Senior Machine Learning Test Engineer United Kingdom in Newcastle upon Tyne

As a Senior Machine Learning QA Engineer in the Research Enablement team, you will work side-by-side with researchers, Machine Learning Engineers and software engineers to define and uphold quality standards for ML systems. You are a quality-focused engineer who is passionate about reliable, repeatable evaluation of ML models and data. Your skills span test strategy, automation, and a little MLOps, with a strong software engineering base. You are excited to collaborate across research and product to ship ML capabilities with clear quality gates. You are comfortable working at the intersection of research and product and are competent in using Autodesk CAD software.

Responsibilities

• Define ML quality strategy and acceptance criteria across data, model, and system levels
• Design and maintain model evaluation suites, metrics, and test datasets
• Evaluate CAD RL model outputs for geometric validity or policy stability
• Define structured rubrics that translate qualitative findings into measurable evaluation gates
• Test ML models from product side API testing
• Automate ML QA workflows using Python and CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Create and maintain test harnesses for ML services and APIs
• Mentor teams on ML QA best practices and consistent evaluation standards
• Build quality gates for training and deployment pipelines (e.g., regression checks, drift detection)
• Contribute to multi-team projects and codebases, ensuring code quality and consistency
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers
• Document and present findings and ideas across the company

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of professional experience in software engineering or QA for ML/AI systems
• Strong programming skills in Python, with experience in test automation
• Familiarity with popular CAD environments tooling
• Proficient in Automation and UAT test suite/framework
• Experience designing QA frameworks or platforms used by multiple teams
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Understanding of software architecture and design patterns
• Ability to work in an agile development environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data validation tooling (e.g., Great Expectations) or labeling workflows
• Familiarity with ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)
• Experience with CI/CD tools and processes
• Experience with data pipelines and orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Metaflow)
• Familiarity with MLOps practices (model monitoring, drift, deployment checks)
• Experience with ML evaluation methods, metrics, and benchmarking
• Passion for learning new technologies and improving existing systems
• Experience with cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
• Experience testing ML services in production environments
• Knowledge of experiment tracking tools (e.g., Comet, MLflow, Weights & Biases)

The Ideal Candidate

• Demonstrates initiative to provide solutions and to learn and develop new technologies
• Comfortable building QA systems from scratch and writing maintainable automation
• Enjoys learning and collaborating across global locations
• Comfortable working in newly forming ambiguous areas
• Comfortable building scalable and maintainable systems that will be relied on by others
• Communicates well with others

Benefits

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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