Senior AI Engineer - Machine Vision

Senior AI Engineer

£782/day (Inside IR35) | 12-Month Contract | London (2 Days Onsite)

Overview

The Clinical Platforms team is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to help develop and deploy advanced AI solutions that power large-scale medical imaging initiatives across the business.

This is a highly technical engineering role sitting at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Cloud Engineering. You'll be responsible for building, deploying and maintaining production-grade AI systems that enable researchers and scientists to extract value from complex imaging datasets and AI-driven workflows.

The team is looking for a hands-on engineer with strong Python, Machine Learning and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience who can take ownership of AI solutions from design through to production.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing, developing and deploying AI-powered applications and machine learning systems
• Building and maintaining infrastructure supporting AI, machine learning and computer vision workloads
• Creating end-to-end AI pipelines covering data preparation, model training, evaluation and deployment
• Working with large-scale medical imaging datasets in cloud environments
• Deploying, monitoring and optimising production AI models and services
• Developing AI solutions for complex imaging and clinical research use cases
• Monitoring, troubleshooting and improving the performance of production AI systems
• Collaborating with engineers, researchers and data scientists across multiple projects

Key Skills & ExperienceEssential*

• Strong commercial experience with Python development
• Experience building and deploying AI or Machine Learning solutions into production
• Strong Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience
• Experience designing and delivering production-grade AI platforms and systems
• Strong understanding of systems architecture and cloud infrastructure
• Experience building end-to-end AI and machine learning solutions
• Proven track record delivering engineering and AI projects into production

Highly Desirable

• Computer Vision or Image Processing experience
• Exposure to Machine Learning platforms and MLOps environments
• Experience working with image datasets at scale
• PyTorch, OpenCV, NumPy or related technologies
• BigQuery and wider GCP ecosystem experience
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code or GitHub Copilot

Nice to Have

• Medical imaging experience
• DICOM or PACS exposure
• Healthcare, biotech or pharmaceutical industry experience

Ideal Background

We're open to candidates from a variety of backgrounds, including:

• Senior AI Engineers
• Machine Learning Engineers
• Computer Vision Engineers
• AI Platform Engineers
• Applied AI Engineers
• Research Engineers
• Software Engineers with strong AI, Cloud and Machine Learning experience

The key requirement is strong, hands-on commercial AI engineering experience and the ability to design, build and support complex production systems.

Why Join?

• Work on cutting-edge AI and medical imaging initiatives
• Contribute to platforms supporting drug discovery and clinical research
• Opportunity to work across AI Engineering, Machine Learning and Computer Vision projects
• Long-term 12-month contract with strong extension potential

Contract Details

• Role: Senior AI Engineer
• Contract Length: 12 Months
• Rate: Up to £782/day
• IR35 Status: Inside IR35
• Location: London
• Working Pattern: 2 Days Onsite Per Week

If your background sits across AI Engineering, Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Cloud Platforms, I'd be happy to share further details.