Senior Data Scientist

Our client currently seeks a Senior Data Scientist to join their dynamic team on a 12 month contract. This role is remote.

Required Skills

• Strong applied ML fundamentals, with hands-on experience building and evaluating models on real data.
• Excellent Python and SQL skills.
• Practical experience with embeddings, semantic similarity, LLMs, or related AI techniques.
• Hands-on experience training supervised and unsupervised models, including classification and NLP tasks.
• Working knowledge of neural network and transformer architectures.
• Proficiency with common ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and PyCaret.
• Experience retraining a taxonomy classifier or maintaining classification models in production.
• Experimental judgment: able to define baselines, metrics, test sets, and error analysis that show whether quality improved.
• Ability to explain model behavior, tradeoffs, and edge cases clearly to engineering and business partners.