AI/ML Engineer

AI / ML Engineer

Location: Hampshire / Hybrid - 2 days per week onsite
Salary: £60,000 per annum + benefits

Are you an experienced AI/ML Engineer who enjoys tackling complex technical problems and turning research into practical solutions?

We're looking for a hands-on AI/ML professional to join a highly technical engineering team working on challenging projects across Defence, National Security and other technically complex environments.

This is an opportunity to work across areas including LLMs, NLP, Computer Vision and Reinforcement Learning, depending on your experience.

What you'll be doing

• Researching and evaluating state-of-the-art AI/ML techniques.
• Adapting academic research and existing algorithms to solve real-world problems.
• Designing, developing and testing AI/ML solutions.
• Building hands-on AI/ML software, primarily using Python.
• Experimenting with different approaches and evaluating results.
• Working on both early-stage R&D projects and larger engineering programmes.
• Providing technical guidance and mentoring to junior engineers.
• Supporting technical solution design, customer engagements and bids.

What we're looking for

• Strong hands-on experience in AI/ML engineering, R&D or applied research.
• Experience applying AI/ML techniques to complex problems.
• Experience researching, adapting and applying algorithms or academic research.
• Strong Python and software engineering skills.
• Experience working in agile engineering teams.
• A genuine interest in experimenting with new technologies and solving problems where the solution isn't immediately obvious.
• Experience in one or more of LLMs, NLP, Computer Vision or Reinforcement Learning.

Defence or National Security experience is advantageous but not essential. We're equally interested in candidates from other technically demanding environments with strong applied AI/ML experience.

We're particularly interested in engineers who are hands-on and technically curious, rather than candidates whose experience is predominantly focused on large-scale enterprise ML pipelines or generic MLOps.

Why join?

You'll be working alongside highly capable engineers on genuinely challenging problems, with the opportunity to push the boundaries of AI/ML and see your work applied to real-world customer challenges.

You'll also benefit from a competitive salary, flexible working, technical development opportunities and a range of health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits.

If this role is of interest, apply now or email your CV to me directly at (url removed)