Forward Deployed Scientist I

This is one of the most exciting problems in applied AI right now: take the cutting edge of machine learning, optimisation, and agentic systems, and make it work inside real businesses — not in a lab, but on live customer problems where the answer has to hold up commercially. As a Forward Deployed Scientist I, in our Supply Chain & Retail business, you’ll work directly with some of the world’s biggest retailers and manufacturers on hard, high-stakes problems: demand forecasting, price and promotion optimisation, and supply-chain decisioning. You’ll own the science end-to-end — from understanding a customer’s messy reality to shipping something that changes how they operate.

Responsibilities

Own customer engagements end-to-end; Apply and adapt frontier ML, forecasting, and optimisation techniques — and increasingly agentic AI — to problems that don’t have a textbook answer; Turn what works on the ground into product direction; Operate with genuine autonomy across a wide range of stakeholders; Stay at the edge of what’s possible in applied AI and bring it back to the team

Requirements

Strong track record applying ML / data science to real-world commercial problems; The instinct to own outcomes, not tasks; Fluent programming (Python and SQL); Excellent communication — ability to take a customer executive from confusion to confidence and explain complex models to a non-technical room; Comfort with ambiguity, direct customer contact, and the pace of a team that ships

Nice to have

Depth in forecasting, optimisation, or supply-chain / pricing; Experience with agentic / LLM-based systems; Building ML in production