Principal Machine Learning Engineer
Rowden Technologies · Posted Nov 4, 2026
- Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Hybrid
- Full-time · Principal
As a Principal ML Engineer, you will be a technical authority on our most important ML work. This is a principal individual contributor role: you will take the technical lead on key projects, contribute technical expertise to bids, and represent Rowden’s ML capability with customers and partners.
Compensation
For senior roles, compensation is tailored to the scope of the role and the specific experience a candidate brings.
Responsibilities
- Take technical ownership of our most demanding ML projects, set the approach, and make the decisions that matter
- Stay hands-on at depth: design, build, train and debug yourself
- Lead our large model work, including pre-training, fine-tuning, distributed training and evaluation at scale
- Bring practical expertise to projects across the team that build on LLMs and agents, with an eye on latency, cost and reliability in constrained settings
- Ensure solutions work end-to-end, from data pipelines and training infrastructure through to deployment on edge hardware
Requirements
- MSc or equivalent experience
- Nice to have: Rust
- Nice to have: C++
- Nice to have: Quantisation
- Nice to have: Pruning