Top Machine Learning Jobs in Edinburgh

Lead a financial crime data science team focused on detecting, preventing, and mitigating financial crime. Partner with Product, Risk, Engineering, and control owners to shape data strategy, generate strategic insights, improve product decisions, and deliver rigorous analytics and machine learning solutions. Hire, develop, and retain data scientists and analysts while supporting innovation through business intelligence, experimentation, causal inference, and self-serve analytics.

Lead real-world evidence biostatistical analyses using large-scale healthcare data to support clinical development, regulatory strategy, HEOR, and payer decisions. Design observational studies and target trial emulations, apply causal inference, statistical learning, machine learning, and NLP, and build reproducible Python/R workflows. Collaborate with clinical, epidemiology, data engineering, and HEOR teams while translating findings for technical and non-technical stakeholders. Support regulatory submissions, governance, audits, and scientific dissemination.

Provide technical leadership for production AI and machine learning systems, including generative AI, intelligent agents, predictive modeling, and optimization. Design scalable AI platforms, APIs, services, data pipelines, and infrastructure; establish evaluation, testing, observability, security, and governance standards; optimize system performance, reliability, and cost; and partner with multidisciplinary teams to deploy and operate solutions. Mentor engineers and influence technical strategy across the organization.

Design and develop cloud-based data platform solutions, including data pipelines, ingestion, transformation, cleansing, integrations, and data applications. Translate technical requirements into detailed designs, write reliable code, develop test automation, troubleshoot operational issues, tune batch and real-time processing, secure cloud data platforms, and implement CI/CD and monitoring. The role also involves advising client developers and defining efficient operational processes.

Drive end-to-end B2B sales of Data and AI consulting services in the US market. Responsibilities include prospecting, pipeline generation, solution selling, account planning, business-case development, executive stakeholder engagement, partner collaboration, and closing enterprise and mid-market opportunities involving Databricks, Lakehouse modernization, data engineering, analytics, AI/ML, and GenAI.

Lead pricing ML for Rosso: define technical direction, build production-grade price-optimisation and probabilistic imbalance models, bridge modelling and MLOps, and communicate model decisions across teams.

Supports the design, development, and deployment of applied AI systems under senior engineer guidance. Contributes to AI feature development, follows engineering standards, participates in code reviews and technical discussions, and builds expertise across modern AI and cloud technologies. The role emphasizes learning, collaboration, and progression toward more senior engineering responsibilities.

Leads a global team of Defence and Intelligence pre-sales solution architects. Develops technical sales strategies, designs geospatial and Earth Observation solutions for military and ISR workflows, leads customer demonstrations and pilots, supports complex government procurements, and partners with sales, product, engineering, professional services, and defense organizations. Requires deep defense intelligence expertise, geospatial architecture knowledge, leadership experience, and active or obtainable security clearance.

Lead end-to-end machine learning systems across data, training, fine-tuning, evaluation, inference, deployment, and monitoring. Build scalable GPU-based infrastructure and reliable production pipelines for large models, optimize performance and cost, and partner with research and application engineering to translate model capabilities into product improvements. Provide hands-on technical leadership, resolve production issues, and ensure measurable, safe, and maintainable ML iterations.

Lead the execution of production ML systems: build data pipelines, training workflows, evaluation and inference infrastructure, fine-tune large models (LoRA/QLoRA/SFT/DPO), optimize GPU deployments, and integrate ML into products while ensuring robustness, safety, and reliable user-facing performance.

Lead implementation of production-grade ML systems: data pipelines, training/evaluation workflows, scalable GPU inference, model fine-tuning (LoRA/QLoRA/SFT/DPO), deployment, and monitoring. Collaborate with product and application teams to ship reliable, efficient, and safe ML-powered features for real users while managing latency, cost, and robustness constraints.

The role involves building end-to-end production-grade ML systems, optimizing pipelines, integrating models into applications, and maintaining data systems.

Provides technical leadership for production AI and machine learning systems, including generative AI, intelligent agents, predictive models, and optimization. Establishes architecture, engineering standards, evaluation and observability practices, and reusable AI platforms. Partners across business, engineering, data, risk, and control teams to deploy and operate scalable systems while optimizing performance, reliability, security, and cost. Mentors engineers and influences technical strategy.

Lead technically complex product work on Rosso, embedding with ML, data science and engineering teams to turn business and customer needs into shipped features. Define success criteria for models/forecasts, manage edge cases and operational risk, and prioritize work across portfolio, forecasting, pricing optimisation and related systems.

Manage machine learning infrastructure upgrades for a hyperscale Google data centre project in Finland and Norway. Responsibilities include contractor appointment, scope and change-order management, scheduling, materials logistics, risk mitigation, coordination with data centre construction and fibre teams, and mechanical and electrical commissioning through L3 and L4. The role requires strong data centre construction expertise, technical project management, supply chain coordination, forecasting, reporting, and significant international travel.

Lead Mitek’s EMEA revenue strategy and execution across direct enterprise and channel sales for identity and fraud prevention platforms. Own regional growth, forecasting, pipeline, account expansion, partner ecosystem development, customer adoption, and revenue targets. Manage enterprise sales and account teams, negotiate complex multi-year agreements, support regulated-market customers, and report performance to the CRO while collaborating with Product, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Customer Success, and global channel teams.

Serve as the technical SME for compliance automation, overseeing GRC control mapping, evidence collection, integrations, and continuous monitoring. Partner with engineering teams to embed compliance into workflows, support audits and framework rollouts, assign control ownership, reduce audit burden, and maintain audit readiness. Lead cross-functional initiatives and communicate compliance risks, control status, and progress to technical and leadership audiences. The role requires cybersecurity framework expertise, program management, cloud and API fluency, GRC platform experience, and familiarity with AI-enabled compliance workflows.

Reviews and evaluates engineering, infrastructure, and platform documents and work products for technical accuracy, completeness, clarity, consistency, and relevance. Provides structured feedback, identifies errors and gaps, compares technical approaches, and follows defined evaluation frameworks. Requires independent work, strong communication, analytical ability, and professional engineering judgment. The role is fully remote and supports varied technical evaluation projects as an independent contractor.

Own the full lifecycle of machine learning features, including research, experimentation, training, deployment, monitoring, and production optimization. Build ML infrastructure for payment routing, establish reliable MLOps practices, partner with product, data, engineering, and customers, mentor engineers, and guide technical priorities. Apply statistical thinking, A/B testing, pragmatic model evaluation, and reinforcement learning concepts in a remote-first environment.

Own the full lifecycle of machine learning features, including research, experimentation, training, deployment, monitoring, and production infrastructure. Build smart payment-routing models and MLOps practices, partner with product, data, engineering, and customers, evaluate outcomes statistically, mentor engineers, and help define ML technical direction and reliable development processes.

Own an AI stockbroking product vertical end-to-end, including strategy, metrics, roadmap, technical design, delivery, and launch. Partner with engineering on APIs, data flows, ledgering, security, scalability, and failure handling. Integrate KYC, transaction monitoring, privacy, licensing, and regulatory requirements. Apply AI with evaluation, safeguards, and human oversight while coordinating Engineering, Design, Compliance, Operations, Treasury, and Finance.

Own an AI investing product vertical end-to-end, including strategy, roadmap, technical design, delivery, metrics, and launch. Partner with engineering on APIs, data flows, ledgering, reconciliation, security, scalability, and failure handling. Embed regulatory requirements across KYC, monitoring, limits, privacy, and licensing. Apply AI with evaluation, safeguards, human oversight, and reliability controls while aligning compliance, operations, finance, treasury, and design.

Owns an AI neobank product vertical end-to-end, including strategy, roadmap, technical design, delivery, regulatory requirements, AI evaluation, reliability, and launch. Partners with engineering, compliance, operations, treasury, finance, and design across payments, remittance, insurance, wealth, and trading products. Must balance correctness, scalability, security, user experience, cost, speed, and regulatory constraints in high-consequence financial systems.

Owns roadmap execution and capability definition for an Agentic AI Platform. Translates AI platform strategy into requirements, prioritized roadmaps, reusable agent orchestration and lifecycle capabilities, governance controls, observability, and scalable platform patterns. Partners with engineering, architecture, data, security, legal, compliance, customer success, professional services, and customers. Measures adoption, reliability, safety, quality, cost, and business impact while balancing technical feasibility, security, compliance, and customer value.

Build and extend the platform layer: design shared backend services and APIs, improve reliability and correctness, collaborate with product teams to remove platform bottlenecks, mentor engineers, shape architecture and migrations, and write high-quality fullstack code with a backend focus.