ML Engineer / Data Scientist

Note: this job advert is for a temporary position somewhere between 2-4 weeks. In Q1 2026 we are planning to open up permanent Machine Learning Engineers / Data Scientists roles.

Responsibilities

Machine Learning Engineers / Data Scientists play a multi-disciplined fullstack ML and MLOps engineering role, in shaping, building, and deploying production-grade predictive, generative, etc AI models, through to real-time inference pipelines, offline batch processing, and machine learning site reliability engineering (MLOps / SRE). They work together with other people in the Product team to solve common goals and to help solve issues in production.

Machine Learning Engineers / Data Scientists responsibilities:

• Build Product: Build and improve production-grade ML models and pipelines with everything from predictive modeling, demand forecasting, inventory optimization, and NLP/LLM-driven automations, to real-time inference endpoints, feature stores, and continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) for machine learning; in a secure, well-tested and performant way that meets our high internal standards for quality, style, maintainability, testing, security and best practices. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Optimise Reliability: Monitor machine learning model health, including data pipelines, underlying services, model registries, feature stores, and inference infrastructure health, to help ensure reliability, low latency, availability, and scalability of the Dot On business critical product; identifying and resolving issues such as data drift, concept drift, and performance degradation. Improve automations, analytics, observability, monitoring and alerting for our ML services, including underlying data stores and GPU/CPU compute infrastructure, so we can better prevent and respond to operational incidents.
• Resolve Incidents: Respond to and resolve urgent operational incidents through on-call rotations (weekdays and weekends, including nights), to help ensure the availability (SLO/SLA/etc) goals of Dot On’s business critical product are met - including taking ownership, from the offset through to root cause analysis, resolution, communications with users, and retrospectives. We are a small, talented team and share this responsibility as a team. Our product is strategically built and monitored to help prevent and mitigate operational incidents.
• Project Ownership: Take ownership of projects; shaping the direction, making decisions, talking to users when needed, and communicating progress.
• Improve Performance: I mprove performance by profiling, latency tuning, model quantization, pruning, and distributed pipeline optimization.
• Fix Product: Fix prioritised issues from the issue tracker in order of severity/priority.
• Continuously Learn: Continuously learn and expand both (a) domain knowledge relevant to the Dot On product (supply chain operations, etc), and (b) technological knowledge relevant to the Dot On product technologies.
• Redefine Retail: Redefine best-in-class (retail, etc) supply chain operations processes so that we can build an opinionated product.

Requirements

• Extensive professional experience spanning applied machine learning in Python.
• Demonstrated to truly be a product builder, taking initiative, self-motivating, self-managing, ensuring attention-to-detail and approaching problems productively, with a big-picture solution orientated mindset.
• Demonstrated to take full ownership of projects, including defining direction and productively making decisions (including making decisions where there may be more than one solution), to engaging with users and communicating progress.
• Demonstrated strong desire for attention to detail, a passion for craftsmanship and building high quality technologies where no corners are cut, and work in accordance with these values.
• Demonstrated strong eye and desire for robust statistical rigor, model evaluation, and exceptional end-to-end user experiences, ensuring data-driven features are intuitive, highly performant and explainable.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate complex technical, architectural, and/or organisational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• Professional experience in improving analytics, observability, monitoring and/or alerting (e.g. data drift, model latency, prediction anomalies) to help prevent and respond to operational incidents.
• Demonstrated to take full ownership of operational incidents, including defining direction and productively making decisions, to engaging with users and communicating progress.
• Professional experience profiling and benchmarking ML pipelines, including underlying services and infrastructure; improving inference throughput, memory footprint, compute utilization, and data pipeline efficiency.
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced, highly agile, intensely iterative startup environment.
• Demonstrated to continuously learn and expand both domain expertise and technological knowledge. Domain expertise is a key foundation of building best-in-class products.
• Extensive professional experience of:

a) Python ML ecosystems (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, XGBoost/LightGBM, Pandas, NumPy), including writing robust unit, integration, and data validation tests. b) MongoDB and/or PostgreSQL. c) Google Cloud, and/or Azure, and/or AWS and/or another mainstream cloud computing services vendor.

• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organisation long-term.
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working in a fast paced, highly agile, intensely iterative startup environment.
• Professional experience of Our Tech Stack & Tools (section below).
• Working knowledge deploying models at scale using modern serving frameworks (Triton Inference Server, vLLM, TorchServe, or Ray Serve).
• Working knowledge building end-to-end forecasting, replenishment, or demand planning models specifically designed for supply chain, warehousing, or retail logistics.
• Working knowledge of fine-tuning, evaluating, and deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures securely in production.
• Working knowledge of edge ML and on-device inference optimization (ONNX Runtime, CoreML, TensorFlow Lite) for mobile and desktop runtimes.
• Working knowledge of designing, building, and maintaining automated feature stores (e.g., Feast, Hopsworks) and model registries (e.g., MLflow, Weights & Biases).
• Working knowledge of data streaming and real-time event ingestion technologies (Kafka, Pub/Sub, or Flink).
• Working knowledge of JavaScript/NodeJS or Rust for building auxiliary microservices, databases, and APIs.
• Working knowledge of machine learning reliability engineering (MLOps/SRE), including automated retraining pipelines, data quality tests (Great Expectations), and alerting for distribution shifts.
• Working knowledge of Rust & JavaScript/NodeJS/TypeScript building databases (MongoDB and/or PostgreSQL) and APIs (REST APIs and/or GraphQL APIs).
• Working knowledge of service reliability engineering (SRE), including monitoring and alerting systems, scripting and automation tools, and incident management and troubleshooting techniques.
• Domain expertise and professional experience of building/integrating midmarket and midsize enterprise Ecommerce Platforms, ERPs, WMSs, POS, TMS, OMS and CRM systems, and Payment Platforms.
• Product (SaaS) company experience, preferably enterprise software.
• Experience working in a hybrid or remote working environment.

ERP are Enterprise Resource Planning systems. WMS are Warehouse Management Systems. POS are Point of Sale systems. TMS are Transport Management Systems. OMS are Order Management Systems. CRM are Customer Relationship Management systems.

Our Tech Stack & Tools

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• Flutter/Dart (native mobile/desktop applications), NodeJS/Rust (backend), HTML/JS (doton.io), Python/PyTorch (ML), Terraform
• Hosted on Google Cloud
• Public GraphQL API
• Proprietary native application data synchronization
• Proprietary native application framework technologies
• Proprietary supply chain models
• Monitored via Google Cloud and Sentry
• Google Chat, Google Workspace, Linear

What we offer

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• Interesting and challenging work
• Work-life balance
• Competitive salary
• Either Hybrid Working (working from home in the UK, and with a minimum 1 day per week in office working at our HQ (NP25 3BT, UK)), or In Office working at our HQ (NP25 3BT, UK)
• Permanent, full-time position
• Regular team events
• 33 days holiday

Dot On is an Equal Opportunities Employer

As an equal opportunities employer, Dot On is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Dot On.

Pay: From £70,000.00 per year

Application question(s):

• Are you within 1.5 hours of NP25 3BT and willing to be in office 1+ day a week?

Experience:

• ML Engineering: 5 years (required)

Language:

• English (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Monmouth NP25

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