ML Engineer - 6 month contract

  • Opus Recruitment Solutions
  • Oct 29, 2025
Contractor Telecommunications

Job Description

I am working with a consultancy feeding into the public sector, looking for multiple ML Engineers.

Inside IR35
400 - 500 per day (depending on experience level)
Remote (occasional London travel)

  • Proven experience building and deploying machine learning models in a production environment.
  • Strong programming skills and deep expertise in Python.
  • Hands-on experience building with agentic or RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex.
  • Familiarity with tools for working with Large Language Models via API or in a local context (e.g. HuggingFace transformers).
  • Practical experience using managed AI services and foundation models from a major cloud provider (e.g., Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Azure AI Services).
  • Experience with a major conversational AI platform (Google Dialogflow, Amazon Lex, Rasa, or similar).
  • A solid understanding of core Python ML libraries (Keras, scikit-learn, Pandas) and deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch).

Desirable (but not essential) experience:
  • Working with tools/interfaces for AI applications e.g. MCP protocol.
  • Training traditional ML and DL models using tools like Axolotl, LoRA, or QLoRA.
  • Experience with multi-agent orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI)
  • Experience with observability and evaluation tools for LLMs such as TruLens or Helicone.
  • Experience with AI safety and reliability frameworks like Guardrails AI.