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Lead Machine Learning Engineer – Retail
x2 days per week in a central London office (hybrid)
About the Company
We’re working with a fast-scaling AI organisation that partners with large product and platform-led businesses to deliver machine learning systems that support personalisation, demand forecasting, and operational resilience. Their work helps clients enhance customer experience, optimise fulfilment and logistics, and make smarter, data-driven decisions.
This is a senior-level technical role with plenty of scope to shape the architecture, tooling, and delivery practices across impactful applied AI projects.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead the design and development of robust machine learning platforms that power core business functions across multiple client environments
- Set technical strategy across projects and drive execution on model development, deployment workflows, and infrastructure
- Collaborate with engineers, product teams, and stakeholders to translate high-level objectives into scalable ML solutions
- Build shared tools and frameworks that support consistency and reusability across the engineering function
- Guide project scoping and delivery plans while helping define best practices around ML system design
- Mentor engineers at varying levels and contribute to hiring, capability building, and tooling decisions
- Help clients understand trade-offs and solution architecture, acting as the senior point of technical contact throughout delivery
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What They’re Looking For
- Strong experience leading end-to-end ML engineering projects, ideally with exposure to customer-centric, high-traffic environments
- Proficiency in Python and hands-on experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Scikit-learn
- Familiarity with cloud-based deployment workflows and infrastructure management (e.g. AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Real-world experience working with Docker, Kubernetes, and production ML pipelines
- Strong communication skills and comfort engaging across technical, commercial, and executive teams
- A pragmatic and detail-oriented approach to balancing experimentation with reliable, scalable delivery


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