor and support junior engineers, helping foster a culture of learning and excellence.
• Participate in pair programming and collaborative development to deliver maintainable, efficient code.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and integrations, especially involving data driven technologies.
• Engage with cross functional teams to define requirements and deliver high impact solutions.
• Conduct code reviews to uphold coding standards, quality, and security best practices.
• Plan and execute test strategies to ensure reliability and scalability of software.
• Build relationships with local engineering communities to support team growth and long term capability.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE ESSENTIAL

• Strong experience with modern Python development, including TDD and CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, best practices including optimisation, monitoring, and security considerations.
• Experience building cloud based services with AWS (e.g., SageMaker, S3, VPC, KMS).
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as AWS CDK or CloudFormation.
• Experience developing and maintaining data or ML focused pipelines.

DESIRED

• Experience designing scalable architectures for data driven products.
• Engagement with wider engineering communities or networks to support recruitment and knowledge sharing.
• Experience collaborating with cross functional teams, particularly data scientists and product teams, to deliver end to end solutions.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies.
• Familiarity with statistical concepts and machine learning techniques or frameworks.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

DISCLAIMER

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

THIS IS YOUR BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain.

BENEFITS

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35 hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis or on an orchestra conditions contract.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

CANDIDATE PACK YOU BELONG

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

DISABILITY CONFIDENT

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:

BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: , registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.