Candidate Requirements:

You should have hands-on experience designing, developing, deploying and managing machine learning models at scale, in production. Good verbal and written communication skills should aid your ability in working well with the team. The role involves taking novel and innovative solution through to production; so a creative, yet pragmatic mindset is welcomed.

The following core skills are required for the role -

•    Proven experience designing and implementing ML/AI pipelines.

•    Ability to write production level Python, with good software engineering fundamentals such as Test Driven Development, SOLID design patterns.

•    Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.

Additional desirable skills/experience includes:

•    Experience with ML frameworks such as Tensorflow and PyTorch.

•    Experience in DevOps and code deployment using CI/CD best practices.

•    Good understanding of AWS or Azure platforms.

•    Exposure to Infrastructure as Code e.g. Terraform.

•    Experience with containerisation technologies.

•    Familiarity with Hadoop ecosystem and large-scale data processing frameworks e.g. Spark, Apache Beam.

•    Awareness of MLOps frameworks e.g. MLFlow, Kubeflow.

Note that Raytheon anticipate that this is a demanding skillset and therefore are flexible regarding the overall skills match. Where necessary training will be provided to the right candidate to ensure that any skills gaps are addressed.

Broader Experience

Raytheon UK welcomes individuals with a broad range of experiences, diverse careers and technical qualifications.  Such diversity of thought is an asset, and as such, broad career experience is valuable. Examples of relevant experience or qualifications are:

•    Professional data science certifications (eg Cloudera Data Scientist) or other technologies.

•    Experience working in the Defence and National Security domain, in particular direct experience working with UK Government customers.

•    Evidence of proactive self-development and self-directed learning such as Cloud certification.