Senior Applied Machine Learning Engineer

OnBuy Manchester, England May 23, 2026

Type Full Time
Pay £65,000 – £75,000
Work Hybrid
Level Senior

Senior Applied Machine Learning Engineer focuses on inspect, maintain, repair, install, design, or improve technical systems according to the role.

What the role involves

  • Inspect, maintain, repair, install, design, or improve technical systems according to the role.
  • Diagnose issues, complete checks, and keep records or handovers accurate.

Skills and requirements

  • Experience building and shipping production data or ML systems with measurable business impact.
  • Strong Python and SQL skills, with the ability to work across data pipelines end-to-end.
  • Experience working with messy, unstructured or semi-structured data (e.g. text, images, product data).
  • Ability to design systems that make decisions, not just predictions.

Confirmed role details

  • The salary on offer for this role is £65000- £75000 depending on experience.
  • 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays.
  • 1 extra day off for your Birthday.
  • This role is UK remote or Hybrid if you live near our Manchester or Bournemouth's offices.

Candidate fit

  • technical judgement, safe working habits, careful diagnostics, and practical problem-solving

Additional role context

  • We have recently been named one of the UK's fastest-growing tech companies in the Sunday Times 100 Tech list.
  • Build and evolve the systems and decision logic that enable this, and iterate based on real-world performance and data.
  • Build directly using SQL and Python on top of.
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