Senior MLOps / ML Platform Engineer

Senior MLOps / ML Platform Engineer – SaaS / AI Platform – BiopharmaRemote – Europe / UK based We are supporting a search for a Senior MLOps / ML Platform Engineer within a specialist life sciences software company that is building a SaaS platform for biopharma and scientific teams. This is a platform role rather than a model-building one. The company's product relies on AI and scientific models, and you would own the platform that sits behind them, from how workflows are run and experiments are tracked to how every result can be reproduced and trusted long after it was first produced. The scientists and modellers are effectively your users, so you would work closely with them as well as with backend, data and infrastructure engineers to make complex ML workflows reliable, traceable and easy to run at scale. It would suit an engineer who naturally thinks long-term, someone who will fix today's problem but then design it out properly so it doesn't come back six months later. Role focusOwning the ML platform architecture and setting the standards and tooling that other teams build onBuilding and orchestrating ML workflows using Flyte, Airflow or similar toolsRunning experiment tracking, model registries and artifact management, for example with MLflowMaking sure reproducibility and lineage hold up, so older models and runs remain usable as the platform evolvesValidating and monitoring model behaviour once models are in productionManaging the Kubernetes, Docker and cloud infrastructure behind training and inference workloadsBuilding CI/CD for both ML and data pipelinesImproving observability, governance and reliability across the whole platformWorking with scientists and engineers to turn their recurring needs into proper platform capabilities What we are looking for5+ years' experience in MLOps, ML platform, data platform or platform engineeringA software engineering mindset first and foremost, combined with genuine curiosity about the science behind the productHands-on experience building platforms that other teams rely on, rather than only working on top of themStrong Python skills and solid production engineering practicesPractical experience with Kubernetes, Docker and CI/CDExperience with workflow orchestration and experiment trackingA good understanding of how data behaves, including pipelines, quality, versioning and lineageEnough ML knowledge to work closely and confidently with model developersComfortable making decisions, stating your assumptions and explaining trade-offs clearlyMotivated by platform work itself, and keen to keep growing in this direction long term Useful extrasExperience with Flyte, MLflow, DVC, Kubeflow or similar toolsTerraform or other infrastructure-as-code toolsAWS, Azure or GCPData engineering experience with Spark, Airflow, dbt or streamingWorking with large, complex or scientific datasetsExposure to biotech, pharma or other regulated environments, with GxP a plus This isn't a generic DevOps role with ML added to the title, and it isn't a data science role either. The company needs someone who can own the platform foundation behind models used in a regulated scientific environment, and who wants to shape it as the product grows. If this sounds like you, please apply here. And if you know someone strong across MLOps, ML platform or data platform engineering, I'd be grateful if you could pass it on.