We’re looking for a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead the AI behind Altana Nexus, our agentic platform for global trade. You’ll work on a continuous stream of public and proprietary trade data (shipments, customs filings, trade documents), and build the models and AI agents that turn it into real-time decisions on risk, compliance and enforcement for governments and the world’s largest companies Drive the technical direction for agentic systems. Define the architecture and roadmap for the models and agentic systems that process trade data as it arrives (shipments, customs declarations, invoices, bills of lading) and turn it into risk, classification and compliance decisions in real time Build the pipeline from ingestion to decision. Lead the design of reliable, cost-efficient systems for ingestion, document understanding, entity resolution, inference and routing across models, at the scale of global trade Adapt models to trade. Use analyst feedback, production outcomes and agent traces to fine-tune and post-train models (SFT, DPO, RL with domain graders) where it measurably beats prompting, and keep every model improving over time Design the observability and feedback stack. Build the evals, tracing and feedback loops that decide what ships and catch regressions in production Lead beyond your team. Mentor senior engineers, raise the technical bar across Engineering, and help shape how we hire and level ML talent Shape the product and the business. Work with software engineers, data scientists, product managers and customers to generate new business ideas and turn ambiguous problems into shipped capabilities Technologies we love Languages: Python, Spark Tools: Docker, Git, Kubernetes, Swagger/OpenAPI, AWS, Azure Datastores: Databricks, OpenSearch, Postgres ML Tools: PyTorch, Hugging Face, FAISS, MLflow LLM Tools: vLLM, LangGraph, LangSmith/Braintrust, frontier model APIs Benefits Competitive base salary: We offer competitive base salaries to recognize the incredible work our employees do. Learning
Staff Machine Learning Engineer in Northumberland employer: Altana
At Altana, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that fosters a vibrant and collaborative work culture, where innovation meets purpose. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through continuous learning opportunities and the chance to work on impactful projects that shape the future of global trade. Located in a dynamic environment, we offer competitive benefits and a diverse workplace that values every individual's contribution, making it an ideal place for those seeking meaningful and rewarding careers.
