Principal Data Scientist / AI Engineer

Wyatt Partners
London
9 months ago
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This role will lead the build of real world AI products for a very successful B2B SaaS firm, already doing c. $100 million ARR. The products you build will have significant impact on the companies bottom line.


The company have a large proprietary data set, unrivalled in their marketplace.


About the Company- PE backed c. $100 million ARR B2B SaaS firm, looking to hire a Principal ML Engineer / Data Scientist to build data science and AI products to integrate into their platform. They are around 200 employees with a great tech team and modern tech stack as well as an unrivalled dataset in their marketplace built by merging several key companies within the sector.


About the Role- The role will be largely a Senior Individual contributor although with significant access & interaction with the C-suite & Private Equity backers. You'll lead teams on a squad basis and manage 3rd party resource from a specialist consultancy.


You will be responsible for design and build of AI tools for a B2B sales platform. The products will aim to take the platform to another level of depth for it's users offering strategic recommendation & insights.


It is critical that you can demonstrate experience of building Data & AI tools that have created commercial value for an organisation and/or it's clients.


In particular we are looking for experience of building AI enabled prediction & forecasting products.


We are expecting technical experience in some of these areas:


  • LLM's, RAG
  • Delivering applied Machine Learning projects
  • Time Series Modelling
  • Recommender systems & models


This is an opportunity to build real world AI tools that will be put in the hands of B2B end users, and create significant extra revenue for the rapidly growing B2B SaaS company.

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