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AI Engineer/Data Scientist

Fuel Recruitment
Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7JT, United Kingdom
Last month
£600 – £700 pd

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£600 – £700 pd

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16 Jun 2026 (Last month)
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We are looking for an AI Engineer / Data Scientist to work with one of our clients in the defence sector. You will collaborate with the Technical Lead, Engineers and Architects to design, build and deliver secure digital solutions in highly secure environments.

We are looking for someone who has strong hands-on AI engineering experience building LLMs, SLMs and working on ML. You will need experience with graph databases, RAG and Microsoft Graph Retrieval. You will need experience working with geospatial data and large datasets, ideally over 100,000 objects with complex meta data and characteristics.

Due to the nature of the work, candidates must be sole British nationals and be prepared to go through SC clearance and be on site 2 days a week

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