AI Engineer - Contract

AI Engineer – Contract (x2)

Rate: £700 per day
Contract Length: 3–6 months
Location: Flexible / Hybrid (depending on candidate)

Morela is supporting an exciting AI startup in the search for two highly skilled AI Engineers with strong Python expertise to support the delivery of a key AI project. These are hands-on contract roles suited to engineers who enjoy building, optimising, and deploying AI solutions in a fast-moving environment.

You’ll work closely with product, data, and engineering teams to design and implement machine learning models, contribute to production-ready pipelines, and help scale AI capabilities across the business.

Key Responsibilities:

Design, build, and deploy machine learning models using Python

Develop and optimise data pipelines and model training workflows

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into technical solutions

Support model evaluation, performance tuning, and monitoring in production

Contribute to best practices around code quality, testing, and scalability

Required Experience:

Proven experience as an AI Engineer or Machine Learning Engineer

Advanced Python skills with experience in ML frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn)

Strong understanding of machine learning algorithms and applied AI

Experience deploying models into production environments

Comfortable working in startup or fast-paced delivery environments

This is a strong opportunity to join a growing AI startup at a key delivery phase, working on impactful projects and building production-grade AI solutions.

If you’re interested or would like more details, please email me at (url removed)