Senior ML Engineer

Location Bristol
Discipline: Connect AI
Job type: Permanent
Salary: £60,000 to £90,000
Contact name: Fadi Jawish

Contact email: fadi@connectgroup.ai
Published: 1 day ago

Machine Learning Engineer

📍 Hybrid – Bristol preferred)
💰 Competitive salary + equity
🏢 High-growth AI startup

We’re working with a fast-growing, venture-backed AI startup in the UK that’s building genuinely impactful products using machine learning at scale. They’re now looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to join their core engineering team and play a key role in shaping both the product and the ML function from an early stage.

This is a brilliant opportunity to join a company where ML is central to the product, not an afterthought.

What you’ll be doing

  • Designing, building and deploying machine learning models into production

  • Working closely with backend engineers, product managers and data teams to turn ideas into real features

  • Building and maintaining ML pipelines (training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring)

  • Improving model performance, scalability and reliability in a production environment

  • Experimenting with new approaches and contributing to model architecture decisions

  • Taking ownership of ML systems end-to-end — from data to deployment

What they’re looking for

  • Strong experience as a Machine Learning Engineer or similar role

  • Solid Python skills and experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow or JAX

  • Experience deploying ML models into production (not just notebooks)

  • Good understanding of data pipelines, model evaluation and monitoring

  • Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure)

  • Comfortable working in a startup / fast-moving environment

  • A pragmatic mindset — you care about shipping, not just theory

Nice to have (but not essential)

  • Experience with LLMs, NLP or generative AI

  • MLOps experience (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD for ML)

  • Background in applied ML rather than purely academic research

  • Previous experience in an early-stage or scaling startup

What’s on offer

  • Competitive salary depending on experience

  • Equity / share options

  • Flexible working (remote-first with optional office time)

  • High ownership and real influence over technical decisions

  • The chance to build products used by real customers, fast