Senior AI Scientist

At ieso everyone is committed to the same goal: transforming the way mental health problems are treated worldwide. As one of the UK’s largest and most trusted providers of digital mental healthcare, the work we do already changes lives every single day. But our mental healthcare revolution is just getting started.

We are now looking for a Senior AI Scientist who will design and implement solutions for using advanced AI techniques, including natural language processing, dialogue systems, and deep learning applied to making a real positive impact into patient care. In this role, you would be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing the scientific support needed to drive the delivery of the solution.

We have a 180-strong team and a health and well-being package to support you each and every day, as we all strive to achieve our collective ambition.

Reporting to: Director of AI Research

Location: Hybrid preferred (1-2 days per week in our Cambridge office). UK Home-Based also considered.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design NLP-based approaches, using state-of-the-art techniques, to solve problems relevant to the treatment of mental health conditions.
• Design and implement experiments to provide proof of concept and validate technical approaches.
• Coordinate the activity of junior researchers and interns.
• Present the scientific and technical work of the team, internally and externally.
• Monitor scientific work and identify advances in the current state of the art that may be applicable to the team’s and company’s activities.

Requirements

Essential:

• PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Maths, Physics, or other science fields, or equivalent;
• Proven experience as an effective researcher in either the academic or industrial environment;
• Strong NLP expertise, including the application of machine-learning/deep-learning, approaches to NLP;
• Solid understanding of machine learning techniques;
• Proven ability to get things done.

Desirable:

• Specialisation in natural language processing, speech processing, dialogue systems, linguistics, or related area.
• Experience with dialogue or question-answering systems;
• Experience with speech systems;
• Experience with TensorFlow;
• Knowledge of Python, Java, or Scala programming languages

Benefits

We’ll reward you with a competitive basic salary along with a range of excellent benefits including:

• Up to 5% matched pension contribution.
• 25 days holiday per year plus 8 bank holidays, plus 3 extra days for Christmas office closure, and the ability to purchase more.
• Death in Service 3x salary.
• Discretionary bonus scheme (following successful probation).
• Extensive training and development options.
• Five Ways to Thrive Well-being Programme.
• Active Sports and Social Clubs.
• Flexible benefits package including healthcare cash plan, cycle to work, gym and shopping discounts and much more.

ieso is one of those rare places where anyone from anywhere with any background or experience is free to come and do their very best work. We believe in the diversity of thought, as that's what helps us to help our patients.

Equity, diversity and inclusion are values that are critical to our success, come and see for yourself!