AI & Emerging technologies

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

CGG

Crawley · West Sussex · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you will lead production-grade AI initiatives, spanning data ingestion to deployment, ensuring reliable, reproducible models. You join a global AI team applying LLMs and agentic workflows to real-world solutions, driving business impact. You will tackle end-to-end AI development, data infrastructure, and orchestration to deliver scalable, domain-specific AI systems. This is an opportunity to shape AI-enabled products at the intersection of science and industry.

Pay / Benefits
  • Competitive salary
  • Bonus scheme
  • 22 days annual leave + holiday buy/sell
  • Hybrid work with 2 days at home
  • Company pension with employer contribution
  • Unmind wellbeing app access
Responsibilities
  • LLM/NLP model development: deploy and fine-tune domain-specific LLMs; build evaluation and benchmarking pipelines; apply reinforcement learning and knowledge representation to end-to-end problems
  • Data infrastructure: collaborate to build data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, versioning, and labeling; ensure reproducible data loops
  • AI workflow design & orchestration: orchestrate multi-model AI solutions to achieve state-of-the-art results; partner with production and software teams; architect multi-model agentic workflows (function calling, tool usage, RAG, code interpreters) in production systems
  • Leadership: provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers to foster learning and innovation
Key requirements
  • Master’s or Ph.D in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or related technical disciplines
  • Strong programming skills in C, C++, R, Java, or Python
  • Advanced understanding of LLM/VLM architectures, post-training methods, and evaluation pipelines
  • Experience with data and system engineering for large-scale model workflows
  • Proven experience with TensorFlow or PyTorch DL frameworks
  • Experience with tools: Cursor, Windsurf, Trae, Gemini CLI, Claude Code, or Codex
  • Experience deploying LLMs to real-world use cases is a plus
  • Strong communication and project management skills
  • Enthusiastic about learning and adapting to new challenges
  • problem-solving mindset
  • effective communication with stakeholders
  • leadership and mentorship
  • LLM/VLM architectures
  • fine-tuning and RL for models
  • data pipelines and data versioning

Reference: WJ-747_31185691 · Posted 01 Nov 2026

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