Senior AI Engineer

Senior / Staff AI Engineer (Python, ML Systems) - FULLY REMOTE

High-growth AI |

We're working with a well-funded, fast-scaling AI company building a highly ambitious product at enterprise scale. They're now looking to add Senior and Staff-level AI Engineers to help shape the next phase of their ML platform and establish strong technical leadership within the team.

This is a product engineering role (not consultancy, not internal tools) with a heavy focus on ML systems, model deployment, and production AI infrastructure.

What you'll be doing

  • Designing and building production ML systems and pipelines in Python
  • Architecting scalable inference infrastructure and model serving systems
  • Building robust MLOps tooling for training, evaluation, and deployment
  • Owning AI system reliability, performance optimization, and monitoring at scale
  • Acting as a technical leader within the AI engineering team, with a clear path to Staff / Tech Lead impact
  • Helping lay the foundations for significant product and engineering growth over the next 12–18 months

What they're looking for

  • Senior or Staff-level AI/ML engineer (roughly 10–12+ years' experience)
  • Expert Python skills with deep ML frameworks experience (PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar)
  • Proven experience running production ML systems at scale
  • Strong background in model deployment, MLOps, and ML system architecture
  • Experience with LLMs, transformers, or modern AI architectures
  • Comfortable making long-term technical decisions around ML infrastructure
  • Experience in regulated or enterprise AI environments is a plus
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals (not pure research)

Strong positive signals:

  • Solid tenures at companies running ML/AI at real scale
  • Clear career progression into senior AI technical responsibility
  • Background in production ML platforms or high-traffic AI products

Team & environment

  • Small, high-calibre engineering team (~8 engineers)
  • Fast-paced, high-ownership culture
  • Serious technical ambition — strong people to learn from, but expectations are high
  • Backed by recent oversubscribed funding and a very strong customer pipeline

Package

  • Senior: ~£100k–£125k
  • Staff: up to ~£130k (target level)
  • Meaningful equity at an early stage
  • Clear growth trajectory as the company scales toward Series A

If you're an AI engineer who thrives on turning models into products, building robust ML systems, and technical leadership, this is a rare opportunity to get in early and have genuine influence.

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Job Details

Company
SearchWorks
Location
Bath, Somerset, UK
Hybrid / Remote Options
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted