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MLOps Engineer (LLM/GenAI)

hackajob
Sheffield, United KingdomPosted Aug 3, 2026
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MLOps Engineer (LLM/GenAI)

hackajob Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

MLOps Engineer (LLM/GenAI)

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hackajob is collaborating with HSBC to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

This is a hybrid role, based in Sheffield, UK

In This Role, You Will

  • Design, build, and operate scalable model hosting platforms for LLMs, embeddings, and STT/TTS across heterogeneous hardware
  • Optimise inference for latency, throughput, and cost (e.g., quantisation, KV-cache optimisation, dynamic/continuous batching)
  • Evaluate and integrate inference frameworks (e.g., vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, SGLang) to maximise performance on target hardware
  • Own inference health/performance monitoring (latency, throughput, TTFT, memory, availability) and troubleshoot bottlenecks/deployment issues
  • Build end-to-end fine-tuning pipelines (data prep → distributed training → validation) and integrate fine-tuned models into the hosting/inference stack

To be successful in this role you should have the following skills:

  • Extensive experience in building AI platforms covering model hosting/inference optimisation and fine-tuning pipelines (LLM experience strongly preferred)
  • Strong Python and CUDA engineering; solid understanding of GPU/CPU architecture and HPC fundamentals
  • Deep inference optimisation expertise: KV-cache, batching, quantisation (INT4/FP8/GPTQ/AWQ), operator optimisation, framework integration (vLLM/TensorRT-LLM/SGLang)
  • Production hosting experience with Docker/Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
  • End-to-end fine-tuning expertise: data preparation, distributed training, hyperparameter tuning, HF/Accelerate/LoRA/QLoRA, plus benchmarking/monitoring/troubleshooting

  • Seniority level

    Mid-Senior level

  • Employment type

    Full-time

  • Job function

    Engineering and Information Technology

  • Industries

    Software Development

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