CareerPlan

Senior Data Scientist

LondonFull-time£85k–£145k2026-11-07 → 2026-11-08

Core

Own machine-learning models in production that detect AI-enabled threats (prompt injection, data exfiltration, policy violations) and analyze detection performance for customers.

Role type

Senior IC machine-learning engineer (AI security)

Builds

Low-latency detection models, distilled models, rules-plus-ML ensembles, and evaluation benchmarks

Domain

AI security, cybersecurity, frontier AI research

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, PyTorch, NLP, LLM fine-tuning, embeddings, classification, LLM-as-judge, statistics, drift analysis, fuzzy problem measurement

Preferred skills

adversarial ML, safety models, content-moderation models, published work on evaluations or AI security

Technologies

Python, PyTorch

Responsibilities

Train and tune classifiers for risky AI activity; design low-latency models; analyze production telemetry for drift and false positives; build evaluation benchmarks; translate policies into measurable controls

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC