Senior MLOps Engineer

Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

At Abcam, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. 

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

Progress happens together

At Abcam, we believe the scientific community goes further, faster when we go there together. That’s why we work with life scientists to provide biological reagents and solutions that enable faster breakthroughs in critical areas like cancer, neurological disorders, infectious diseases and metabolic disorders. Our talented team of over 1,400 colleagues worldwide is our greatest asset. By applying our expertise and pushing boundaries, together we strive to better serve our customers, strengthen our impact across our industry, and ultimately our positive impact on society.

Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.

The Senior MLOps Engineer is responsible for the design, governance, evaluation, and production operation of systems built on foundation models, translating model behavior into functional, production-ready applications that drive measurable business impact.

This position reports to the Senior Director AI Operations and Commercial and is part of the Data & AI Team located in Cambridge and will be an on-site role.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Design, govern, enhance and maintain our AI Tech Stack, a core enabler for Abcam’s AI & ML models and applications.
• Establish evaluation, monitoring, and guardrails to ensure measurable performance, quality, and safety.
• Guide users of the Tech Stack from the Data & AI Team and across the business in their use of the Tech Stack and best practices

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Ability to design, deploy, and operate production-grade AI systems with focus on reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Cloud and infrastructure platforms and tools, including deployment, containerization, and CI/CD practices.
• Monitoring and observability tools, multi-agent orchestration tools, monorepo technologies
• Strong inter-personal skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and translate business problems into technical solutions.

Abcam, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

For more information, visit www.danaher.com.