Machine Learning Engineer

Junior / Mid-Level Machine Learning Engineer (Accepting Grads also)

Location: Fully Remote, Scotland based candidates only

Salary: Up to £50,000

Recruitment Partner: Searchability

The Opportunity

Searchability is working with a growing AI technology startup to recruit a Junior / Mid-Level Machine Learning Engineer.

The company is developing an AI-powered platform that helps organisations find and win funding and contracts , using AI and machine learning to identify relevant opportunities and support the process of creating applications and bids.

This is a particularly good opportunity for someone who wants to build their career within AI/ML in an early-stage startup environment . We're open to candidates ranging from high-calibre graduates through to ML Engineers with a few years of commercial experience .

The role is fully remote, but you must be based in Scotland .

The Role

You'll join a small technical team where you'll have the opportunity to work on real-world machine learning problems and contribute directly to the development of the company's AI platform.

Rather than being restricted to one small part of a large engineering organisation, you'll have the opportunity to get involved across the ML lifecycle, learn quickly and see your work make it into a customer-facing product.

We're particularly interested in people who are curious, ambitious and hungry to develop , and who genuinely want the pace and responsibility that comes with working for a startup/scale-up.

What You'll Be Doing

• Developing and improving machine learning and AI capabilities
• Working primarily with Python and ML technologies
• Contributing to NLP and language-focused machine learning problems
• Working with data to train, test and improve models
• Helping turn ML ideas and experiments into features used within a real product
• Evaluating model performance and identifying opportunities for improvement
• Working closely with experienced engineers and the wider business
• Researching and experimenting with new approaches where appropriate
• Taking increasing ownership of technical problems as you develop
• Keeping up to date with developments across AI, ML and LLM technologies

What We're Looking For

We're flexible on professional experience and will consider both graduates and experienced Junior/Mid-Level ML Engineers .

You'll ideally have:

• A strong academic background in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering or another highly technical subject
• Good Python programming ability
• Understanding of fundamental machine learning concepts
• Exposure to technologies such as PyTorch, TensorFlow or similar ML frameworks
• An interest in NLP, LLMs and modern AI technologies
• Strong problem-solving and analytical ability
• A genuine desire to build commercial AI products
• The motivation to learn quickly and take ownership
• An interest in working within an early-stage startup/scale-up environment

For graduate candidates, we're particularly interested in seeing strong academic projects, dissertations, internships, research or personal projects demonstrating practical ML ability.

For candidates with commercial experience, hands-on experience developing, deploying or improving ML models in production would be highly valuable.

What's on Offer

• Salary up to £50,000
• Fully remote working
• Must be based in Scotland
• Open to graduates through to Mid-Level ML Engineers
• Opportunity to build commercial AI/ML experience from an early stage
• Work directly on a growing AI-powered product
• Exposure to Python, machine learning, NLP and LLM technologies
• Significant opportunity to learn and take on more responsibility
• Join a small team where your work can have a visible impact on the product and company
• Genuine startup environment with the opportunity to grow alongside the business