Senior ML Engineer

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Senior ML Engineer building production ML features and smart payment routing. Shaping Primer’s machine-learning foundations for its global payments infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the full lifecycle of ML-powered features, from research and testing through training, deployment, and production monitoring
  • Productionise smart routing decisions across the payment flow
  • Build ML infrastructure including versioning, CI/CD, and observability
  • Partner with product, data, and engineering to turn use cases into measured outcomes
  • Apply pragmatic, impact-first experimentation and model evaluation
  • Mentor engineers adopting ML techniques
  • Speak directly with customers to validate ideas and test solutions against real usage
  • Help set technical direction and prioritise ML use cases
  • Establish reliable and repeatable ML patterns and practices at Primer
  • Report to engineering leadership while the ML function develops

Requirements:

  • Senior experience in ML engineering, data science, or applied research, with real production deployments via API, batch, or streaming
  • Ability to design and run experiments and A/B tests and interpret their results
  • Strong Python skills
  • Hands-on experience with scikit-learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Keras
  • Solid grounding in modern software engineering, infrastructure, and data tooling
  • Understanding of MLOps challenges across the full ML lifecycle
  • Familiarity with reinforcement learning, including multi-armed or contextual bandits
  • Cloud experience; AWS preferred, with GCP or Azure acceptable
  • Comfortable researching, developing, and productionising independently
  • Payments or e-commerce exposure is a plus, not a prerequisite

Benefits:

  • Competitive share options
  • Uncapped holiday, with 25 days minimum to be taken
  • Co-working space access across major cities
  • Workations and company retreat
  • The best equipment for your role
  • £500 towards your home office setup
  • Generous learning budget
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Additional perks and benefits depending on location
  • Fully remote and globally distributed work arrangement