NSL – Data Scientist

Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK :
London

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.

Job Description

Are you passionate about working with cutting-edge AI/ML technology? Are you self-motivated to find innovative solutions to complex challenges as part of a team who help keep the UK safe? Join BAE Systems as an experienced Data Scientist.

As part of our AI team, you will be working with our National Security Customers to understand their business challenges and identity where AI/ML-based solutions can add value. You will lead on discovery activities to explore opportunities for applying data science techniques to solve customer problems. Working with them, you'll test assumptions on the effectiveness of AI/ML to meet their needs.

You will work as part of an empowered, multi-disciplinary AI team who's purpose is to develop common AI propositions that will benefit a range of our customers. Working alongside ML Engineers, AI Strategy Lead and Delivery Management you will help shape and execute our AI Strategy focussed on:

Our Customers:  Elaborate user needs and measure AI value

Our Position:  Establish our market position and define our USP

Our

Skills:

Develop our career paths and learning plans for AI

Our Partners:  Understand technology partner capabilities and build our AI partner ecosystem

Our

Innovation:  Learn through AI experiments and demonstrate pull-through to product development

Working in a small team you'll be given as much ownership and responsibility as you have the appetite for, but be part of our much bigger National Security community that will give you the support you need to grow in your career. Our unique customers have interesting, complex data they wish to exploit. You will demonstrate the potential of applying data science approaches to meet their business needs.

You will be expected to develop, test and validate machine learning models, providing guidance to others where needed. As a leading AI expert you'll provide strategic & technical advice to our customers, and consider the ethical implications of applying data science approaches in the context of customers mission.

We're embarking upon a pivotal period that will significantly grow our AI capability, where you will be leading on the development of innovative products & services that support our customers mission. Our senior leadership team will seek your advice on how best to position our AI proposition to customers.

You'll have the opportunity to get to know our own business and work with people across a diverse range of professional backgrounds. This is an exciting time to join our team to help pioneer both our customer's and our own AI adoption journey. Not only will you be directly making a huge impact through the solutions you develop, you’ll be doing it for an organisation who makes a huge impact to the security of the UK.

About you

You will have experience in many of the following:

Analysis of user needs and advising on the use of relevant standards, methods, tools, frameworks and processes for data science.

Creatively applying innovative thinking and design practices to identify solutions that will deliver value for the benefit of the customer/stakeholder.

Employing data science algorithms and methods for complex data processing, statistical analysis and advanced analytics.

Collaboratively designing & building prototypes and Proof of Concept solutions.

Conduct data preparation, modelling, labelling and transformation of 'messy' data, to make ready for the application of data science techniques.

Applying AI/ML approaches through design, development and optimisation of machine learning solutions.

Understanding of ethical, privacy, security and policy concerns relevant to the application of AI/ML.

Coding of complex programs and scripts, expert in Python programming.

Supervising junior analysts/scientists and ML engineers, providing guidance &…