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Principal Data Scientist

La Fosse
City of London
1 month ago
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Logistics AI Company (Up to £120,000 per annum)

London (4 days per week in office)


La Fosse have partnered with a ambitious AI company transforming how businesses in the logistics sector operate. La Fosse are supporting this rapidly expanding AI business in preparing for an international launch, we’re now looking for a Senior and Principal Data Scientist.


What you’ll be doing:

  • Build, deploy, and scale machine learning systems that forecast demand, optimise staffing, and improve operational performance across thousands of venues.
  • Lead projects end-to-end, from data design and modelling through to validation, deployment, and monitoring.
  • Develop AI systems across areas such as computer vision, forecasting, optimisation, and emerging generative or agentic models.
  • Partner with engineers to design scalable ML pipelines, APIs, and real-time infrastructure.


About you:

  • Background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Data Science, or AI (Master’s or PhD preferred).
  • 5+ years’ experience developing and deploying ML models in production environments.
  • Strong Python skills, with experience in frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Hugging Face.
  • Confident working in AWS or similar cloud environments (SageMaker, Lambda, Docker, etc.).
  • Experienced in (or eager to explore) areas such as forecasting, optimisation, reinforcement learning, generative AI, or computer vision.
  • Solid engineering mindset, you know how to take models from research to production and keep them running reliably.
  • Curious, proactive, and excited to work in a fast-moving environment where AI drives everything we do.


Ready to build AI that transforms how real-world operations run?

Apply now and help shape the future of intelligent logistics.

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