Senior Data Scientist

(London – visit the office x2+ days a month)

Xcede are delighted to be working with one of the most innovative companies in the FinTech space tackling issues around fraudulent activity, anti-money laundering measures, and customer authentication / identification. Significantly, the organisation has invested in an ML-driven solution to automate this process, allowing them to work at a significant scale. Despite the company’s global client base and reach, you have the lovely bonus of working with a small, tight-knit team of experienced Machine Learning professionals.

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a tangible impact with your work and utilise cutting-edge LLMs within an NLP context.

Responsibilities

• Helping to define and implement NLP-led projects within the core Product.
• Work with the ML Engineering team to help productionise and scale the algorithms.
• Mentor junior team members

Requirements

• Strong academic background in a relevant field (Statistics, Computer Science, etc.)
• Significant experience utilising NLP in a commercial setting, ideally for NER/ Document understanding, etc. Hugging Face a bonus.
• Experience working with transformers-based models such as BERT, GPT, etc.
• Extensive Deep Learning & Machine Learning knowledge.
• Usage of LLMs in a commercial environment is a bonus.
• PyTorch experience a major bonus – other ML frameworks are also accepted.
• Docker & Kubernetes experience is a bonus.

If this role interests you and you would like to find out more, please apply here or contact us via niall.wharton@Xcede.com (feel free to include a CV for review).