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Senior AI Engineer / Data Scientist - AI RegTech, SC Ventures

Standard Chartered
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1 month ago
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Job Summary

We're an ambitious new venture backed by leading investors and operating at the intersection of AI, regulation, and financial services. Our focus is on reimagining how institutions navigate regulatory complexity - using cutting-edge technology to bring clarity, speed, and confidence to critical decision-making processes.

While still early in our journey, we're already working closely with a select group of enterprise clients and partners who share our belief that modern compliance needs a fundamentally different approach. Our team brings together deep domain expertise, product thinking, and a bias toward building - fast.

We're at an exciting inflection point - with clear direction, client focus and a fast-growing team. You'll be joining us as we lay the foundations of a new venture designed for long term impact across financial services

  • We believe speed comes from quality, automation, and solving the right problems.
  • We always leave things better than we found them.
  • We start with the end in mind.
  • We iterate quickly.
  • If you build it, you fix it.
  • We trust each other and ask for help.
  • If you're in a hole, stop digging.

Key Responsibilities

You are accountable for the quality of our AI output. You are responsible for the design, experimentation, and deployment of cutting-edge AI solutions that directly impact our customers. Collaborate with leadership, customers, and product teams to solve real business challenges and drive innovation.

Elevate our AI capabilities - take a good system and make it exceptional. You'll identify opportunities, run experiments, and deliver robust solutions that continuously improve our platform.

Skills and Experience

  • Your curiosity lets you ask what if, and surprise us again, and again.
  • Proven track record delivering impactful ML/AI solutions in production.
  • Deep expertise in Python and modern AI/ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, NumPy, Pandas).
  • Hands-on experience with GenAI, agentic AI, and automated testing for AI systems.
  • Curiosity and creativity to challenge assumptions and explore new approaches.
  • Strong communication skills and a passion for clear, concise documentation.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

  • Do the right thingand are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
  • Never settle,continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
  • Are better together,we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter,we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

  • Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance,with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
  • Time-offincluding annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
  • Flexible workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
  • Proactive wellbeing supportthrough Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
  • A continuous learning cultureto support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
  • Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation,one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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