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Senior Data Scientist

Burns Sheehan
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8 months ago
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The information below covers the role requirements, expected candidate experience, and accompanying qualifications.Start-Up£85,000-£95,000Remote based with occasional meet ups in the UK (Must have full right to work within the UK)Chance to work with industry leading expertsWe are currently partnered with a revolutionary start-up looking to bring in a Senior Machine Learning engineering to work with the co-founders and newly appointed CTO. As a tech-driven AI startup, we are at the forefront of cutting-edge technology, leveraging Machine Learning, Generative AI, and real-time data analysis to create impactful solutions. If you’re passionate about innovation and thrive on ambitious goals, you’ll feel right at home here.The co founders believe that small teams achieve big things. They want to empower individuals create extraordinary outcomes. They are assembling a world-class AI and Engineering team where every contributor has the opportunity to leave a profound impact.The business is currently in stealth mode although a sprinkle of information we can provide is that they are building a next generation platform to help improve customer experiences on an unprecedented scale systems process billions of real-time data points daily, combining advanced ML models and large language models to deliver context-aware experiences worldwide. Through rapid model optimisation and continuous experimentation, the company drives engagement through intelligent recommendations and personalised content, delivering over 10%+ revenue growth for their clients & partners.Experience working with Python & SQL is a must. Any experience working with LLMs is a plus. You will be working with other experienced Data Engineers & Machine Learning Engineers so to have commercial working experience with these types.Apply with most recent and up to date CV to be considered for shortlisting.

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