Senior Data Scientist

Wilson Grey
Bristol
10 months ago
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Senior Data Scientist - Computer Visionopportunity with a B2B tech startup in the AI space. This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days per week in the Central Bristol office.


Our client works with enterprise businesses on their AI capabilities in areas such as healthcare, manufacturing and agriculture.


Working cross-functionally in this fast-growing startup, you will have a unique opportunity to develop first-class AI and ML products and solutions and join a business at an exciting stage of growth as they prepare to scale.


You should consider this opportunity if the following appeals to you:


✔️ You have a passion and deep expertise in Computer Vision

✔️ You’ve worked in a startup before and prefer all that it entails over a job in a large corporation

✔️ You are excited about Generative AI and what the future holds


About the role:

  • Develop Deep Learning solutions
  • Develop the methodology and assessment criteria to measure solution performance
  • Track and implement advancements in Deep Learning and Computer Vision
  • Maintain Machine Learning products
  • Help shape the data science team as it scales


About you:

  • Current or recent experience in a tech startup or scale-up with a fast-paced environment
  • Expertise in Deep Learning and Computer Vision (incl. image classification, detection, facial recognition, etc.)
  • Understanding of transfer learning and popular augmentation techniques
  • Able to apply machine learning to real-life problems
  • Vision Transformers, DeepLabv3, SegFormer, etc.Python, Scikit-Learn, NumPy, Pandas and PyTorch/TensorFlow/Keras
  • Thrive in a cross-functional working environment
  • Possess a clear passion for data science beyond the day job


Nice-to-haves:

  • NLP, OpenCV, Generative AI, data visualization, MLOps


On offer:

  • Base salary of £85k - £95k depending on experience
  • Hybrid working - 3 days in the Bristol office

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