AI / Machine Learning Engineer - Document AI /Intelligent Document in Sheffield

We are currently looking to onboard multiple AI / Machine Learning Engineers on a contract basis for a major bank. The AI /Machine Learning Engineers will be supporting the Onboarding/KYC value stream in Technology as part of a major transformation initiaitve to drive innovative technologies, improve customer experience and infrastructure resilience within the bank.

This is expected to be an initial 6 month contract (inside IR35) with excellent potential for longevity as the role is part of a flagship 2-3 year transformation. The banks offices are based in Sheffield with an expectation for minimum 2 days per week in office.

AI / Machine Learning Engineer Key Responsibilities:

• Building production-ready models to drive content extraction and classification from images and text-based sources.
• Working closely with business teams to understand requirements and iteratively design and develop solutions.
• Collaborative with product managers, technical teams.
• Create, test and iterate new and existing products and features.
• Designing and building Python/ML/OCR-based components.
• Not only supporting the development of the product, but also the full lifecycle including the deployment, testing and production support of the application.

Key Experience:

• MUST HAVE Strong experience in Document AI/Intelligent document processing using traditional models and Generative AI – particularly in using open source models for achieving business outcomes.
• Minimum 2-3 years practical (not theoretical) experience in Machine Learning
• Experience delivering to production in python, with a focus on machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, generative AI, image processing and OCR all additional positives.
• Experience with some of the following frameworks – TensorFlow, Pytorch, Hugging face, Spacy, OpenCV, Regex or equivalents.
• Experience delivering safe code to production, focusing on cybersecurity and resilience of the application and APIs.