Applied AI Research Scientist – London or Edinburgh (Remote)

Competitive Six Figure Package

AI Connect are partnering with a major UK bank to help them appoint an Applied AI Research Scientist to join a growing Applied AI function developing next-generation AI capability.

You'll join a highly technical research team responsible for designing, developing and evaluating modern deep learning models that underpin customer intelligence across the organisation. Working with large-scale transactional and behavioural datasets, you'll help develop transformer-based foundation models that support a wide range of downstream AI applications.

This is a genuine applied research role, combining scientific rigour with real-world business impact.

What You'll Do

• 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.