Senior Machine Learning Scientist

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Senior Machine Learning Scientist developing and deploying advanced Machine Learning models. Collaborating within a multidisciplinary team to tackle business problems in a fintech environment.

Posted 5/18/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 £86,000 - £105,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Play a key role in a multidisciplinary squad collaborating with Machine Learning Scientists, Data Scientists, and other specialists.
Detect suspicious user behaviours while minimizing impact on genuine customers and costs.
Adapt to changing fraud trends, ensuring detection systems remain performant.
Design global machine learning solutions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Track record of deploying advanced Machine Learning models tackling real business problems.
Impact-driven and excited to own the end-to-end journey from business problem to solution.
Passion for sharing knowledge and raising the technical bar across the team.
Self-starter mindset; proactively identify impactful issues and opportunities.
Extensive experience writing production Python code and strong command of SQL.
Experience developing and shipping deep learning, graph-based, and/or sequence-based ML architectures.
Thrive working on ambiguous problems and help teams and stakeholders resolve ambiguity.
Strong communication skills to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Desire to be involved in building a product that prioritizes customer outcomes.

Benefits

Comp & perks

We’ll help you relocate to the UK.
We can sponsor your visa.
This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK.
Flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well.
£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses, and conferences.
Setup for working from home; all employees provided with Macbooks and extra support for remote setup.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Machine LearningPythonSQLdeep learninggraph-based ML architecturessequence-based ML architecturesproduction codedata analysismodel deploymentperformance optimization

Soft Skills

impact-drivenself-starterproactive problem solvingknowledge sharingcommunicationteam collaborationadaptabilitystakeholder engagementambiguity resolutioncustomer focus