Principal Software Engineer – MLOps

Archer · Recruitment agency
ContractDevOps€600-800/day (EUR)Galway, Ireland · Remote within Ireland · Hybrid
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Employment type
Contract
Workplace
Hybrid
Day rate
€600-800/day (EUR)
Category
DevOps

Technologies & skills

Primary technologies

Cloud & infrastructure

Other technical skills

What you'll be doing

Join a leading insurance company in Ireland as a Principal Software Engineer – MLOps, focusing on developing computer vision and machine learning solutions. This hybrid contract role offers the chance to work with top-tier talent and contribute to a large-scale AI transformation.

  • Build and deploy Computer Vision and ML pipelines using Hugging Face models and containerized APIs, ideally with FastAPI.
  • Take models from experimentation into production.
  • Contribute to architecture and technical design.
  • Promote strong engineering, testing and CI/CD practices across the business.

Key requirements

Must-have

  • 8+ years of Machine Learning experience
  • Strong software engineering and technical leadership experience
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker and AWS
  • Experience integrating ML solutions with labelling/annotation workflows

Experience: 8+ years

Role signals

Technical focus
DevOps
Leadership
Mentoring
Architecture / system design
Indicated in the listing
Hands-on vs management
Mixed

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Full job description

Principal Software Engineer – MLOps

  • Long-Term Hybrid Daily Rate Contract: €600 – €800 per day

  • Lead a MLOps team developing computer vision and machine learning solutions for underwriting.

  • Collaborate with top-tier talent of data scientists and engineers at a market-leading Insurance Company.

This is a long-term hybrid contract role offering an opportunity to join a top insurance company in Ireland as a Principal Software Engineer – MLOps. This is an exceptional opportunity, as the role combines software engineering, machine learning, and cloud engineering, with a strong focus on Computer Vision and MLOps.

The company is investing in its Analytics Tech engineering projects, making this a great opportunity to work on real-world AI solutions within a large insurance organization. This is a key role which will play a significant part in all functions of the business as this market-leading insurer embraces a large-scale AI transformation.

Why You’ll Love This Job

  • Stay on top of the market by working at the cutting edge of AI and cloud-native technologies at scale.

  • Get to know and work with a high-performing team of data scientists and engineers. This is a high-calibre organization with top-performing talent.

  • Innovate and create real-world solutions for complex engineering challenges through ML models.

What You’ll Do

  • Build and deploy Computer Vision and ML pipelines using Hugging Face models and containerized APIs, ideally with FastAPI.

  • Take models from experimentation into production.

  • Contribute to architecture and technical design.

  • Promote strong engineering, testing and CI/CD practices across the business.

What You Bring

  • 8+ years of Machine Learning experience

  • Strong software engineering and technical leadership experience.

  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker and AWS.

  • Experience integrating ML solutions with labelling/annotation workflows.

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For additional opportunities, visit the Archer Recruitment website.

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