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Machine Learning Engineer - Glasgow
£70,000 - 90,000
Apex Resources Ltd
Payne Street 20, Glasgow
£70,000 - 90,000
Requirements
Must:
- 2+ years post-graduate experience as a Software Engineer / AI Engineer / ML Engineer working on production AI systems.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: clean code, testing, version control and debugging in Python or similar.
- A Masters degree (or above) in Computer Science, Mathematics, AI/ML, Data Science, or a closely related discipline from a top-tier university.
- Demonstrable experience with applied AI/ML or LLM-based systems (projects, internships, or commercial work), not just academic exposure.
- Comfort working in a fast-moving, small-team environment where you take ownership from idea through to production release.
- (Nice to have) Experience building agentic AI systems (tool-calling, multi-step planning, self-improvement loops) or autonomous agents.
- (Nice to have) Knowledge of advanced agentic patterns and concepts like Model Context Protocol or similar orchestration standards.
- (Nice to have) Exposure to financial, tax or accounting data and the nuances of working in regulated or data-sensitive environments.
Technologies
AI
Apex
CI/CD
LLM
Machine Learning
REST
Responsibilities
- Design and implement agentic AI workflows that coordinate LLMs, tools and reasoning engines to handle end-to-end finance and tax processes.
- Build robust back-end services and APIs to support document ingestion, data extraction, multi-step reasoning and autonomous execution.
- Work with modern LLM tooling (advanced prompting, retrieval-augmented generation, tool calling, evaluation frameworks) to optimise accuracy, latency and reliability for real client workloads.
- Collaborate with product managers, domain SMEs (tax and finance) and fellow AI engineers to deliver features from concept through to production.
- Contribute to code quality, observability and secure engineering practices in a regulated, data-sensitive environment.
Description
We are a leading Glasgow-based AI firm dedicated to building next-generation agentic AI products that automate complex tax and finance workflows for UK accountancy firms and in-house finance teams. Our platform leverages large language models and intelligent orchestration to streamline processes, enabling specialists to focus on higher-value advice. We offer a hybrid role within a small, high-calibre engineering team, providing opportunities for direct impact, innovation in cutting-edge AI solutions, and growth within a scaling AI product business.
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