Forward Deployed Engineer / Data Scientist

Forward Deployed Engineer / Data Scientist

Location: London (Hybrid)

Salary: 60,000 - 75,000 + Equity

Gravitas is recruiting on behalf of a fast-growing, AI-led fintech start-up thats transforming how financial institutions leverage intelligent systems. Theyre looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer / Data Scientist to join their London-based team and become a key contributor to the companys growth and product evolution .

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with 3+ years experience in a customer-facing data science role, who thrives in dynamic environments and enjoys solving complex, real-world problems.

What Youll Be Doing

• Working directly with SMEs in banking and wealth management to extract business logic, often undocumented and distributed across teams.
• Building semantic ingestion systems that prepare data for AI training and deployment.
• Engineering high-efficacy, low-latency outputs, whether in code, documents, or structured checklists.
• Collaborating with AI Engineers to structure agent-based models that generate JSON outputs and populate end-user documents.
• Contributing to productisation efforts and developing technical best practices for scalable delivery.
• Managing stakeholders and technical implementation with clarity and confidence.

What Youll Bring

• Minimum 3 years experience in a customer-facing data science or engineering role.
• Strong programming skills and ability to collaborate effectively with AI Engineers.
• Experience in extracting business logic from domain experts.
• A proactive mindset with a focus on productisation, documentation, and scalable solutions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Whats on Offer

• Competitive salary: 60,000 - 75,000
• Equity in a high-growth start-up
• Hybrid working model with flexibility
• A chance to be a core part of a company building the future of AI in financial services
• Work on innovative systems with real-world impact