Senior Machine Learning Scientist

Harnham
London, UK
3 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Compensation
£80,000.0 - £95,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Information Retrieval Python (Programming Language) Machine Learning Natural Language Processing Performance Tuning Unstructured Data Pytorch Large Language Models Deep Learning Generative AI

Job description

Senior Machine Learning ScientistLondon (Remote) The CompanyThey are an innovative technology business leveraging advanced machine learning, natural language processing, and Generative AI to help organisations extract meaningful insights from large volumes of unstructured data. Their environment combines research, experimentation, and product development, giving technical teams the opportunity to work on real-world AI challenges while delivering measurable business impact.The Role

  • Train, evaluate and optimise machine learning models and agentic AI systems, owning experimentation from end to end.
  • Build and enhance LLM-powered solutions including retrieval pipelines, reranking systems, intelligent agents and automated taxonomy generation.
  • Design robust evaluation frameworks, define metrics and benchmark model performance across a range of NLP applications.
  • Improve semantic search and retrieval capabilities using advanced machine learning and information retrieval techniques.
  • Partner with engineering teams to deploy and monitor production-ready machine learning solutions.
  • Collaborate with product and business stakeholders to deliver impactful AI solutions while mentoring colleagues and promoting technical best practice.

Requirements

  • Strong commercial experience with transformer architectures and modern NLP techniques.
  • Advanced Python and PyTorch skills, including custom model training and optimisation.
  • Experience fine-tuning, evaluating and deploying large language models.
  • Experience working with large-scale text datasets and real-world machine learning problems.
  • Solid grounding in statistics and classical machine learning.
  • Hands-on experience developing Generative AI and agentic AI solutions.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits & conditions

  • Competitive salary and benefits package.
  • Hybrid working model.
  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI and machine learning products.
  • Strong career progression within a growing Data Science and AI function.
  • Collaborative, research-driven culture with exposure to the latest advancements in machine learning.

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