Machine Learning Scientist - Freelance

Senior Machine Learning Scientist | Generative AI Applications

About the Project

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, train and evaluate machine learning models for GenAI applications.
• Research and apply state-of-the-art techniques in Large Language Models (LLMs), NLP, Computer Vision, recommendation systems and agent-based architectures.
• Build scalable AI solutions that support customer-facing products.
• Develop clean, reusable and production-ready code.
• Perform detailed data analysis, feature engineering and model evaluation.
• Define success metrics and drive experimentation frameworks.
• Collaborate closely with Machine Learning Engineers to optimise model performance, latency and scalability.
• Work with Product Managers, Data Scientists and Analysts to translate business requirements into AI solutions.
• Support deployment of models into production environments.

Required Skills

• Strong experience with Generative AI, LLMs, NLP and/or Computer Vision.
• Experience developing machine learning products at scale.
• MSc with 3+ years of relevant industry experience or PhD with 2+ years of experience.
• Proven expertise across data science, model development, experimentation and software engineering.
• Strong Python skills.
• Experience with Java, Kafka, Hadoop, SQL and Spark.
• Experience working with large datasets and distributed computing environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Fluent English communication skills.

Ideal Candidate

• Published research, patents or open-source contributions are highly desirable.
• Experience building customer-facing AI products.
• Comfortable working in multidisciplinary environments.
• Passionate about applying cutting-edge AI research to real-world business problems.