Lead Applied Scientist (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)

Requirements

• Ideal for someone with deep scientific judgement, strong applied ML skills, and a practical bias toward methods that work in real customer and product contexts
• PhD or MSc in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Machine Learning, or a related field
• 3+ years of applied ML, AI research, or data science experience with demonstrated real-world impact
• Experience with human-in-the-loop AI systems, including RLHF, annotation pipelines, data quality modelling, judgement aggregation, benchmarks, or AI evaluation
• Fluency with modern LLM and agentic techniques, such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), LLM-as-judge, multi-agent workflows, synthetic data generation, and automated quality review
• Strong Python skills and the ability to quickly build, test, and iterate on working prototypes
• Good judgement on when to use simple statistical methods, classical ML, LLMs, or agentic approaches
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