AI Engineer/ML Developer

AI Engineer/ML Developer

Posted 3 days ago by Square One Resources

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£550 Per day
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Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK
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Agile Methodology Application Programming Interface (API) Artificial Intelligence Azure Command-Line Interface (Azure CLI) Azure Kubernetes Service Cyber Security Data Store Deep Learning Document Processing Financial Services Know Your Customer Kubernetes Life Cycle Planning Machine Learning Management Microsoft 365 Microsoft Azure Natural Language Processing NLTK (NLP Analysis) OpenCV Open Source Development Optical Character Recognition (OCR) PostgreSQL Python (Programming Language) PyTorch (Machine Learning Library) Software Development TensorFlow Virtual Machines

Summary: The AI Engineer/ML Developer role in Sheffield involves building production-ready models for content extraction and classification, with a focus on AI capabilities in financial services. The position requires collaboration with business teams and product managers to design and develop solutions, as well as support the full application lifecycle. Candidates must have strong experience in Document AI and Python, with additional skills in machine learning and related frameworks being advantageous. This is a contract position with an initial duration until the end of November 2025.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Building production-ready models to drive content extraction and classification from images and text-based sources.
  • Working closely with business teams to understand requirements and iteratively design and develop solutions.
  • Collaborative with product managers, technical teams.
  • Create, test and iterate new and existing products and features.
  • Designing and building Python/ML/OCR-based components.
  • Not only supporting the development of the product, but also the full life cycle including the deployment, testing and production support of the application.

Key Skills:

  • MUST HAVE Strong experience in Document AI/Intelligent document processing using traditional models and Generative AI - particularly in using open source models for achieving business outcomes.
  • Experience delivering to production in Python, with a focus on machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, generative AI, image processing and OCR all additional positives.
  • Experience with some of the following frameworks - TensorFlow, Pytorch, Hugging face, Spacy, OpenCV, Regex or equivalents.
  • Experience delivering safe code to production, focusing on cybersecurity and resilience of the application and APIs.

Salary (Rate): £550 per day

City: Sheffield

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: on-site

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Job Title: AI Engineer/ML Developer
Location: Sheffield - 3 days per week in the office - only candidates within commutable distance will be considered by the client
Salary/Rate: Market rates
Start Date: 14/07/2025
Job Type: Contract

Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading financial services clients! They are currently looking for a skilled AI Engineer/ML Developer to join their team for an initial contract until the end of November.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives
The Onboarding and Know Your Customer Value Stream incorporates onboarding products, platforms, and a delivery capability particularly suited to client-aligned agile delivery at pace.
They are investing heavily across these domains with a strategic focus on increasing adoption of AI capabilities through our flagship AI journeys, day-to-day engineering and overall ways of working. To accelerate achieving our vision, we are seeking an experienced AI Engineer to join the Client Services and OBKYC Technology group.

  1. Building production-ready models to drive content extraction and classification from images and text-based sources.
  2. Working closely with business teams to understand requirements and iteratively design and develop solutions.
  3. Collaborative with product managers, technical teams.
  4. Create, test and iterate new and existing products and features.
  5. Designing and building Python/ML/OCR-based components.
  6. Not only supporting the development of the product, but also the full life cycle including the deployment, testing and production support of the application.

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

  1. MUST HAVE Strong experience in Document AI/Intelligent document processing using traditional models and Generative AI - particularly in using open source models for achieving business outcomes.
  2. Experience delivering to production in Python, with a focus on machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, generative AI, image processing and OCR all additional positives.
  3. Experience with some of the following frameworks - TensorFlow, Pytorch, Hugging face, Spacy, OpenCV, Regex or equivalents.
  4. Experience delivering safe code to production, focusing on cybersecurity and resilience of the application and APIs.

Desirable Skills/Experience
Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client:

  1. Experience using PostgreSQL for data storage and management.
  2. Proficiency with Azure core services like Azure Virtual Machines and experience with one or all of Azure CLI, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure DevOps
  3. Experience delivering in teams releasing at a high cadence to production.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally. Please see our website for our full diversity statement.

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