Senior Machine Learning Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join a leading AI company in Belfast, to help design, build, and deploy scalable AI/ML solutions. You'll work closely with data scientists, software engineers, and scientific/technical stakeholders — productionising advanced analytics across large, complex, multimodal datasets.

Reporting to a senior technical leader, you'll play a key role in advancing the AI platform, with opportunities across ML systems, cloud infrastructure, MLOps, and applied AI.

What you’ll be doing:

• Designing, developing, and deploying production-grade ML and AI systems
• Supporting computer vision and foundation model workflows for specialised imaging applications
• Optimising model performance, scalability, monitoring, and reproducibility in the cloud
• Contributing to MLOps practices — model versioning, CI/CD, testing, observability
• Translating scientific and commercial requirements into technical solutions
• Evaluating emerging AI/ML technologies relevant to the sector
• Supporting technical presentations and customer discussions where required
• Contributing to engineering best practices and technical mentorship

What we’re looking for:

• 3+ years’ ML engineering experience
• Strong Python, Machine Learning, AI, and statistical foundations
• Experience deploying ML systems in production
• Deep learning frameworks (PyTorch or TensorFlow)
• Cloud experience (AWS preferred) and containerisation
• MLOps familiarity — deployment, monitoring, experiment tracking, CI/CD
• Strong software engineering, APIs, and scalable system design understanding
• Excellent communication — comfortable presenting to technical and C-suite audiences
• Right to work in the UK or Ireland