Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Sky
Osterley, London, United Kingdom
Full-time
Posted Oct 22, 2025
Full-time
Compensation
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About the role
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Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain applied machine learning solutions that power Sky’s far-field voice experiences across Sky Glass and other partner devices.
- Contribute to innovation discussions and research in applied speech, audio signal processing, ASR, NLP, and machine learning.
- Build and construct cloud-based ML pipelines and APIs that process real-time audio streams at scale.
- Work closely with data scientists, audio engineers, product managers, and external partners to deliver robust and accurate voice experiences.
- Develop and document technical specifications, ensuring solutions meet latency, performance, and reliability requirements.
- Monitor system metrics and production model performance to proactively identify opportunities for improvement.
- Ensure best practices for ML operations (MLOps), including continuous integration, model deployment, and automated testing.
- Provide technical guidance, code reviews, and mentorship to junior members of the team.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability across the full ML lifecycle: model development, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance, with solid theoretical knowledge from classic approaches to state-of-the-art techniques.
- Proven ability to refactor and write performant, secure, and clean code; strong experience with Python and ML libraries/frameworks, plus a desire to learn additional languages.
- Hands-on experience with cloud services commonly used in serverless applications, following best practices (e.g., AWS Lambda), and working with CI/CD in agile teams.
- Strong experience building in-house models and solutions for customer-facing products, including large-scale ML systems serving tens of millions of users.
- End-to-end product development skills with a passion for technology, fast-paced delivery, and a restless attitude to continuously improve speed and quality.
- Good communicator, team player, and tech leader who can also contribute individually; strong positive attitude toward success and failure.
- Strong analytical skills with measurable impact, familiarity with Generative AI and its production applications, and a drive to innovate.
- PhD in related subjects, extensive ML research background, academic publications in ML conferences/journals, and experience developing ML products for Voice, ASR, and NLP at scale.
Benefits
- Generous pension package
- Private healthcare
- Discounted mobile and broadband
- A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences
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Location
Osterley, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-time
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