Lead Data Scientist

CV-Library
Hermiston, City of Edinburgh
12 months ago
Work Location
Remote
Seniority
Lead
Posted
15 Apr 2025 (12 months ago)

Our client is building the most advanced AI platform in their market. They help their clients service customers with unmatched speed and accuracy.

The Opportunity:
There're looking for a Senior Data Scientist with deep experience in computer vision to join a high-performance team. You’ll help push the boundaries of visual defect detection and predictive automation — solving real-world challenges.

You’ll work on:
• Training and deploying CV models for damage detection
• Improving classification, segmentation, and bounding box performance at scale
• Leveraging expert-labelled datasets to build high-accuracy visual models
• Building and optimising workflows in Azure Machine Learning (AML) for both dev and prod
• Develop and execute best practices for experimentation enabling the team to make data informed decisions
• Contributing to the end-to-end AI pipeline from data ingestion to production deployment

We’re looking for:
• 4+ years in applied data science with a proven record of delivering value
• Hands-on experience with Azure, yolo, and OpenCV
• Proven track record training custom image models on real-world datasets
• Experience deploying to Azure ML production pipelines

• Experience with LLMs in production settings

• Strong understanding of model evaluation, data quality, and performance tuning
• Bonus: Experience in insurance, housing, construction, or related sectors

ALL APPLICANTS MUST BE FREE TO WORK IN THE UK
Exposed Solutions is acting as an employment agency to this client.
Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on any grounds, and we confirm that we will gladly accept applications from any person for this role

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