Senior Data Scientist

The role

You will own matching, recommendation, and taxonomy mapping models. You will design models, run scientific experiments, and work with product engineering teams to implement AI features.

What you will do

• Build, improve and own matching and recommendation models.
• Build golden datasets and define quality metrics.
• Design and run robust scientific experiments.
• Track and report technical and business metrics.
• Write clean and tested Python code using AI coding agents.
• Review code from peers and AI agents.
• Follow recent research to inform the product roadmap.
• Document work and present to stakeholders.
• Contribute to research visibility through challenges, conferences and publications.

Required qualifications

• Minimum of 2-4 years of experience as a Data Scientist, Senior Data Scientist (or a similar role) in an AI startup or an AI team.
• Strong experience with recommender systems, search, ranking or matching.
• Fluency in evaluation including designing datasets and quality metrics.
• Strong foundation in NLP and GenAI, including Transformers, LLMs and embedding models.
• High-quality software development skills in Python.
• Practical knowledge of CI/CD.
• Hands-on experience with agentic coding.
• Ability to simplify complex problems and work with ambiguity.
• Ability to collaborate with data scientists, engineers, product managers and business stakeholders.
• Master's degree or PhD, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics or a related field.

Nice to have

• Training or fine-tuning Transformers, LLMs and embedding models
• Experience with explainable or conversational recommendations
• Experience in HR Tech, talent acquisition or workforce data
• Publications, open-source contributions or strong results in ML challenges (e.g. RecSys, Kaggle)

Benefits

• Chance to own core AI models used by forward-thinking organisations
• Team that publishes, competes and is recognised in the research community
• Work with the latest AI technologies and tools
• Close collaboration with experienced data scientists, QA, platform and product engineers

Before you apply

• Unable to provide Visa sponsorship for this role

About the company

Beamery's jobs, skills and tasks data platform helps organizations navigate challenges and make decisions across Talent Lifecycle Management. The company is on a mission to create equal access to meaningful work, skills and careers for all.