Data Engineer - AI/ML Research - £92K

Data Engineer - AI/ML Research - £92K

Posted 2 days ago by Principle

£92,000 Per year
Inside
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom

Summary: The Data Engineer role focuses on supporting an AI research project centered on LLM agents, requiring expertise in data onboarding, filtering, and pipeline automation. The position involves working with large datasets and collaborating with research engineers to ensure data quality. This role is embedded within an AI research team and emphasizes low administration with high impact. The contract is until December 2025, with potential for extension.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Preprocessing, cleaning, and converting large datasets (text/image/video)
  • Running filtering pipelines to mitigate data risks
  • Packaging and ingesting datasets for ML teams
  • Collaborating with research engineers to ensure high-quality, trustworthy data

Key Skills:

  • Strong Python skills and hands-on data pipeline development
  • Experience working with unstructured data (image/video/text)
  • Data quality control, validation, and reformatting experience
  • Exposure to ML pipelines or research projects is a plus

Salary (Rate): £92,000 yearly

City: London

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Data Engineer – AI/ML Research | £92K | Hybrid London (3 days onsite)

We’re hiring a technically strong Data Engineer to support a cutting-edge AI research project focused on LLM agents. You’ll work on the data onboarding, filtering, and pipeline automation that power advanced machine learning models in production-scale environments.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Preprocessing, cleaning, and converting large datasets (text/image/video)
  • Running filtering pipelines to mitigate data risks
  • Packaging and ingesting datasets for ML teams
  • Collaborating with research engineers to ensure high-quality, trustworthy data

Ideal experience:

  • Strong Python skills and hands-on data pipeline development
  • Experience working with unstructured data (image/video/text)
  • Data quality control, validation, and reformatting experience
  • Exposure to ML pipelines or research projects is a plus

The Offer:

  • Location : Central London – 3 days onsite per week
  • Contract : Until December 2025 , with potential to extend - inside IR35 - PAYE
  • Annual Salary : Up to £92,000 pro rata for the contract duration

This is a low-admin, high-impact engineering role embedded in an AI research team. If you're excited about working on automation and AI tooling—let’s talk. Apply Now with your CV or LinkedIn profile for immediate consideration.

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