Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Scientific AI
McKinsey & Company
Software Engineering, Data Science
London, UK
Posted on Feb 26, 2025
Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Scientific AI
Job ID: 95321
Do you want to work on complex and pressing challenges—the kind that bring together curious, ambitious, and determined leaders who strive to become better every day? If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place.
Your Impact
You will leverage your expertise in data/machine learning engineering and product development to solve complex client problems through part-time staffing, develop engineering roadmaps for cell-level initiatives, and transform AI prototypes into deployment-ready solutions.
By working directly with client delivery teams, you will ensure seamless implementation of prototypes and solutions. You will translate engineering concepts for senior stakeholders, write optimized code to enhance McKinsey’s AI Toolbox, and codify methodologies for future deployment. In multi-disciplinary teams, you will ensure smooth integration of AI/ML solutions across projects and mentor junior colleagues.
Your Growth
You will work with cutting-edge AI teams on research and development topics across our life sciences, global energy and materials, and advanced industries practices, serving as a data engineer/machine learning engineer in a technology development and delivery capacity.
With your expertise in computer science, computer engineering, cloud, and data transformation (ETL & feature engineering), you will help build and shape McKinsey’s scientific AI offering. As a member of McKinsey’s global scientific AI team, you will address industry questions on how AI can be used for therapeutics, chemicals, and materials (including small molecules, proteins, mRNA, polymers, etc.).
Your work will involve delivering distinctive capabilities, data, and machine learning systems through collaboration with client teams, playing a pivotal role in creating and disseminating cutting-edge knowledge and proprietary assets, and building the firm’s reputation in your area of expertise.
Your qualifications and skills
- Master’s degree with 7+ years of relevant experience OR PhD with 5+ years of relevant experience
- Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent experience with a research background
- Data Engineering experience (DE Path)
- ETL & Big Data tools (e.g., PySpark, Databricks)
- Python testing frameworks, data validation & quality frameworks
- SQL & NoSQL data handling
- Feature engineering, chunking, document ingestion
- Graph data structures (e.g., Neo4j)
- CI/CD pipelines
- Kubernetes basics (manifests, debugging, Docker, Argo Workflows)
- MLflow deployment and usage
- GenAI frameworks (e.g., LangChain)
- GPU model development & deployment
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