Junior ML Engineer – Contract – SC Cleared

MORELA

Junior Machine Learning Engineer

Contract  |  6 months, view to extend  |  Remote (UK)  |  Active SC required  |  Start ASAP

A venture-backed UK AI business working in regulated and security-sensitive sectors is standing up a brand new modelling and optimisation capability, and needs a junior engineer to help build it.

You will spend your time writing code. The domain is physics-based performance modelling rather than LLM work, but the job is engineering: getting models out of notebooks and into something that runs reliably in production, alongside senior engineers who have done this before.

▪    Writing production code and taking models from prototype to running reliably against real data.

▪    Building and testing the pipelines and tooling the models run on.

▪    Building the ingestion and processing for physical, environmental and sensor data.

▪    Implementing the optimisation that turns model outputs into decisions.

▪    Benchmarking and validating your own work, since the outputs get independently checked.

▪    Evidence you can build things. Code you have written yourself that someone else has run.

▪    Fluent scientific Python, particularly NumPy and SciPy.

▪    Proper engineering habits, testing your own work and using Git in a team.

▪    Enough mathematical grounding for the domain, from a physics, maths, engineering or statistics background, or from modelling and simulation work picked up elsewhere.

▪    Active SC clearance.

Useful but not essential: Docker, optimisation, time-series or signal processing, and any prior work in defence, government or another regulated environment.

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For a confidential conversation, contact Adam Moore at adam.moore@morela.co.uk.