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We work smarter so that you can enjoy the things that matter outside of work! Job Title: SEN Teacher Location: Brick Lane School, London E2 6DY Salary: Up to £51,000 per annum (depending on experience, not pro rata) Hours: 37.5 hours per week | Monday to Friday | 8.00am - 4.00pm Contract: Permanent | Term Time Only Start: September 2026 UK applicants only. This role does not offer sponsorship. About the Role Are you a passionate and creative SEN Teacher looking for a role where you can truly make a difference? At Brick Lane School, you'll have the opportunity to transform the lives of children and young people with additional needs by delivering engaging, personalised learning that helps every pupil achieve more than they ever thought possible. This is more than a teaching role. It's a chance to work in a specialist setting where relationships come first, small class sizes allow you to focus on every learner, and you'll have the time, support and freedom to teach in a way that makes a genuine impact. Working alongside a skilled multidisciplinary team, you'll create an inclusive, nurturing environment where pupils build confidence, develop independence and rediscover a love of learning. Every achievement is celebrated, every day is different, and your work will have a lasting impact on the futures of the young people you teach. Whether you're an experienced SEN Teacher or looking to bring your skills into specialist education, you'll join a welcoming team that values collaboration, innovation and continuous professional development. What You’ll Do • Plan and deliver engaging, personalised lessons that inspire pupils and enable them to achieve meaningful progress., • Adapt teaching to meet a wide range of learning needs, supporting pupils academically, socially and emotionally., • Develop and review Individual Education Plans (IEPs), behaviour plans and personalised learning pathways., • Monitor, assess and celebrate pupil progress, using assessment to inform future learning., • Promote positive behaviour through nurturing, relationship-based approaches that build confidence and resilience., • Work collaboratively with Learning Support Assistants, therapists, families and the wider multidisciplinary team to provide consistent, holistic support., • Create a safe, stimulating and inclusive classroom environment where every pupil feels valued and able to succeed., • Champion safeguarding and pupil wellbeing, ensuring every child has the opportunity to flourish. What We're Looking For We're looking for someone who: • Holds Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or an equivalent recognised teaching qualification., • Has experience working with children or young people with SEN, SEMH or complex needs (desirable)., • Has experience in EYFS and using multi-sensory teaching approaches (desirable)., • Is creative, patient and adaptable, with the ability to build strong, trusting relationships., • Is passionate about inclusive education and committed to helping every pupil reach their full potential., • Thrives as part of a collaborative team and is keen to continue developing professionally. Join Brick Lane School and become part of a team where your expertise is valued, your wellbeing matters, and every day brings the opportunity to change a young person's future. About Us Brick Lane School is an independent specialist school in East London for autistic pupils. We provide a safe, welcoming environment shaped by Outcomes First Group’s Neurodiversity Strategy, celebrating strengths and individuality. Small classes and personalised education, therapy, and clinical support ensure every pupil’s needs are met. Through positive relationships and a holistic approach, we empower young people to thrive and lead fulfilling lives. For over 19 years, Options Autism has provided specialist care and education for children, young people, and adults with autism, complex needs, and learning difficulties. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are pioneering innovative, evidence-based approaches that deliver meaningful, measurable outcomes for everyone in our care. We are really proud to say that in 2025 Outcomes First Group were officially certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’ for the sixth year running. Why Join Us? We place pupils and vulnerable young adults at the heart of everything we do, so every day brings the satisfaction of making a real difference. We are committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and young people. All applicants will be subject to social media checks and successful applicants to a fully enhanced DBS. • Life Assurance, • Pension scheme with options to increase contributions, • “Your Wellbeing Matters” – mental health support and physical health checks, • Flexible Benefits Platform (Vista), including:, • Health, wellbeing and insurance benefits, • Hundreds of UK and international discounts, • Cycle to Work Scheme & Electric Car Purchase Scheme, • Critical illness cover, • Family Growth Support, including enhanced maternity/paternity leave and paid fertility treatment support We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. Outcomes First Group is committed to carrying out a fair, thorough and efficient recruitment process in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education. Whilst we aim to keep applicants informed throughout, Outcomes First Group does not accept liability for any loss of earnings or other associated costs incurred by applicants as a result of delays or changes in the compliance process. All stages of the compliance process are subject to necessary safeguarding checks and compliance with statutory requirements, which may affect timescales. #1

hackajob is collaborating with BAE Systems Digital Intelligence to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. \n Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : London \n BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments. \n Operational Cyber Researcher \n Job Title: Operational Cyber Researcher \n Job City: London \n Operational Cyber Group is a team of industry-leading experts in high-assurance development, research, reverse engineering, and vulnerability research. \n With a focus on National Security, we work on some of the country’s toughest challenges. Our people provide mission-changing capability for our customers across a wide variety of platforms and technologies. \n We are looking for experienced Researchers that can investigate a wide range of systems and technologies with a focus on discovering and exploiting weaknesses in their design or implementation, and who want to have a meaningful impact on National Security. \n Role Description \n\n • Technical delivery: be able to systematically deconstruct a wide range of technologies and protocols to perform exploratory research and assessment, as well as experimental development (this includes creating prototypes and simulations). \n, • Mentorship, team-leadership, and collaboration: work in teams to deliver high-quality reports, whilst developing junior team-members.\n, • Adaptability: be able to quickly assess new domains and technologies, knowing which tools and methodologies are best suited to the task at hand.\n, • Security mindset: be capable of identifying vulnerabilities and prioritise avenues of research that will deliver the most value to our customers. Have a working knowledge of vulnerability assessment or penetration-testing techniques.\n\n What we are looking for \n\n • Familiarity with a variety of tools (e.g. IDEs, debuggers, source control, Ghidra, FRIDA, Wireshark, VMs) and techniques (e.g. fuzzing, scripting, code injection).\n\n\n, • Intermediate to advanced understanding of computing principles (e.g. stack/heap distinction, compiled/interpreted languages).\n, • Proficiency with at least one programming language and the ability to perform scripting or rapid prototype development.\n, • Ability to use and configure more than one major operating system.\n, • Ability to pick up new languages and technologies easily.\n, • Ability to communicate regarding technical topics to a variety of audiences, including non-technical, through presentations and technical reports.\n, • Experience working with teams and leading technical tasks.\n, • Other desirable skills include: experience performing network traffic analysis, reverse engineering, vulnerability analysis, exploit development, working knowledge of modern cryptography.\n\n Why join us? \n\n • You will receive a dedicated training budget to use during your first year with us. This can cover major cybersecurity conferences such as Black Hat, specialist training, and more.\n, • By joining the Operational Cyber Group, you will be addressing the most critical cyber needs of governments and businesses across the globe, with a meaningful and tangible impact on UK National Security.\n, • Work-life balance is important to us: we can offer a variety of hours to suit individual needs, such as part-time or flexible working, along with a minimum of 25 days of holiday per year.\n, • We offer additional leave to cover Reservist and Cadet Force Adult Volunteer duties.\n, • Our flexible benefits package includes private medical and dental insurance, a competitive pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, childcare vouchers, discount cards and more.\n, • We are a supportive, inclusive and friendly team, committed to helping each other learn and succeed. We have a number of Diversity and Support groups which cover everything from gender diversity to mental health and wellbeing.\n, • With clear career progression pathways, mentorship, as well as ongoing training throughout your career, you can feel confident that your aptitude will be rewarded.\n\n Please be aware that this role is subject to security restrictions. We do not expect you to have a security clearance before applying, but you will need to be eligible to work in the UK and be able to successfully achieve an eDV UK security clearance. For more details see https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetti.... Our recruiters are happy to explain the process. \n Why BAE Systems Digital Intelligence? \n BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments. \n This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments. \n Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence \n We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day. \n By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being. \n Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

hackajob is collaborating with BAE Systems Digital Intelligence to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. \n Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : London \n BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments. \n Cyber Vulnerability Researcher \n Location: London (Southwark) \n These roles require 5 days/ week on site. We offer a range of flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role. \n Who we are \n Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow – shaping a safer future, for all of us. \n From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space – there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you. \n Role description \n We are looking for experienced Vulnerability Researchers and Reverse Engineers who want to have a meaningful and tangible impact on the National Security of the UK. By joining the Operational Cyber Group, you will be addressing the most critical cyber needs of governments and businesses across the globe, with a meaningful and tangible impact on UK National Security. \n Core duties \n\n • Technical delivery: perform vulnerability research and/or reverse engineering on complex and unique challenges, across a myriad of platforms.\n, • Mentorship, team-leadership, and collaboration: deliver your research as part of a team, whilst knowledge-sharing and mentoring junior team-members.\n, • Adaptability: work across a range of tools and platforms, picking up new ones or developing bespoke tooling when needed.\n, • Customer focus: understand what our customers consider to be mission-critical, and how to deliver in line with those needs.\n\n What we are looking for \n\n • Experience in vulnerability research, reverse engineering, or exploit development (professional background or other e.g. capture the flag challenges, bug bounties).\n, • Familiarity with a variety of tools and platforms (Ghidra, IDA, Unicorn, debuggers, Android, iOS…).\n, • Knowledge of low-level programming languages across the application stack.\n, • Understanding of the exploit development lifecycle from identifying bugs up to fully developed proof of concepts.\n, • Ability to communicate regarding technical topics to a variety of audiences, including non-technical.\n\n The team \n Operational Cyber Group is a team of industry-leading experts in high-assurance development, research, reverse engineering, and vulnerability research. With a focus on National Security, we work on some of the country’s toughest challenges. Our people provide mission-changing capability for our customers across a wide variety of platforms and technologies. \n Why BAE Systems? \n Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work – this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family – support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make. \n A place where everyone can thrive. \n We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do. \n We welcome applications from all candidates and give full, fair and open consideration to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please contact our recruitment team to discuss any further support you may need. \n Security statement \n Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks. \n Applicants for these particular roles will need to be able to successfully achieve an eDV UK security clearance. For more details see https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetti... \n Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence \n We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day. \n By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being. \n Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

hackajob is collaborating with Vanguard to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. \n We are seeking a researcher to help deepen our understanding of the decisions people make about saving, investing, and retirement. \n We are seeking a researcher to help deepen our understanding of the decisions people make about saving, investing, and retirement. \n Team & Opportunity \n The Investment Strategy Group (ISG) is a global team that serves as Vanguard’s in-house research team, with subject matter experts based in North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. The team produce industry-leading papers and publications that help shape perspectives, play a central role in developing Vanguard’s investment and advice methodology, and inform decisions about our investment offerings and strategies. As the Behavioural Economics Team within ISG, we aim to discover, share, and apply breakthrough insights about investor behaviour to drive better decisions and outcomes for all investors. \n We are seeking a researcher to help deepen our understanding of the decisions people make about saving, investing, and retirement. Your work will generate thought leadership with applications to Vanguard business, media, public policy, and the academic research community. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to work with senior business partners to inform Vanguard products and services as well as collaborate on data analysis, surveys and experiments. \n Vanguard has incredible people and an inspiring mission: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success. If you are interested in making a positive impact on the retirement outcomes of households and have a passion for data, research, and working in teams, this is a great opportunity for you. Vanguard is fully committed to having a diverse and inclusive working environment. This role will be based in London, UK. \n In this role, you will: \n · Conduct research that is scientifically rigorous, relevant to millions of investors, timely and impactful. Analyze administrative data, surveys, experiments, third-party and public datasets, distilling data into compelling visualizations and “killer charts” to tell differentiated stories. \n · Help shape Vanguard’s house view on behavioural economics, household finance, retirement savings and spending, investment advice, and public policy. Distill insights into high-impact written materials, including research memos, articles, blog posts, white papers, and academic papers. \n · Serve as an ambassador for Vanguard by presenting your research to a wide range of audiences, from internal business partners to investors, advisors, and industry and academic conferences. \n · Provide consultation services and act as a subject matter expert. Prepare and deliver insight presentations and action recommendations. Communicate complex analytical findings and implications to business partners in ways that inform Vanguard products and services. \n · Conduct rapid data analytics to support Vanguard’s response to media and regulator inquiries. \n · Keep up with latest trends in behavioral economics and retirement, identifying new ways to amplify research rigor and impact. Work with academic partners in research collaborations. \n · Participate in group discussions designed to identify and debate investment issues and potential research projects. Develop recommendations on new research topics or methodology issues. \n · Proactively identify opportunities to enhance team research capabilities, such as new data sources or analytic techniques. \n What it takes: \n Please do not be put off from applying if you do not meet all the criteria in the below. \n · Advanced degree (Masters or PhD) in Economics, Finance, Psychology, Decision Sciences, or a related quantitative field required. Doctoral degree (PhD) preferred.) \n · Minimum of five years related work experience in research roles or equivalent educational experience \n · Experience conducting, writing, and publishing research on behavioral economics, household finance, retirement, and/or investing strongly preferred. Able to explain complex concepts to non-technical audiences. \n · Proven experience writing code to access, transform, and analyze data. Proficient at analysing large datasets, identifying trends, and assessing the significance of changes. \n · Intellectual curiosity and a passion for generating and pursuing “big ideas” for “aha” insights through research. \n · Team-first orientation and openness to learning new ideas, skills, and ways of working with a diverse set of teammates and stakeholders (e.g., employers, financial advisors and institutions, individual investors, and policymakers). \n · Be capable of producing high-quality analysis to tight deadlines. Excellent time management and organisational skills. \n Special Factors \n · Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position. \n · Role Designation: Certified Person \n · This position is hybrid based in London and would require you to work in the office on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. \n How We Work \n Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.

hackajob is collaborating with Google to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. \n The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Safety and Alignment Team (ASAT) aims to reduce existential and catastrophic risk from AGI and eventually Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). We research novel techniques and work with the rest of GDM and Google to apply them. We advise executive leadership on safety. \n ASAT has sub-teams specialising in making future Geminis more thoroughly aligned by finding and fixing sources of misalignment and exploring alignment techniques with better generalization. Preparing for future AGI risks by simulating them today and using interpretability techniques to understand AI and solve practical problems like model forensics or eval awareness. Building control for GDM’s agents as defense-in-depth against potential misaligned internal deployments. Researching training techniques, like debate, for aligning superhuman AI and ways to retain, improve, and measure monitorability. Researching and implementing ways to assess the ways in which a given model might be imperfectly aligned and developing and implementing tools and AI assistance that accelerates safety research. Advising executive leadership on risks posed by AI systems via the frontier safety framework based on our threat models and evaluations. \n We are prioritising hires for deep alignment, alignment stress testing, language model interpretability, agent control, and amplified oversight. We are looking to grow our team with researchers and engineers. Depending on your background, we have opportunities available as both Research Scientists and Software Engineers. \n Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority. \n We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort. \n Minimum qualifications: \n\n • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related Software Engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.\n, • 3 years of experience in software development, ML engineering, or ML research.\n, • Experience working with research teams.\n\n Preferred qualifications: \n\n • Experience conducting or contributing to applied research to improve the safety and alignment of frontier AI systems.\n, • Experience with training large models (e.g., supervised finetuning, RLHF).\n\n Responsibilities: \n\n • Research new alignment methods, studying alignment failures, and applying AGI-scalable alignment techniques to frontier models.\n, • Develop adversarially robust AGI control systems and implement them in production.\n, • Research interpretability techniques to understand what AI systems are ‘thinking’.\n, • Work with product teams to ensure that our research is correctly adopted.\n

hackajob is collaborating with J.P. Morgan to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. \n JOB DESCRIPTION \n Quantitative Trading & Research (QTR) is an expert group in J.P.Morgan specializing in statistical modelling, data analytics, balance sheet optimization and other quantitative methods to support the Commercial and Investment Bank (CIB). The QTR Securities Services and Payments team applies cutting-edge AI/ML techniques to fundamentally transform the way we do business by enabling business revenue growth and efficiency within the CIB organization. \n Job Summary \n As an Associate or a Vice President in the Quantitative Trading & Research (QTR) Securities Services and Payments, you will support the business in tackling their most technically complex business problems to optimize revenue and manage risks. This could range from developing AI/ML applications that make business-critical predictions such as client pricing, to handling vast data sets using the J.P.Morgan's Cloud capabilities or optimal hedging policies for interest rate risk management. You will be in tight partnership with the business in identifying their most pressing pain points and iterating towards a solution that really works for them. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems using your quantitative background and experience, this may be just the team for you. \n Job responsibilities \n\n • Work with business leads to develop AI/ML-driven analytics and automation that support their business goals.\n, • Build up a scalable data architecture to handle the large volume of transaction data\n, • Automate existing manual processes and build tools to enable the business to optimize their decision making and deposit management\n, • Build sequential decision making tools to optimize the net interest income of the business under various liquidity, capital and balance sheet constraints\n, • Drive projects end-to-end, from brainstorming, prototyping, data processing, data analysis to model development\n, • Make real-world, commercial recommendations through effective presentations to various stakeholders\n, • Leverage data visualization to communicate quantitative insights to help business decision-making\n, • Work closely with colleagues in Quantitative Research, CIB Treasury, Chief Investment Office, Technology and the Chief Data and Analytics Office (CDAO) to drive the CIB data strategy forward\n\n Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills \n\n • Advanced degree (PhD or MS) or equivalent in a quantitative field: Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, etc\n, • Robust understanding of Machine Learning, Statistics, and Mathematics, both in fundamentals as well as in application\n, • Experience in tackling real world data science problems, end-to-end from prototype to production, using Python\n, • Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) and the ability to present findings to a non-technical audience\n, • Passion for learning, sharing knowledge, building collaborations, and getting things done\n\n Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills \n\n • Participation in KDD/Kaggle competition, Hackathons or contribution to GitHub\n, • You demonstrate hands-on experience in solving sequential decision making problems\n, • Experience in applying LLMs and/or deep learning methods to solve business problems\n, • Experience in working with Cloud and/or HPC environments\n\n ABOUT US \n J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives. \n We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation. \n ABOUT THE TEAM \n J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.

hackajob is collaborating with Dunnhumby Ltd to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. \n dunnhumby is the global leader in Customer Data Science, partnering with the world’s most ambitious retailers and brands to put the customer at the heart of every decision. We combine deep insight, advanced technology, and close collaboration to help our clients grow, innovate, and deliver measurable value for their customers. \n dunnhumby employs nearly 2,500 experts in offices throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas working for transformative, iconic brands such as Tesco, Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Unilever and Metro. \n Joining the AI Strategy, Research & Enablement team, you’ll help shape the future of AI across the organisation. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge research and real-world commercial application, you’ll turn innovative ideas into scalable capabilities that influence products, platforms, and long-term strategy. You’ll collaborate with senior leaders and contribute to decision-making across data science, engineering, and product, helping to prioritise and advance the right AI investments for the future. \n We’re looking for a Senior Research Data Scientist to play a key role in developing dunnhumby’s next-generation models across a range of strategic AI initiatives. As part of this newly formed team, you’ll focus on advanced modelling, long-term capability building, and cross-industry collaboration. You’ll design new approaches, build and test prototypes, support engineering teams with productionisation, and contribute to partnerships with academia and external research organisations. \n What you’ll be doing: \n\n • Drive the design, experimentation, and evaluation of transformer-based models on retail based challenges.\n, • Explore innovative architectures (e.g., sequence-to-sequence models, causal transformers, hybrid retrieval + transformer approaches) to deliver step-change improvements in personalisation, recommendations, and forecasting.\n, • Develop research-grade prototypes and collaborate with engineers to translate them into scalable, production-ready solutions.\n, • Conduct forward-looking research on generative AI, multimodal learning, and representation learning.\n, • Identify emerging AI/ML techniques with high potential for retail and consumer analytics, shaping conceptual prototypes and feasibility assessments.\n, • Drive internal thought leadership by defining standards, sharing knowledge, and advising product, engineering, and data science teams on ML adoption and best practices.\n, • Work with leading academic groups and private-sector research partners to co-develop new modelling approaches, run joint experiments, or explore cutting-edge AI applications.\n, • Mentor other data scientists and contribute to growing organisational capability in deep learning and advanced ML.\n, • Partner closely with internal teams to ensure research pathways are aligned with available tooling and future platform strategy.\n, • Document best practices and contribute to reusable assets, libraries, and internal frameworks.\n\n What we expect from you: \n\n • Expertise in transformer architectures (e.g., BERT, GPT, T5, Time‑Series Transformers).\n, • Strong hands-on experience with modern deep learning frameworks (PyTorch preferred).\n, • Solid grounding in machine learning fundamentals and statistical modelling.\n, • Familiarity with distributed training and GPU acceleration.\n, • A track record of delivering impactful models in production or research settings.\n, • Ability to take ambiguous research ideas and shape them into structured investigations or prototypes.\n, • Curiosity and a learning mindset — tracking state-of-the-art advancements and evaluating their relevance.\n, • Strong data manipulation and engineering skills (e.g., PySpark, SQL, cloud-based data tooling).\n, • Strong communication skills, capable of explaining complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences.\n, • Collaborative approach to working with ML engineers, product managers, academic partners, and leadership stakeholders.\n, • A passion for turning cutting‑edge modelling ideas into practical business impact.\n, • A mindset that blends scientific curiosity with real-world pragmatism.\n, • Enthusiasm for shaping the next generation of AI capabilities at dunnhumby, both through hands-on modelling and strategic influence.\n\n Nice to have \n\n • Experience in retail, CPG, recommendations, or customer behaviour modelling.\n, • Engagement with academic research (publications, workshops, industry collaborations).\n, • Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval techniques.\n, • Experience Working on large datasets (efficient loading, batching, and streaming) and related tooling (PySpark preferred).\n\n What you can expect from us \n We won’t just meet your expectations. We’ll defy them. So you’ll enjoy the comprehensive rewards package you’d expect from a leading technology company. But also, a degree of personal flexibility you might not expect. Plus, thoughtful perks, like flexible working hours and your birthday off. \n You’ll also benefit from an investment in cutting-edge technology that reflects our global ambition. But with a nimble, small-business feel that gives you the freedom to play, experiment and learn. \n And we don’t just talk about diversity and inclusion. We live it every day – with thriving networks including dh Gender Equality Network, dh Proud, dh Family, dh One, dh Enabled and dh Thrive as the living proof. We want everyone to have the opportunity to shine and perform at your best throughout our recruitment process. Please let us know how we can make this process work best for you. \n Our approach to Flexible Working \n At dunnhumby, we value and respect difference and are committed to building an inclusive culture by creating an environment where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. \n We believe that you will do your best at work if you have a work / life balance. Some roles lend themselves to flexible options more than others, so if this is important to you please raise this with your recruiter, as we are open to discussing agile working opportunities during the hiring process. \n For further information about how we collect and use your personal information please see our Privacy Notice which can be found (here)