Machine Learning Engineer

SF Partners
Birmingham, West Midlands (county), United Kingdom
Last month
£60,000 – £75,000 pa
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Machine Learning Engineer

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Machine Learning Engineer

PhysicsX United Kingdom
Remote

Salary

£60,000 – £75,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Mid
Education
Degree
Security Clearance
Required
Posted
1 Jun 2026 (Last month)

Benefits

25 days holiday Generous pension scheme 10% Bonus Private healthcare

Machine Learning Engineer with generative AI, LLM or ML experience is sought by a high growth scale up based near Birmingham.

Working at the forefront of national security innovation this Machine Learning Engineer will work within a R&D team collaborating with industry partners to turn ideas into production ready, market leading solutions.

This role would suit a software engineer with a couple of years commercial experience within broad range of technologies and a demonstratable passion for AI/ ML innovation who is looking for a truly collaborative, autonomous working environment with end to end project exposure.

In return this Machine Learning Engineer can expect excellent career development and training opportunities within a market leading SME.

Given the nature of the work all successful candidates will need to be British citizens

This Machine Learning Engineer should have most of the following key skills:

- A software or data engineering background - Python, JavaScript, Typescript node.js etc

- A real passion for bleeding edge generative AI and/or advanced machine learning technology - Pytorch, TensorFlow, LlamaCPP, Keras etc

- Varied database exposure - PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CosmosDB

- Cloud services exposure - AWS preferred but all considered

- Very strong communication skills

- Experience working in R&D or small technical teams would be a plus

This Machine Learning Engineer will receive

- Starting salary of up £70,000 DoE

- Hybrid working (1 day a week in the office)

- Extensive personal development scheme

- 25 days holiday

- Generous pension scheme

- 10% Bonus

- Private healthcare

- Truly autonomous, collaborative culture with extensive growth potential

- Regular remuneration reviews

So if you are a Machine Learning Engineer who wants to join a market leading business with innovation at its core please apply now to be considered

Birmingham

Research & development, generative AI, machine learning, LLM, Python, PyTorch

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