Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Deliveroo
London
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningSkills: ["Communication","Mentorship","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Senior ML Engineer to own the full ML lifecycle, deploy robust models, and drive high-stakes decision systems in Deliveroo’s Care team. You’ll lead integration of Generative AI, ensure model reliability, collaborate with product managers, and mentor peers while shaping scalable ML foundations across a global organisation.

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Deliveroo
Deliveroo
5 months ago

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

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Job Summary

Senior ML Engineer to own the full ML lifecycle, deploy robust models, and drive high-stakes decision systems in Deliveroo’s Care team. You’ll lead integration of Generative AI, ensure model reliability, collaborate with product managers, and mentor peers while shaping scalable ML foundations across a global organisation.
Location: London
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the full ML lifecycle: Lead the design, development, and productionisation of machine learning models used in customer support and high-stakes decision systems.
  • •Architect for reliability: Build robust monitoring, evaluation, and alerting frameworks to detect model underperformance, drift, or unexpected behaviour in real-time.
  • •Collaborate on product strategy: Partner closely with Product Managers to turn ambiguous customer problems into robust, scalable ML solutions.
  • •Drive technical excellence: Provide technical leadership in areas with unclear ownership, setting the gold standard for ML quality, reliability, and maintainability.
  • •Bridge science and engineering: Work with data scientists and engineers across the global organisation to embed models into high-performance, scalable systems.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Significant experience as an ML Engineer or Data Scientist with the ability to write production-grade Python
  • •Demonstrated ownership of productionising Generative AI workstreams or Agentic AI projects (LLMs, transformers, fine-tuning)
  • •Proven ability to deploy and manage models using Docker, Kubernetes, and CircleCI
  • •Strong foundational knowledge of traditional ML and evaluation techniques with a bias toward simplicity and measurable business impact
  • •Collaborative mindset with experience mentoring peers and solving real-world problems at scale
Experience:Machine learningMl engineering
Skills:CommunicationMentorshipCollaborationProblem-solving
Tech Stack:PythonDockerKubernetesCircleCILLMsTransformersFine-tuning

Company Brief

Deliveroo
Deliveroo is a multinational online food and grocery delivery marketplace connecting consumers, restaurants, retailers and riders via its app and platform, operating across multiple countries with fast local delivery and logistics services.
Industry: Online Marketplaces
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2013
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