£700 per day
Outside Spy
Manchester Area, United Kingdom
ML Data/Ops Engineer (Quality & Validation Focus) – up to £700 p/d – Outside IR35 – Fully Remote – 6–8 weeks with room for extension – ASAP start Tech: Python, AWS Most ML contracts are about building models. This one is about stress-testing them before a major release. I’m looking for an ML Data/Ops Engineer to take ownership of data quality and model validation across a live ML platform. You’ll be hands-on with adversarial testing - pushing models with edge cases, bad inputs and failure scenarios to see where they break - alongside pipeline validation and putting proper data quarantine in place in production. A big part of this is at the ingestion layer - spotting bad or risky data early and stopping it before it even hits downstream pipelines. Not just fixing issues late, but preventing them from entering the system in the first place. You’ll also be making sure model outputs are explainable, auditable, and aligned with governance and...