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Forward Deployed Engineer / Data Scientist
Location: London (Hybrid)
Salary: £60,000 - £75,000 + Equity
Gravitas is recruiting on behalf of a fast-growing, AI-led fintech start-up that’s transforming how financial institutions leverage intelligent systems. They’re looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer / Data Scientist to join their London-based team and become a key contributor to the company’s growth and product evolution.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone with 3+ years’ experience in a customer-facing data science role, who thrives in dynamic environments and enjoys solving complex, real-world problems.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Working directly with SMEs in banking and wealth management to extract business logic, often undocumented and distributed across teams.
- Building semantic ingestion systems that prepare data for AI training and deployment.
- Engineering high-efficacy, low-latency outputs, whether in code, documents, or structured checklists.
- Collaborating with AI Engineers to structure agent-based models that generate JSON outputs and populate end-user documents.
- Contributing to productisation efforts and developing technical best practices for scalable delivery.
- Managing stakeholders and technical implementation with clarity and confidence.
What You’ll Bring
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in a customer-facing data science or engineering role.
- Strong programming skills and ability to collaborate effectively with AI Engineers.
- Experience in extracting business logic from domain experts.
- A proactive mindset with a focus on productisation, documentation, and scalable solutions.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
What’s on Offer
- Competitive salary: £60,000 - £75,000
- Equity in a high-growth start-up
- Hybrid working model with flexibility
- A chance to be a core part of a company building the future of AI in financial services
- Work on innovative systems with real-world impact
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