Lead Machine Learning Engineer - Inside IR35 - £700/day - Hybrid
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Contract Lead Machine Learning Engineer - Python, GenAI/RAG - Inside IR35 - £700/day - Hybrid
RecOps is partnered with a leading consultancy looking for an experienced Lead Machine Learning Engineer to support an insurance client, leading the design and delivery of production AI and Generative AI systems.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role, combining Python engineering with architecture, technical decision-making and mentoring other engineers.
The role pays up to £700 per day, inside IR35 and requires one day per week in central London
Key Skills Required:
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Strong hands-on Python software engineering, including Back End services and APIs
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Extensive experience delivering production ML, LLM and RAG applications
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Agentic AI, vector databases, retrieval and LLM orchestration
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Technical leadership, solution architecture and mentoring engineers
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Model evaluation, monitoring, guardrails and production support
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Cloud experience (ideally Azure), Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD
Desirable:
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FastAPI, LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex or MLflow
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LLMOps/MLOps and model fine-tuning experience
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Insurance, financial services or other regulated industry experience
Please apply now for immediate consideration.
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