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