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# Data Scientist - AI for BHL

- **Company:** Natural History Museum
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £50,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Auditing, Graph Database, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Large Language Models
- **Published:** August 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=7eb940cf01f443f3

## About the Role

We are looking for a data scientist with strong Python skills and experience building reproducible data and machine-learning pipelines. You will be confident working with OCR-derived and unstructured text, annotation workflows, entity normalisation and data quality assurance, and preparing datasets for NER, LLM extraction, training and evaluation. Familiarity with structured outputs, schema validation and knowledge graphs is desirable. You will be a collaborative, proactive team member, comfortable working with scientists, curators, technical teams and international partners.

## Description

We are seeking an experienced Data Scientist for a 12-month project to develop an AI-powered knowledge extraction and discovery platform for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). Working within the AI & Innovation team and with international BHL partners, you will help transform tens of millions of pages of biodiversity literature into a searchable, machine-readable research resource. You will support data-engineering activities including OCR processing, annotation workflows, data quality assurance, entity normalisation and preparation of training and evaluation datasets for LLM-based extraction.


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