Job Description
Role Overview - 3 month contract
We are seeking an experienced Data Scientist with a strong background in Generative AI to design, build, and deploy AI-powered tools end-to-end. You will work within a small, multi-disciplinary team and take full ownership of projects—from initial discovery through to production deployment. This includes scoping use cases, building prototypes, productionising solutions, and implementing robust evaluation and governance frameworks.
Key Responsibilities
1. Develop and deploy Generative AI tools independently, including chat assistants, document Q&A (RAG), summarisation, classification, extraction, and agent-based workflow automation.
2. Lead evaluation and safety efforts, including the creation of offline/online test sets, and measurement of faithfulness, hallucination, bias, latency, and cost. Implement guardrails and red-teaming strategies.
3. Package solutions as services, APIs, or lightweight applications (e.g., Streamlit, Gradio, React), and integrate them via CI/CD pipelines.
4. Design and manage data pipelines, including chunking and embedding strategies, vector store selection, prompt versioning, and monitoring for drift and quality.
5. Define model strategy, selecting and combining hosted and open-source providers, fine-tuning where appropriate, and optimising for performance, cost, and privacy.
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