Junior Data Scientist

329371BR

London

Full Time

Are you passionate about AI/ML, programming, and automation? Do you have technical expertise in design, software development, and modeling? Do you aspire to develop the next generation of AI business applications?

As a Data Scientist, you will collaborate with our data science and business teams to build state-of-the-art models, and perform exploratory analysis on new and existing data to identify, investigate, and solve challenges. You should be comfortable applying a variety of techniques to find the best results and capable of researching new methods to trial. You will work closely within a small team where collaboration is key to achieving our common goals.

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• Collaborate with the business to assess opportunities for AI/data analytics technologies and maximize their value/impact for our clients
  
• Support the design of AI/data analytics solution architecture and work with stakeholders to develop implementation roadmaps
  
• Support AI/data analytics solution implementation and deployment
  
• Develop, maintain, and deploy LLM, machine learning, and natural language processing pipelines and models with high performance, quality, and stability
  
• Partner with the business to integrate AI and machine learning solutions across various strategic platforms. Models may span across a variety of domains, including but not limited to: LLM-based agentic AI architectures, natural language processing (e.g., document classification, named entity recognition, topic modeling, advanced and semantic information search, extraction), data analytics (predictive modeling, time-series analytics, pattern recognition, recommendation engines), computer vision (OCR), and voice recognition (speech-to-text)
  
• Research and build POCs for new and innovative AI solutions and technologies.
  

You’ll be working in the IB AI Center of Excellence team in London, focusing on building AI products across the Investment Bank. The AI solutions we build support our colleagues in working more efficiently, reducing the risks we face as a bank, and generating more revenues. Moreover, our products ensure that our clients receive timely and personalized content. As a Data Scientist, you’ll play an important role in shaping the AI landscape within the IB.

Diversity helps us grow together. That’s why we are committed to fostering and advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion. It strengthens our business and brings value to our clients.

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• Master's degree or higher in a quantitative or scientific field
  
• Experience in designing and developing enterprise-scale AI and NLP solutions in the areas of Named Entity Recognition, Document Classification, Document Summarization, Topic Modeling, Sentiment Analysis, and OCR text processing
  
• Experience building ML & NLP solutions using common ML libraries and frameworks, including Pandas, Sklearn, TensorFlow, SparkML, Pytorch, etc
  
• Skilled in end-to-end development of ML/NLP models (supervised & unsupervised), including data cleaning, pipeline creation for structured/unstructured data, feature engineering, model selection/ensembles, evaluation metrics, visualization, and advanced statistical modeling (regression, spatial, time series)
  
• Programming experience in one or more of the following: Python, R, Scala, C/C++, Matlab, SQL/Postgres, etc. Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Git, and GitHub/GitLab
  
• Familiarity with Agentic AI frameworks such as LangGraph, AutoGen, etc is a plus
  
• Experience working in project-based teams, collaborating with colleagues, interacting with stakeholders, working to deadlines, and delivering projects that solve specific business problems.
  

UBS is the world’s largest and the only truly global wealth manager. We operate through four business divisions: Global Wealth Management, Personal & Corporate Banking, Asset Management and the Investment Bank. Our global reach and the breadth of our expertise set us apart from our competitors.

We have a presence in all major financial centers in more than 50 countries.

At UBS, we know that it's our people, with their diverse skills, experiences and backgrounds, who drive our ongoing success. We’re dedicated to our craft and passionate about putting our people first, with new challenges, a supportive team, opportunities to grow and flexible working options when possible. Our inclusive culture brings out the best in our employees, wherever they are on their career journey. And we use artificial intelligence (AI) to work smarter and more efficiently. We also recognize that great work is never done alone. That’s why collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. Because together, we’re more than ourselves.

We’re committed to disability inclusion and if you need reasonable accommodation/adjustments throughout our recruitment process, you can always contact us.

UBS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We respect and seek to empower each individual and support the diverse cultures, perspectives, skills and experiences within our workforce.