Senior MLOps Engineer

New Permanent Opportunity for a Senior MLOps Engineer in Greater London

Must hold active clearance – SC or MoD DV

Up to £95k DoE plus bonus

4 days on site in Brentford – future expensed travel to client site in Cambridge

Strong experience across MLOps, ML infrastructure and production AI systems

Who are we?

We are recruiting a Senior AI/ML Engineer with strong MLOps and ML infrastructure experience for a highly technical AI organisation delivering advanced computer vision and machine learning technologies across Defence, Security and other high-performance environments.

You’ll work alongside AI researchers, software engineers and technical leadership to take cutting-edge machine learning research from R&D through to reliable, production-ready systems. The role offers the opportunity to work on challenging AI applications deployed across both large-scale cloud environments and edge platforms.

What will the Senior MLOps Engineer be doing?

You will design, build and maintain the infrastructure that powers advanced AI systems from research through to production. You’ll develop distributed training pipelines, build ML lifecycle infrastructure, optimise models for deployment and support reliable AI systems across cloud and edge environments.

Key Skills and Requirements

Strong Python/PyTorch and ML infrastructure experience

Experience with distributed ML training using Ray, DeepSpeed or PyTorch Lightning

Strong MLflow, model registry and ML lifecycle experience

Experience with TensorRT, ONNX, quantisation and model deployment

Strong Docker, CI/CD and GitHub Actions experience

Experience with Prometheus/Grafana monitoring and production observability

Cloud/edge AI deployment, with NVIDIA Jetson/DeepStream highly desirable

Knowledge of Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Metaflow and Kafka advantageous

Computer vision, aerial/satellite/ISR experience highly beneficial

To be Considered:

Please either apply by clicking online or emailing me directly at henry.clay-davies@searchability.com. For further information please call me on 0161 416 6800 or 07719065951 - I can make myself available outside of normal working hours to suit from 7 am until 10 pm. If unavailable, please leave a message and either myself or one of my colleagues will respond. By applying for this role, you give express consent for us to process & submit (subject to required skills) your application to our client in conjunction with this vacancy only. Also feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn, just search for Henry Clay-Davies. I look forward to hearing from you.

KEY SKILLS:

MLOps / MLOps Engineer / ML Infrastructure / ML Platform / AI Engineer / Machine Learning / ML / Python / PyTorch / Ray / DeepSpeed / PyTorch Lightning / MLflow / TensorRT / ONNX / Docker / Kubernetes / CI/CD / GitHub Actions / Prometheus / Grafana / Metaflow / Kafka / NVIDIA Jetson / DeepStream / Edge AI / Computer Vision / Deep Learning