Senior Data Scientist, DARe (Defence AI Research Centre)

HOURS: 36

CLOSES: 22 June 2025 at 23:59

The Alan Turing Institute

Named in honour of Alan Turing, the Institute is a place for inspiring, exciting work and we need passionate, sharp, and innovative people who want to use their skills to contribute to our mission to make great leaps in data science and AI research to change the world for the better.

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BACKGROUND

The Defence & Security programme at Turing is looking to expand a newly formed team of data scientists working on real-world problems in the radio frequency domain aligned with defending and securing the UK.  The in the Defence Artificial Intelligence Research (DARe) centre is  working in domains as diverse as: future sensing, space systems, human-machine teaming, synthetic environments, and edge AI. Senior Data Scientists perform investigations based on tasking from D&S partners to derisk new technologies and create proof-of-concept work to inform future research. 

DUTIES AND AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

• Application of modern AI techniques/algorithms (e.g. GNNs, transformers, autoencoders, reinforcement learning) for automated real time analysis and exploitation of multiple data sources
• Develop novel multi-modal AI approaches to the fusion of data from multiple sensors 
• Develop and assure novel state of the art AI architectures across a variety of domains including radio frequency, edge AI, and AI security
• Develop new projects in conjunction with colleagues, authoring research proposals and agreeing involvement in activities across the institute.
• Provide technical leadership and project management on multi-person projects (2 to 4 people) 

Person Specification

• PhD or significant professional experience in the area with both computer programming and advanced statistical or numerical methods.
• Practical experience applying Machine Learning to real world problems or strong theoretical knowledge and academic experience with Machine Learning and adjacent topics.
• Demonstrable experience developing novel algorithms for transmitting, processing and analysing radio frequency signals or AI for physics/maths/engineering/communications and networks/radar problem sets.
• Fluency in one or more modern programming languages.
• Experience working with customers to identify, understand and refine problems, scoping data science work to solve them.
• Experience leading a research project in AI or Radar or Communications and Networks.
• Strong publication record.
• Direct experience developing and deploying technologies in support of Defence and National Security organisations (desirable).
• Eligibility for UK/NATO security clearance 

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Terms and Conditions

This full-time post is offered on a fixed term basis until 31 March 2027. The annual salary is £54,611 to £62,381 plus excellent benefits, including flexible working and family friendly policies, Employee-only benefits guide | The Alan Turing Institute. 

All applicants must be willing to undergo, and capable of achieving, SC clearance once in post. A successful candidate will be subject to a Dstl research workers check at offer stage.

The Alan Turing Institute is based at the British Library. We expect staff to come to our office at least 4 days per month; the hiring manager will be able to confirm this during the interview.

Application procedure

Please see our jobs portal for full details on how to apply and the interview process. 

Equality Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to making sure our recruitment process is accessible and inclusive.

This includes making reasonable adjustments for candidates who have a disability or long-term condition. Please contact us at adjustments@turing.ac.uk  to find out how we can assist you.

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