Senior Machine Learning Engineer

**RECRUITING**Contract OR PERM Open to relocators Job Title – Machine Learning EngineerSalary – N/AJob Type - Contract Or Perm Location – Abu DhabiStart Date – ASAPWe are working on a brand-new project, which is an Innovation Hub/Ai Lab backed by a large bank in the region.The candidate my client want is essentially a production-focused Machine Learning Engineer with 3–7 years' experience, rather than a pure Data Scientist. The major requirements I would source against are:3–7 years' experience building production-grade, scalable AI/ML systems.Very strong Python + ML engineering capability.Experience with supervised/unsupervised ML, deep learning, NLP, Computer Vision and/or GenAI/LLMs — you don't necessarily need every area but should have genuine depth.Building end-to-end ML pipelines: ingestion → transformation → training → validation → deployment.Production model serving and APIs using FastAPI / Flask.Strong ML system architecture understanding.Experience with real-time and/or batch inference and model performance optimisation.Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD.Exposure to MLflow and/or Kubeflow for lifecycle management.Deployment onto AWS or Azure.Experience training/deploying traditional ML, neural networks and Agentic AI models.Ideally experience fine-tuning SLMs/LLMs and building more complex AI architectures.Thanks,Ollie