Senior Machine Learning Engineer - £500 - Inside IR35 - London Hybrid

RecOps is partnered with a leading consultancy to support an AI/Machine Learning project for one of their end clients in the insurance sector. This role is £500 per day, inside IR35, and requires 1 day per week onsite in Central London. Key Skills required: Strong commercial experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, ML Engineer, AI Engineer or Python-focused MLE. Excellent hands-on Python engineering skills, with strong fundamentals across OOP, async/concurrency, decorators, design patterns and clean code. Comfortable with Python-heavy technical discussions and building/debugging code without heavy reliance on AI tooling or Internet-based support. Experience building clean, well-tested, production-quality AI/ML systems. Experience designing, building and deploying machine learning or GenAI systems into production. Strong experience with testing, validation and Python unit testing, ideally using pytest. Experience with GenAI/LLMs, including RAG pipelines, embeddings, vector databases and agentic workflows. Ability to evaluate and compare different models or approaches, using relevant metrics and clear technical reasoning. Understanding of LLM application risks, including hallucination detection, output validation, prompt injection and jailbreak mitigation. Experience with MLOps, CI/CD, model monitoring, versioning and life cycle management. Good cloud, Docker and/or Kubernetes experience. Ability to work closely with data scientists, software engineers, DevOps teams and ..... full job details .....