MTC - Manufacturing Technology Centre
Advanced Research Engineer
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The Vacancy
We are looking for a highly skilled Advanced Research Engineer to design, develop, and deliver advanced AI and machine learning solutions for real-world industrial challenges. You’ll work at the forefront of generative AI, RAG systems, agentic models, and AI assurance, taking ownership of complex technical projects from concept through to deployment.
As an ARE you will work with multi-disciplinary teams using their domain knowledge to deliver innovative solutions aligned with the MTC members and customers challenges and help drive the research and innovation roadmap to support UK Industry.
This role is ideal for someone who wants to stay deeply hands-on, lead technically, and contribute to the organisation’s research direction.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the technical delivery of advanced ML and AI projects including regression, classification, segmentation, genAI, RAG, and agentic workflows.
- Design system architectures, research plans, and experimental methodologies for high impact projects.
- Translate research outputs into modular, reusable components and demonstrators.
- Contribute to the organisation’s trustworthy AI and AI assurance research, developing methods, tools, and best practice guidance.
- Maintain and enhance key AI demonstrators, ensuring reliability and continuous improvement.
- Provide technical leadership within multidisciplinary project teams, guiding engineers and contributing to project planning.
- Support business development by contributing technical insight to customer discussions, proposals, and collaborative R&D bids.
- Influence the organisation’s AI capability roadmap through research insights and technology scouting.
- Engage with internal and external stakeholders to share findings, present research, and support decision making.
- Participate in cross organisation initiatives such as the AI Validation Network, contributing technical expertise to advance UK AI assurance practice.
- Maintain relevance and stay up to date with emerging research, tools, and technologies — and bring them into active project work.
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Required Skills
- Strong Python expertise (numpy, pandas, TensorFlow/PyTorch/Keras, LangChain/LangGraph).
- Deep understanding of ML/AI methodologies, model development, and evaluation.
- Experience with Linux, Docker, Docker-Compose, and Kubernetes.
- Ability to design and deploy REST APIs using Flask or FastAPI.
- Strong ability to interpret technical requirements and translate them into actionable research and engineering tasks.
- Excellent communication skills for explaining complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Knowledge of trustworthy AI frameworks, AI assurance principles, and testing methodologies beyond performance metrics.
Nice to Have
- Experience with AI monitoring and observability tools (Arize Phoenix, Langfuse, RAGAS, TruLens).
- Cloud experience (Azure, AWS).
- Data visualisation and dashboarding tools.
- Experience producing system diagrams and interface documentation.
- Exposure to MLOps, CI/CD, or model deployment pipelines.
- Lightweight UI development (Streamlit, Gradio).
- Customer facing or business development experience.
- Experience of technically leading projects.
About The MTC
The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) is an internationally renowned and respected research and development organisation, bridging the gap between academia and manufacturing, and is home to some of the brightest minds in engineering from around the globe.
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The MTC's engineers, scientists and technicians work with some of the most advanced manufacturing equipment in the world in a supportive and collegiate environment for the development and demonstration of new technologies on an industrial scale, helping manufacturers of all sizes develop new and innovative processes and technologies.
Established to prove cutting edge manufacturing advances in an agile environment in partnership with industry, academia and other institutions, the MTC works with hundreds of industrial clients across a range of sectors including automotive, aerospace, rail, informatics, food and drink, infrastructure, construction and civil engineering, electronics, oil and gas and defence. The MTC helps businesses thrive by advancing their technological and engineering capabilities to improve their business efficiency, capability and competitiveness.
Supported by one of the largest public sector investments in UK Manufacturing, the MTC's engineering capabilities cover research and development, advanced manufacturing management, factory design and training for the skills of the future.
The MTC has world-class facilities in Coventry, Liverpool and Oxford, and is part of the UK's High Value Manufacturing Catapult, supported by Innovate UK.
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