ML Engineer - 6 month contract

I am working with a consultancy feeding into the public sector, looking for multiple ML Engineers.Inside IR35£400 - £500 per day (depending on experience level)Remote (occasional London travel)

• Proven experience building and deploying machine learning models in a production environment.

• Strong programming skills and deep expertise in Python.

• Hands-on experience building with agentic or RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex.

• Familiarity with tools for working with Large Language Models via API or in a local context (e.g. HuggingFace transformers).

• Practical experience using managed AI services and foundation models from a major cloud provider (e.g., Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Azure AI Services).

• Experience with a major conversational AI platform (Google Dialogflow, Amazon Lex, Rasa, or similar).

• A solid understanding of core Python ML libraries (Keras, scikit-learn, Pandas) and deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch).

Desirable (but not essential) experience:

• Working with tools/interfaces for AI applications e.g. MCP protocol.

• Training traditional ML and DL models using tools like Axolotl, LoRA, or QLoRA.

• Experience with multi-agent orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI)

• Experience with observability and evaluation tools for LLMs such as TruLens or Helicone.

• Experience with AI safety and reliability frameworks like Guardrails AI.