Machine Learning recruitment connects organisations with the engineers, researchers and technical leaders building production-ready AI systems.
SGI supports contract and permanent hiring across the UK and Europe through a network of 8,742 AI professionals, spanning Generative AI, MLOps, Agentic AI and AI Leadership.
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SGI recruits AI Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, MLOps Engineers, AI Architects, Generative AI Engineers, NLP Engineers, Computer Vision Engineers, Applied AI Scientists, AI Product Managers and Heads of AI across the UK and Europe.
Develop production-ready AI applications that solve complex business problems.
Build and deploy machine learning and generative AI solutions.
Develop APIs, inference pipelines and production workflows.
Optimise model performance and scalability.
Tools & Frameworks: Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, LangChain, FastAPI, Docker
Salary:
UK Permanent: £75k–£120k
DACH/Benelux Permanent: €85k–€140k
Contract: UK £750–£1,000/day, Benelux €800–€1,100/day, Switzerland €900–€1,300/day
Design, train and deploy machine learning models for production environments.
Build feature pipelines and model training workflows.
Improve model accuracy, monitoring and performance.
Collaborate with software engineering and data teams.
Tools & Frameworks: TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, XGBoost, MLflow, Kubeflow
Salary:
UK Permanent: £75k–£120k
DACH/Benelux Permanent: €85k–€140k
Contract: UK £750–£1,000/day, Benelux €800–€1,100/day, Switzerland €900–€1,300/day
Build the infrastructure that enables AI models to move reliably into production.
Develop CI/CD pipelines for machine learning.
Monitor model performance, drift and deployment health.
Automate model lifecycle management.
Tools & Frameworks: Kubernetes, Docker, MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow, Terraform, Azure ML, AWS SageMaker
Salary:
UK Permanent: £75k–£120k
DACH/Benelux Permanent: €85k–€140k
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Define enterprise AI architecture, governance and technical strategy.
Design scalable AI platforms.
Select infrastructure and model architecture.
Lead technical direction across AI programmes.
Tools & Frameworks: Azure AI Foundry, AWS SageMaker, Vertex AI, Kubernetes, LangChain, Vector Databases
Salary:
UK: £90k–£140k
DACH/Benelux: €110k–€160k
Contract: UK £800–£1,200/day, Benelux €850–€1,250/day, Switzerland CHF 1,200–1,800/day
Build production-ready applications using large language models and multimodal AI.
Build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems.
Design prompt engineering strategies.
Integrate AI assistants into enterprise workflows.
Tools & Frameworks: OpenAI API, Claude API, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Pinecone, Weaviate
Salary:
UK: £80k–£130k
DACH/Benelux: €95k–€145k
Contract: UK £700–£1,100/day, Benelux €750–€1,150/day, Switzerland CHF 1,100–1,700/day
Develop natural language processing solutions for enterprise applications.
Build text classification and information extraction models.
Develop conversational AI systems.
Optimise language model performance.
Tools & Frameworks: spaCy, Hugging Face Transformers, NLTK, LangChain, OpenAI API
Salary:
UK: £70k–£110k
DACH/Benelux: €85k–€130k
Contract: UK £600–£950/day, Benelux €650–€1,000/day, Switzerland CHF 1,000–1,500/day
Develop AI systems that interpret images and video.
Build detection and classification models.
Optimise vision pipelines for production.
Deploy computer vision applications.
Tools & Frameworks: OpenCV, PyTorch, TensorFlow, YOLO, Detectron2
Salary:
UK: £75k–£120k
DACH/Benelux: €90k–€140k
Contract: UK £650–£1,000/day, Benelux €700–€1,050/day, Switzerland CHF 1,000–1,600/day
Apply advanced AI research to commercial products and enterprise platforms.
Develop new modelling approaches.
Evaluate emerging AI techniques.
Translate research into production-ready solutions.
Tools & Frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, Hugging Face
Salary:
UK: £90k–£150k
DACH/Benelux: €110k–€170k
Contract: UK £800–£1,300/day, Benelux €850–€1,350/day, Switzerland CHF 1,300–2,000/day
Lead the delivery of AI-enabled products from concept through deployment.
Define product strategy.
Prioritise AI roadmaps.
Coordinate engineering, data and business stakeholders.
Tools & Frameworks: Jira, Azure DevOps, Productboard, Miro, analytics platforms
Salary:
UK: £85k–£140k
DACH/Benelux: €95k–€150k
Contract: UK £700–£1,100/day, Benelux €750–€1,150/day, Switzerland CHF 1,100–1,700/day
Lead AI strategy, technical capability and organisational adoption.
Define AI vision and governance.
Build multidisciplinary AI teams.
Align AI investment with business outcomes.
Tools & Frameworks: Enterprise AI platforms, cloud AI services, MLOps platforms
Salary:
UK: £140k–£250k+
DACH/Benelux: €160k–€300k+
Contract: UK £1,200–£2,000/day, Benelux €1,200–€2,000/day, Switzerland CHF 1,800–3,000/day
Build AI capability with engineers, researchers and technical leaders experienced in developing, deploying and scaling production AI systems.
SGI supports permanent, contract and executive hiring across Generative AI, MLOps, Agentic AI and AI Leadership throughout the UK and Europe.
SGI supports permanent, contract, executive and project-based AI hiring across the UK and Europe.
Each recruitment model is designed around the technical complexity, pace and scale of AI delivery programmes.
Strengthen long-term AI capability through engineers, researchers and technical leaders with proven delivery experience.
What it is: Permanent recruitment focused on technical expertise, production experience and organisational fit, with an average permanent placement time of 12 weeks across specialist Machine Learning roles.
Who it's for: Organisations building internal AI capability.
When to use it: AI Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, AI Architects and AI Leadership appointments.
Expand AI programmes with specialist expertise during product launches, model deployments and transformation projects.
What it is: Specialist contract recruitment with an average contract placement time of 25 days, helping organisations secure experienced AI professionals for business-critical delivery programmes.
Who it's for: Organisations requiring rapid access to specialist AI skills.
When to use it: MLOps, Generative AI, model deployment, platform migration and short-term delivery programmes.
Appoint senior AI leaders responsible for enterprise AI strategy and organisational capability.
What it is: Executive search supporting confidential leadership appointments.
Who it's for: Organisations building or expanding AI leadership functions.
When to use it: Head of AI, AI Director, Chief AI Officer and technical leadership appointments, where a dedicated confidential search, targeted shortlist, market insights and candidate coaching support critical leadership hires.
Deliver complete AI capability through outcome-based project teams.
What it is: SGI supplies project teams aligned to defined deliverables, governance and agreed outcomes.
Who it's for: Organisations delivering large-scale AI transformation programmes.
When to use it: Enterprise AI implementation, platform modernisation and cross-functional AI delivery.
SGI delivered specialist AI talent to support a large-scale transformation programme, providing access to niche expertise across emerging technologies and enterprise innovation initiatives.
SGI's Machine Learning network includes 8,742 professionals spanning Generative AI, MLOps, Agentic AI and AI Leadership.
This specialist community supports organisations at every stage of AI adoption, from building foundational capability to scaling enterprise AI programmes.
Explore opportunities across AI engineering, machine learning, MLOps, AI architecture and technical leadership.
SGI connects professionals with organisations investing in enterprise AI programmes, long-term innovation and production-ready machine learning capability.
SGI recruits AI Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, MLOps Engineers, AI Architects, Generative AI Engineers, NLP Engineers, Computer Vision Engineers, Applied AI Scientists, AI Product Managers and Heads of AI across permanent, contract and executive appointments throughout the UK and Europe.
Recruitment supports organisations building research capability, production AI platforms and technical leadership teams.
Generative AI, MLOps, Agentic AI and AI Leadership continue to represent the strongest areas of hiring activity, with organisations prioritising professionals who have delivered production AI systems rather than experimental proof-of-concept projects.
Experience with modern AI frameworks, cloud platforms and machine learning operations remains a consistent requirement across enterprise hiring.
Yes. SGI recruits AI professionals throughout the UK, DACH, Benelux and Switzerland, supporting organisations building AI capability across engineering, research, platform and leadership functions.
Recruitment covers permanent, contract, executive and project-based appointments, providing access to specialist AI talent across multiple European markets.
AI and Machine Learning engineering roles typically pay £75,000 to £120,000 on permanent contracts in the UK, rising to €85,000 to €140,000 across DACH and Benelux, with UK contract day rates from £750 to £1,000.
SGI benchmarks salaries by seniority, specialism and location, and confirms guidance for senior and specialist AI roles on request before publication.
