Senior AI / ML Production Engineer

Dublin

Data Science

Contract

Our client, a global life sciences organization based in Dublin, Ireland, is hiring a Senior AI / ML Production Engineer to join their team remotely on a 12-month daily-rate contract. The successful candidate will transform experimental AI and machine learning models developed by internal Data Science teams into secure, scalable, production-grade solutions for clinical trial environments.

Responsibilities

Transform prototype Python algorithms and machine learning models into reliable, production-ready APIs, microservices and automated data pipelines.
Design, build and maintain enterprise-grade CI/CD and MLOps pipelines supporting automated testing, deployment, model versioning and monitoring.
Refactor and optimise research code to improve runtime performance, scalability and memory efficiency when processing large clinical datasets.
Collaborate with backend engineering teams and cloud architects to integrate AI services into existing AWS and Azure environments.
Implement model monitoring, telemetry, performance tracking and drift detection to maintain long-term reliability and reproducibility in production.
Ensure all production systems and pipelines comply with GDPR, HIPAA, GxP and other applicable data privacy and regulatory requirements.

Skillset

At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including a minimum of 3 years focused on production ML engineering or MLOps.
Expertise in Python, with experience using frameworks and libraries such as Pandas, PyTorch, TensorFlow, FastAPI or Flask.
Hands-on experience with MLOps and data orchestration tools such as MLflow, Databricks, Kubeflow, Airflow or DVC.
Strong experience with AWS or Azure, alongside Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or Jenkins.
Strong understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases, Spark, distributed computing and large-scale complex data processing.
Previous experience within life sciences, pharmaceuticals, clinical research, healthcare or another highly regulated industry is a bonus.