Teams at Rowden

Lead commercial contracting and legal operations for defence, critical national infrastructure, and technology businesses. Responsibilities include negotiating government and public-sector contracts, technology and software commercialization agreements, supplier and teaming arrangements, and advising on UK procurement law. The role will implement CLM processes, templates, playbooks, automation, and enterprise AI tools while partnering with commercial, product, engineering, and finance teams. It also supports regulatory, export-control, security, corporate, and other legal matters.

Lead and develop a machine learning engineering team while remaining approximately 70% hands-on. Build, train, evaluate, and deploy ML systems, establish engineering standards and processes, mentor engineers, support hiring and resource planning, and collaborate with technical and delivery leads. The role covers applied R&D, deep learning, LLMs, MLOps, edge deployment, and assurance for demanding government and national-security applications.

Lead hands-on machine learning engineering across applied R&D, large-model training, LLMs, agentic systems, data pipelines, and edge deployment. Own technically demanding projects, make architecture decisions, train and optimize models, and mature systems for production or deployment. Represent the company with customers and partners, contribute to bids, mentor engineers, and establish engineering standards. The role focuses on trusted AI systems for demanding environments and requires regular on-site work in Bristol, occasional customer travel, and international exercises.