Applied AI Scientist

AI Connect is partnering with a major UK bank to appoint an Applied AI Research Scientist to join their growing Applied AI function. The role involves designing, developing, and evaluating modern deep learning models that support customer intelligence across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Research, design and develop modern deep learning models using transformer-based architectures
• Build and evaluate Foundation Models that learn rich customer representations from transactional data
• Design, implement and optimise training pipelines using frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow
• Experiment with different model architectures, training objectives and evaluation techniques to improve model performance
• Work with embeddings, representation learning and transformer methodologies to solve complex AI problems
• Collaborate closely with Applied AI Engineers and ML Platform Engineers to transition research into production environments
• Contribute to technical direction through scientific experimentation, model evaluation and architectural decision making