Senior ML Engineer & AI Infrastructure Engineer · Bristol, UK

Production AI/ML,
National Infrastructure.

Production AI for sovereign programmes, Fortune 500 clients, and UK government: From cell tower computer vision to national supercomputing infrastructure. Currently building Isambard-AI, one of Europe's largest GPU clusters.

Paul J. Wright
Foundation Model · 2023–2024
SDO-FM: Solar Physics Foundation Model
Co-developed a scientific foundation model for heliophysics with NASA and Google. Actively used by IBM Research.
Multimodal FMHeliophysicsOpen weightsGoogle
Enterprise CV · 2021–2023
Cell Tower Asset Intelligence
End-to-end 3D computer vision for telecommunication infrastructure, deployed at scale for a Fortune 500 client.
3D digital twinsFortune 500SoftBank-backed
Research-to-Operations · 2023–2024
ARCAFF
EU-funded solar flare forecasting toolkit for ML-delivered space weather intelligence.
European CommissionTime-series MLOpen data
Public Sector · 2024–2026
Forestry England ML Platform
Production ML app using Gaussian Processes to model tree planting strategies. Delivered end-to-end for Forestry England.
Gaussian ProcessesForestry England
Feb 2026 – present
Bristol Centre for Supercomputing
AI Infrastructure Engineer (Isambard-AI)
Nov 2024 – Feb 2026
University of Exeter
Software Engineer (Frontend, ML)
Apr 2023 – Nov 2024
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Jan 2021 – Apr 2023
5x5 Technologies Inc.
Founding Machine Learning Engineer
May 2019 – Jan 2021
Stanford University
Machine Learning Fellow
2018 – 2020
NASA Frontier Development Lab
ML Researcher → Team Lead
Keynote
European Space Agency
MLOps & research-to-operations
Expert Recognition
NASA
Subject matter expert in ML-ready data systems
Workshop Organiser
Royal Astronomical Society
Advancing Space Weather Forecasting: bridging gaps in ML
Keynote
Aberystwyth AI Summer School
Machine learning for space weather and solar physics
Open dataset
sdoml
20PB · NASA SDO

20 petabyte ML-ready dataset from the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory — one of the largest open scientific ML datasets available.

sdoml.org ↗
Open source
sunpy
Named Contributor

Python library for solar physics data analysis — used across NASA, ESA, and academic institutions globally.

sunpy.org ↗
Open source
aiapy
Named contributor · JOSS paper

Python package for analysing SDO/AIA data. Named on the JOSS publication and tagged in releases.

aiapy.readthedocs.io ↗
Open source
drms
Named Contributor

Python interface to the JSOC data export system for accessing SDO and HMI data at scale.

github.com/sunpy/drms ↗
SDO-FM: A Foundation Model for Solar Physics
NASA & Google · IBM Research
arXiv ↗
Single-Frame Super-Resolution of Solar Magnetograms advisor
NeurIPS 2019 · ML & Physical Sciences Workshop
arXiv ↗
Probabilistic Super-Resolution of Solar Magnetograms advisor
NeurIPS 2019 · Bayesian Deep Learning Workshop
arXiv ↗
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