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With our strategic partner Accenture, we work alongside our Vodafone customers, other Telco and tech companies to drive transformation, meet the challenges of our industry and ensure we stay relevant and resilient. This partnership is a unique, industry-first model which brings together the best of in-house and 3rd party capability.\nWe work with customers across 28 countries from 10 VOIS locations: Albania, Egypt, Hungary, India, Romania, Spain, Turkey, UK, Germany, Ireland, and with a network of teams in Czech Republic, Italy, Greece, and Portugal.\n#VOIS #BeUnrivalled #CreateTheFuture\nAbout this role\nWe are seeking a Senior ML & AI Engineer to join our Digital Engineering, Digital & IT team in the UK, with flexible working across Newbury and Paddington.\nReporting to the Data Products & Insights Lead, you will turn validated Data Science, machine-learning and generative-AI solutions into secure, reliable and scalable production services. You will own the engineering lifecycle for model and agent deployment, evaluation, observability and operational control, working closely with the Lead Data Scientist and Data Engineers.\nThis role will establish and apply MLOps and LLMOps practices across production AI solutions, using approved Data Platform capabilities. 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You may be the right candidate for this or another opportunity, and the recruitment team will support you in exploring where your skills fit best.\nWhat's in it for you\nThe opportunity to engineer and productionise machine-learning, generative-AI and justified agent-based solutions across scalable digital services.\nOwnership across the ML/AI production lifecycle, including deployment, evaluation, observability, operational readiness and control.\nThe opportunity to establish and mature MLOps and LLMOps delivery practices.\nPractical experience applying responsible AI engineering across quality, safety, hallucination, bias, robustness, privacy and security.\nThe opportunity to influence technical decisions across model serving, tooling, provider selection and build-versus-buy choices.\nCollaboration with Data Science and Data Engineering specialists on the transition from validated approaches to controlled production services.\nExperience balancing real-world AI engineering considerations including reliability, latency, scalability, portability, provider dependency and cost.\nFlexible UK working across Newbury and Paddington.\nWhat skills you will learn\nThrough this role, you will have opportunities to further develop your capabilities in:\nProduction engineering for machine-learning and generative-AI systems.\nMLOps and LLMOps, including automated evaluation, model versioning, deployment, rollback and environment promotion.\nProduction AI evaluation covering hallucination, bias, safety, robustness, quality and task performance.\nCloud-based ML and AI engineering using Google Cloud Platform, Vertex AI or equivalent technologies.\nModel and AI-service observability across drift, latency, availability and cost.\nEngineering and operational controls for agent-based AI solutions.\nResponsible AI engineering covering security, privacy, explainability, human oversight and model-risk controls.\nProduction incident response, runbook development, guardrails and audit evidence.\nTechnical assessment of build-versus-buy, portability and AI-provider trade-offs.\nVOIS Equal Opportunity Employer Commitment\nVodafone recognises and celebrates the value of diversity in building a workforce that reflects the customers and communities it serves. No form of discrimination is tolerated. This includes, but is not limited to, discrimination based on race, colour, age, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, ethnicity, disability, religion or belief, political affiliation, trade union membership, nationality, citizenship, indigenous status, medical condition, HIV status, neurodiversity, social origin, cultural background, marital or civil partnership status, or socio-economic background.\nJoin Us\nAt Vodafone, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this.\nWe challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. 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