CareerPlan

Head of Machine Learning and Data Science

London, England, United KingdomFull-time2026-10-28 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead the ML team to build and maintain computer vision models for food waste tracking in hospitality kitchens, ensuring high accuracy for waste data and production forecasting.

Role type

Senior IC machine learning leader (computer vision)

Builds

Computer vision models for food recognition, waste classification, and production forecasting

Domain

FoodTech / Hospitality / Computer Vision

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Computer vision (object detection/tracking/classification), ML team leadership, ML operations, data quality management, model evaluation, cloud and edge computing, LLM strategy

Preferred skills

Vision-language models, vendor model evaluation, privacy/responsible AI, hardware integration

Technologies

Computer vision frameworks, cloud infrastructure, edge computing, annotation tools

Responsibilities

Set technical strategy for core CV pipeline, lead a team of 4 data scientists, manage ML investment cases, oversee data quality and annotation processes, drive model performance improvements, partner with product and engineering teams

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership