Applied Scientist

Job Title: Applied Scientist

Job Description

As an Applied Scientist, you will engage in prompt engineering, evaluation, and fine-tuning of LLMs to enhance performance. This role offers an opportunity to work alongside a diverse and talented team in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Understand the stack and workflow from user query to response generation.
• Identify major challenges and quantify them.
• Conduct literature reviews on the latest academic and industry approaches.
• Prepare a one-pager outlining hypotheses, evaluation plans, and proposed solutions.
• Transition from research to implementation and evaluation.
• Participate in scrums, flight reviews, and experiment reviews.
• Balance research and engineering tasks, approximately 50% each.

Essential Skills

• Solid foundation in traditional machine learning principles.
• Familiarity with LLMs, GPTs, transformers, and deep learning concepts.
• Proficiency in Python and optimisation techniques.
• Ability to analyse and persist through failed experiments.
• Comfortable with technical discussions and concise business summaries.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience in AI, deep learning, research, and development.

Why Work Here?

Benefit from guided onboarding through tooling and stack, access to senior scientists for both technical and pastoral support, and a collaborative environment with regular reviews and consultations.

Reading, UK

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