Lead Data Scientist

Mesh-AI
London
1 week ago
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About MeshAI

Were a transformation consultancy and we exist to reimagine how enterprises operate making data and AI their competitive advantage. We turn enterprises into datadriven and AI enabled organisations unleashing business growth and accelerating outcomes.

We have big ambitions for the future. Since we launched October 2021 weve grown to over 100 people and are working with some of the UKs largest enterprises to deliver real transformation.

Were building an open collaborative culture and we are always on the lookout for top talent to join us in our next phase of growth. If youre interested in working on businessdefining engagements with some of the brightest minds in the industry apply below!

Our Values

Were committed to building an organisation where everyone can thrive. Thats why we collectively created the following values:

Own It:Take responsibility and make impactful decisions your ownership drives our success.
Drive Excellence:Commit to being the best in what we do excellence isnt an option its our benchmark.
Act with Integrity:Uphold a culture of trust and respect build strong relationships and deliver on every promise.
Think Customer First:Put our customers at the heart of every decision you make their success defines ours.
Go Big & Innovate:Be ambitious challenge norms and innovate boldly to redefine whats possible for us and our customers.


Opportunity

Youll not be an island here. Were going to surround you with industry leading talent who are working towards a shared goal of using AI/ML to deliver maximum business value to our clients. Were going to be bringing products & solutions to life your work will see the light of day.

Responsibilities

  • Help own AI/ML domain as part of a cross functional team
  • Solve the business problems not just the technical ones understand our customers the people & problems they face and design solutions that help them
  • Designing and building data science and machine learning systems that have measurable impact for clients with the use of cutting edge technologies
  • Bridging the gap between business and technology; comfortably communicating & managing expectations across customer stakeholder technology & our own engineering teams.
  • Contributing in discovery sessions and workshops with customers
  • Engage with your crossfunctional squad across discovery & delivery phases of engagements; advisory design & implementation
  • Contribute to internal initiatives such as; blogs & technical forums

Requirements

  • Substantial experience with Python and relevant libraries (e.g.PandasNumpy Scikit Learn PyTorch Tensorflow)
  • Experience driving ML & data science solutions into production
  • You can put the numbers into a business perspective youre a data storyteller
  • You are comfortable getting handson dealing with the customer and their problems
  • Experience with cloud computing ecosystems (e.g. AWS Azure GCP)
  • Exposure to & appreciation of software engineering best practices applied to data e.g. version control CI/CD
  • General purpose skills in AI/ML and a proven record of applying them to solve business problems
  • Impact driven work proud and eager to have a real positive influence on MeshAI our customers and your team

Nice to Have

  • NLP LLMs GenAI time series forecasting image recognition or deep learning
  • PySpark OpenCV. spaCy or DVC
  • Exposure to MLOps

Why MeshAI

  • Fastgrowing startup organisation with huge opportunity for career growth
  • Highly competitive salary package along with company bonus
  • A hugely collaborative working environment where every persons viewpoint is considered a chance to make your mark on the business from day one!
  • Financially backed business meaning security and support for new initiatives and global market expansion
  • Pick your own Gear! Macbooks PCs Accessories!
  • Drive your development with a personal learning budget

Want to know more Get in touch with Otherwise apply here.


Key Skills
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Employment Type :Full Time
Experience:years
Vacancy:1

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