MLOps Engineer

Contract MLOps / Machine Learning Engineer

£650/day Inside IR35 6-Month Contract Hybrid London (2 days per week preferred)

We're looking for an experienced MLOps / Machine Learning Engineer to join a high-performing recommendation team within a major consumer technology platform.

This is an engineering-first role focused on deploying and scaling machine learning models in real-time production environments. You'll work on customer-facing recommendation systems, helping deliver personalised experiences at scale while contributing to modern ML and LLM-powered workflows.

What You'll Be Doing

• Deploying machine learning models into production environments • Building and maintaining real-time ML systems • Supporting recommendation and ranking engines • Working on model serving, monitoring and performance optimisation • Deploying neural network and transformer-based models • Contributing to product retrieval systems and LLM-powered workflows • Collaborating closely with software engineers and data scientists

What We're Looking For

• Strong experience as an MLOps Engineer or Machine Learning Engineer • Proven track record deploying ML models into production • Experience with real-time / online ML systems • Strong software engineering and Python skills • Experience operating and scaling ML infrastructure • Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills

Nice to Have

• Recommendation systems • Ranking systems • Personalisation platforms • LLMOps experience •…