Senior AI / ML Production Engineer

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.