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PwC
London
1 month ago
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the role

The AI and Emerging Technologies team identifies and develops AI solutions that solve hard problems for PwC and for its clients. 

Our team works at the frontier of AI and ML in professional services. We work across multiple industries, including healthcare, financial services, and professional services.

We are looking for people to contribute to the development of AI tools and solutions, and help the business build capabilities on cutting-edge AI and NLP techniques.

We’re currently looking for a motivated, self-starter individual, comfortable with ambiguity, and willing to work in a cross-functional environment, with 2+ years of experience in data science, to join us across our Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, and London offices.

What your days will look like:

Solution Development: Contribute to designing, developing and scaling AI and NLP solutions addressing specific business problems or opportunities. This involves understanding business requirements, assessing feasibility, selecting appropriate techniques and technologies, and creating scalable and efficient solutions.

AI Strategy: Contribute to the organisation's AI strategy by identifying opportunities for leveraging AI technologies to drive innovation, improve business processes, and enhance decision-making. This includes staying updated on AI trends and advancements, conducting market research, and providing recommendations on AI adoption and implementation. 

Model Development and Evaluation: Contribute to the development, deployment, and evaluation of AI models and to the deployment and evaluation of off the shelf AI models. This includes selecting appropriate algorithms, optimising model performance, conducting experiments and testing, and ensuring that the models meet the desired accuracy, reliability, and performance criteria. 

Collaboration and Stakeholder Management: Help the wider team collaborating with business stakeholders, technology teams, and other relevant groups to understand their needs, gather requirements, and align AI solutions with organisational goals. 

Prototyping, developing, and deploying machine learning applications into production

Contributing to our machine learning enabled, business-facing applications

Contributing effective, high quality code to our codebase

Model validation and model testing of production models

Presenting findings to senior internal and external stakeholders in written reports and presentations.

This role is for you if:

Python for API and Model development (Machine learning frameworks and tooling e.g. Sklearn) and (Deep learning frameworks such as Pytorch and Tensorflow)

Understanding of machine learning techniques

Experience with data manipulation libraries (e.g. Pandas, Spark, SQL)

Problem solving skills

Git for version control

Cloud experience (we use Azure/GCP/AWS)

Skills we’d also like to hear about:

Evidence of modelling experience applied to industry relevant use cases

Familiarity with working in an MLOps environment

Familiarity with simulation techniques

Familiarity with optimisation techniques

What you'll receive from us:

No matter where you may be in your career or personal life, our are designed to add value and support, recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions. 

We offer a range of benefits including empowered flexibility and a working week split between office, home and client site; private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP; six volunteering days a year and much more.


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