Data Scientist

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Job Description:

The successful candidate will join a specialised engineering team responsible for developing AI and machine learning solutions that extract valuable intelligence from large-scale, real-time systems.

Key responsibilities include:

• Designing, developing, and deploying machine learning and AI-driven capabilities.
• Taking ownership of solutions across the full product lifecycle, from concept and design through to deployment and support.
• Training, deploying, monitoring, and improving machine learning models in production environments.
• Building software capable of processing and analysing large-scale datasets.
• Working closely with software engineers, data specialists, and cross-functional teams to solve complex problems.
• Contributing to scalable microservice and distributed system architectures.
• Ensuring solutions are maintainable, reliable, and deliver meaningful value to end users.
• Sharing knowledge, mentoring team members, and contributing to a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

• Work with petabyte-scale data environments and real-world AI applications.
• Build solutions that move beyond proof-of-concepts and deliver measurable impact.
• Exposure to modern machine learning, distributed systems, and cloud-native engineering practices.
• Strong focus on learning, mentorship, innovation, and career growth.
• Hybrid working environment that supports flexibility and work-life balance.
• Opportunity to influence products from inception to deployment rather than focusing on a small component of a larger system.
• Collaborate with experienced engineers tackling genuinely interesting technical challenges.

Required:

• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience in Data Science or a data-focused software engineering role.
• Proven experience training, deploying, and supporting machine learning or AI models in production environments.
• Strong programming ability in Python and/or Java.
• Strong SQL and database design skills with experience working on large datasets.
• Experience with data wrangling, feature engineering, and model evaluation
• Experience working in Unix-based environments, including scripting, networking, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with version control systems, containers, CI/CD processes, and microservice architectures.

• Master's degree in a relevant field.
• Experience with Apache Kafka or real-time event processing.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
• Experience with NLP, LLMs, RAG architectures, or audio processing.
• Experience deploying ML services as scalable microservices.
• Leadership or mentoring experience.
• Exposure to telecommunications, signal processing, or IP networking.

Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related quantitative discipline.

Minimum 3 years of relevant Data Science or Software Engineering experience.

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