Job Description
Contract Lead Machine Learning Engineer - Python, GenAI/RAG - Inside IR35 - £700/day - Hybrid RecOps is partnered with a leading consultancy looking for an experienced Lead Machine Learning Engineer to support an insurance client, leading the design and delivery of production AI and Generative AI systems. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, combining Python engineering with architecture, technical decision-making and mentoring other engineers. The role pays up to £700 per day, inside IR35 and requires one day per week in central London Key Skills Required: Strong hands-on Python software engineering, including Back End services and APIs Extensive experience delivering production ML, LLM and RAG applications Agentic AI, vector databases, retrieval and LLM orchestration Technical leadership, solution architecture and mentoring engineers Model evaluation, monitoring, guardrails and production support Cloud experience (ideally Azure), Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD Desirable: FastAPI, LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex or MLflow LLMOps/MLOps and model fine-tuning experience Insurance, financial services or other regulated industry experience Please apply now for immediate consideration. ..... full job details .....