Lead Data Scientist

Sahaj Software
London
3 days ago
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About Sahaj


Sahaj Software is an artisanal software engineering firm built on the values of trust, respect, curiosity, and craftsmanship, and delivering purpose-built solutions to drive data-led transformation for organisations. Our emphasis is on craft as we create purpose-built solutions, leveraging Data Engineering, Platform Engineering and Data Science with a razor-sharp focus to solve complex business and technology challenges, and provide customers with a competitive edge.


About the role and the skill set:


A Data Scientist at Sahaj should be able to interact with clients and help solve client problems. They should be conversant with problem solving, first principles thinking, data science model life cycle, metrics, and deployments. The model choices should be chosen based on accuracy requirements, the target operational environment and the latencies. The activity for a data scientist involves conceptualizing, formulating, coding and deploying the solutions to the problem. They should be conversant with using cloud computing depending on the target environment. They should be conversant with interacting with the clients and be able to make sense of ambiguous problem statements.


Our client problems can range in a variety of domains. Some examples, but not limited to, are building a RAG leveraging open source or commercial LLMs, building a Multiagent system, leveraging Small Language models that could be locally resident, problems in computer vision, speech, Natural Language Processing (NLP), multilingual models, applied statistics, data mining or conventional machine learning models.


We look to our data scientists to be conversant with at least 2 or more of the above areas, and be conversant with deep learning and conventional machine learning methods. Have requisite theoretical strength, and expertise in problem solving whilst being hands on and be conversant with coding in Python along with relevant libraries.


Qualifications/experience:


PhD/Master’s/Graduate Degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, Operational Research, Statistics, or Mathematics. or equivalent.

Have experience with a proven track record in client-interaction, can collaborate with engineering and business teams and is good at formulation, solving and deploying Data Science models.


What will you experience in terms of culture at Sahaj?


A culture of trust, respect and transparency

Opportunity to collaborate with some of the finest minds in the industry

Work across multiple domains


What are the benefits of being at Sahaj?


Unlimited holiday allowance

Life insurance & private health insurance

Stock options

No hierarchy

Open Salaries

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