Details:
- Salary: £550 - 650 - Annum
- Job Type: Contract
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Annum
- Location: CV37 Shottery Warwickshire
- Date: 17 hours ago
Description:
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OUTSIDE IR35
We are looking for a Data Scientist with strong machine learning and AI engineering skills to develop the capabilities of our in-house AI platform. This hands-on product development role takes ideas from business requirements through experimentation, evaluation and deployment. A particular focus is producing reliable, structured outputs that applications and business systems can consume and customers can use.
Key responsibilities
* Develop and improve machine learning and AI capabilities that address practical customer needs.
* Build AI workflows for information extraction, classification, knowledge retrieval, summarisation and decision support.
* Design, generate and validate structured JSON outputs using defined schemas, data types and validation rules.
* Prepare, clean, transform and structure data for model development, application consumption, reporting and dissemination.
* Evaluate appropriate approaches, including conventional machine learning, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation and fine-tuning where justified.
* Create evaluation datasets and repeatable tests to measure accuracy, consistency, robustness, latency and cost.
* Implement controls for missing information, unsupported answers, malformed outputs and cases requiring human review.
* Work with developers to expose AI capabilities through APIs and integrate them into customer applications.
* Support deployment, monitoring, version control and improvement of models and AI workflows.
* Document datasets, experiments, design decisions and limitations while protecting confidential customer information.
Essential experience and skills
* Demonstrable experience developing and deploying machine learning or AI solutions.
* Strong Python skills and experience with relevant data science and machine learning libraries.
* Practical experience with large language models, AI APIs and systematic evaluation.
* Strong understanding of JSON, JSON Schema, structured data and data validation.
* Experience preparing datasets, using SQL and building reproducible data processing workflows.
* Sound understanding of statistical evaluation, overfitting, data leakage and model limitations.
* Ability to write maintainable, tested code and collaborate through version control.
* Clear communication and the ability to translate business problems into measurable technical outcomes.
Desirable experience
* Retrieval systems, embeddings, vector databases and document processing.
* MLOps, cloud deployment, containers and model monitoring.
* AI tool calling, agent workflows and Model Context Protocol integrations.
* Experience developing AI capabilities for a commercial software product