Machine Learning Engineer

Machine Learning/AI Engineer | £850/day Inside IR35 | 6-month initial contract | London Industry: Technology Location: London Job Type: Contract - 6-month initial This programme delivers a production-grade enterprise agentic AI platform, with MCP as the extensibility layer. Responsibilities • Design and build MCP servers and tools that expose enterprise systems and workflows to AI agents. • Implement Skills that combine tools, data, and reasoning into structured, repeatable, and governed workflows. • Contribute to the internal AI assistant’s agentic framework, including planning, tool invocation, and orchestration logic. • Develop secure API wrappers for systems that lack appropriate authentication, authorisation, or entitlement mechanisms. • Work closely with product engineering teams in a “build-for” model, transferring knowledge and establishing reusable engineering patterns. • Shape the developer experience for MCP and Skills, including templates, contribution standards, and documentation. • Collaborate with Quality Engineering and SRE teams to ensure solutions meet requirements for reliability, governance, and operational readiness. Skills & Experience Required • Strong Python development experience in production environments. • Hands-on experience with LLMs, agent frameworks, and agentic reasoning patterns. • Practical understanding of Model Context Protocol (MCP), including tool and server design patterns. • Experience building REST APIs, ideally using FastAPI. • Familiarity with prompt engineering and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures. • Experience with containerisation and Kubernetes-based deployment environments. • Ability to operate across platform, product, and governance boundaries in large enterprise settings.