Data Scientist

Applied Data Scientist (NLP) 9 Months Initial - Outside IR35 - Fully Remote - £350-400pd DOE.

We are partnering with a global tech business who are looking for a talented Data Scientist with strong experience in GenAI / NLP to join them on a contract basis

As an Data Scientist you will be working on NLP applications for risk, fraud, and investigation products. Your job will be to:

• Experiment with different state-of-the-art as well as traditional NLP approaches to find the best solution for the given problem.
• Independently determine appropriate data and modelling choices.
• Effectively communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Follow best practices for ML experimentation and MLOps.

Required Qualifications:

• PhD in a relevant discipline or Master’s plus a comparable level of experience
• Experience in Knowledge Graphs or Large Document Search
• Experience with traditional ML models and feature engineering.
• Strong Experience with fine tuning, modelling and deploying LLMs - experience with RAG, IR, NER etc would also be very beneficial
• Strong programming skills (e.g., Python) and experience with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain).
• Collaborating with other Researchers, Product, Engineering and Business Stakeholders in an agile manner to demonstrate value and iterate with customer feedback.

Please apply below for immediate consideration!