Hybrid Machine Learning Engineer – Forward Deployed

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About the role

  • Machine Learning Engineer working with multidisciplinary teams to deploy AI/ML systems in Defence. Engaging with clients, troubleshooting issues, and enhancing machine learning solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Moving models from research/prototype to live, high-impact production environments, adapting those solutions to client-specific data, systems, and interfaces.
  • Resolving unforeseen edge-cases and challenges, providing on-site fixes or relaying them back to the product team.
  • Troubleshooting integration issues with existing systems.
  • Working directly with product teams to maintain deep technical expertise in Mind Foundry's products, capabilities and workflows.
  • Engaging directly with defence customers to translate their needs and goals into technical requirements.
  • Providing hands on support to end users.
  • Extending and improving internal ML platforms, tooling, and best practices, incorporating learnings from deployments back into shared frameworks.

Requirements

  • A Degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, or a related STEM field (or equivalent practical experience)
  • Strong engineer with demonstrated proficiency in programming languages such as Python, producing clean, reproducible, well-tested, and well-documented code suitable for long-term ownership and handover.
  • Hands-on experience with production infrastructure, including Docker, Linux, CI/CD, MLOps, cloud platforms, and model serving architectures.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Exceptional problem-solving skills and
  • Comfortable solving technical problems with limited internet access.
  • Prior experience working with government customers, defence contractors, or in military environments.
  • Experience in areas of model development, data processing and streaming (Spark, Kafka), microservices in python (Flask or FastAPI), and interactive visualisations and User Interfaces (Streamlit, Plotly, Gradio etc).
  • Broader software engineering experience (e.g. Java, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, system architecture, DevOps).

Benefits

  • Hybrid working
  • Flexible hours
  • Professional and personal development
  • 25 days of annual leave (plus Bank Holidays and a company-wide break over Christmas)
  • Salary Sacrifice Pension scheme with a 5% employer contribution (5% employee contribution)
  • Private Healthcare (including dental and optical cover)
  • Group Life Cover at three times your annual salary once you pass your probation period
  • Enhanced Parental and Sickness Leave
  • Workplace Nursery Scheme
  • Dog-friendly office!

Job title

Machine Learning Engineer – Forward Deployed

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Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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