Data Scientist - Defence
Core
Design and deploy AI/ML solutions for UK and European defence programmes to keep aircraft and platforms mission-ready, sharpen decision-making, and sustain operations in contested environments.
Role type
Senior IC machine learning engineer (defence)
Builds
Predictive maintenance systems, digital targeting tools, and logistics solutions for aircraft and platforms
Domain
Defence / Aerospace / AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
machine learning algorithms, generative AI, agentic solutions, regression and classification, supervised and unsupervised learning, linear algebra, calculus, probability and statistics, scalable ML (MapReduce, streaming)
Preferred skills
JavaScript, Python, R, Java, Scala
Technologies
C3 AI Suite, MapReduce, streaming
Responsibilities
Lead research, design, implementation, and deployment of ML algorithms and intelligent agents for enterprise applications; Analyse model performance across asset fleets and recommend hyperparameter adjustments; Collaborate with subject matter experts to validate and interpret new data elements
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC