SC Cleared Machine Learning Engineer - ContractRate: Up to £620 per day (Inside IR35) Location: London or Manchester (1-2 days per week on-site) Contract: 6 months Clearance: Active SC requiredWe''re hiring an experienced SC-cleared Machine Learning Engineer to support the delivery of a high-profile central government programme. This role focuses on designing, building, and deploying scalable machine learning solutions to enable advanced analytics, automation, and decision-making across complex government systems.This is a hands-on engineering role, working closely with data scientists, analysts, architects, and product teams to productionise models, build data pipelines, and embed ML capabilities into live services.Key RequirementsActive Security Clearance (SC) - must be current and transferableProven experience as a Machine Learning Engineer within central government or regulated environmentsStrong programming skills in Python (eg Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch)Experience building and deploying ML models into production environmentsStrong knowledge of cloud platforms, particularly: Azure (ML Studio, Azure ML, Data Factory, Synapse)Experience in AWS environments is beneficialExperience with MLOps practices and tools (CI/CD pipelines, model monitoring, versioning)Strong understanding of data engineering concepts (ETL pipelines, data lakes, feature engineering)Experience working with large-scale structured and unstructured datasetsKnowledge of AI ethics, bias