Key skills
PythonAI/ML systemsNatural Language ProcessingLLM APIsData analysisClean codeModel evaluationCross-functional collaborationRAIMachine LearningMLLLMAnalytics
About this role
YouGov is a global market research company seeking a talented and self-motivated Senior Data Scientist/AI Engineer to join their team remotely. This role involves designing, building, and deploying AI-driven tools for market research, while tackling complex data problems and collaborating with various teams to create impactful products.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build AI-powered applications to analyze, summarize, and generate insights from survey data
- Contribute to technical design and architecture decisions for AI/ML systems
- Develop and optimize prompts and chains
- Build applications to simplify analytics and improve the efficiency of data processing
- Work with structured and unstructured data
- Collaborate with data analysts, product managers, UI designers, and software developers to create great products
- Contribute to model evaluation and performance tracking using both qualitative and quantitative metrics
- Stay up to date with recent developments in AI and machine learning, including LLMs, fine tuning, and RAG pipelines
- Handling ambiguous, complex problems with minimal guidance
- Contribute to technical vision, architectural decisions, or to help setting technical standards
- Contribute to business impact and strategic problem-solving at an organizational level as and when required
Requirements:
- Master's or PhD in data science or related field
- Demonstrable progressive experience in senior data science/AI engineering roles
- Advanced knowledge in Python and/or R for data analysis, modelling, and visualization
- Experience working with LLM APIs and building LLM-based applications and frameworks
- Progressive experience with natural language processing, including topic modelling, text classification, and summarization
- Experience in taking part in cross-functional technical projects
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, well-documented code
- Proven track record of delivering complex, high-impact solutions
- Ability to cross collaborate with other teams across the business