Latest senior data scientist Jobs

Retail and Customer Experience Data Analyst

This role involves analysing customer, retail, and commercial performance data to drive business decisions. You'll build dashboards, support store expansions, and present insights to senior stakeholders, bridging the gap between data and commercial strategy.

Harnham - Data and Analytics Recruitment London, United Kingdom £40,000 – £50,000 pa

VP Enterprise Data

This role involves leading the enterprise data, technology, architecture, and AI strategy within a data-led organisation. Responsibilities include aligning multidisciplinary teams, driving commercial value from existing investments, and enhancing customer insights and sales engagement through data and AI.

Harnham - Data and Analytics Recruitment London, United Kingdom £180,000 pa

Senior Research Scientist - AI Safety

This role involves leading high-impact AI safety research, focusing on red teaming and evaluations for frontier models in high-risk domains like cybersecurity and CBRN. The scientist will drive research from concept to publication, shape safety strategies, and collaborate with government and commercial partners on mitigating misuse risks. Work includes technical leadership in language models, generative AI, and robustness, with a strong emphasis on real-world deployment and policy-relevant insights.

Faculty AI London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent Clearance Required

Senior Flood Risk & Hydraulic Modeller

This role involves preparing flood risk assessments, hydrological studies, and hydraulic models using software like HEC RAS, TUFLOW, and Flood Modeller. You will also liaise with clients, regulators, and design teams, while mentoring junior team members and managing project delivery.

Penguin Recruitment Cambridge, United Kingdom £45,000 – £55,000 pa

Hybrid Permanent

Technical Director of AI Safety

Lead technical strategy and R&D in AI safety, building and mentoring a high-performing team to develop cutting-edge red-teaming, evaluation, and mitigation techniques for frontier AI models. Drive scientific rigor and real-world impact through collaborations with leading AI labs and government bodies, while shaping global AI safety standards and publishing influential research.

Faculty AI London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent Clearance Required

Workstream Lead, Agentic AI Risk Modelling and Mitigations

The Workstream Lead will provide scientific, strategic, and managerial leadership for the Agentic AI Risk Modelling and Mitigations team. Responsibilities include setting the research agenda, leading the scientific direction, translating findings into practical mitigations, and building relationships with key stakeholders in government and industry.

AI Security Institute London, United Kingdom

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Lead the technical direction of complex AI/ML projects, designing scalable production systems and guiding engineering teams in high-risk, government-facing environments. Drive architecture decisions, model deployment infrastructure, and cross-team technical alignment on impactful public sector AI platforms. Mentor engineers, define standards, and shape adoption of cutting-edge AI frameworks across the organisation.

Faculty London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent Clearance Required

Research Scientist

Conducts original research in AI safety, focusing on interpretability and behavioral analysis of transformer-based language models. Designs and runs experiments to study model behavior, develops reproducible research tooling in Python/PyTorch, and translates technical findings for government, industry, and safety partners. Works closely with senior scientists to advance robust AI deployment and contribute to emerging safety standards.

Faculty London, United Kingdom

Permanent

Finance Business Partner (SaaS)

This role involves partnering with R&D, Product, and IT leadership to manage financials, build and own product-level P&Ls, track R&D spend, create business cases for new investments, and maintain cost models. The position offers exposure to a technology business and a clear path for growth.

Marc Daniels West London, United Kingdom £60,000 – £75,000 pa