About the role

  • Data Scientist role at Checkatrade working on AI-driven solutions for the home improvement marketplace. Collaborating with various teams to develop and deploy impactful models.

Responsibilities

  • Experimenting with LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and other advanced approaches to improve matching, ranking and recommendations
  • Building, testing and deploying production-ready models – from forecasting and NLP to classification and MMM – that power our core marketplace systems
  • Working closely with Engineering, Product, Analytics and BI to ensure models are scalable, observable and delivering measurable impact
  • Embedding AI and data science into everyday workflows so intelligence shapes every customer and trade experience
  • Helping define how we responsibly experiment, evaluate and ship ethical AI through our internal AI playbook

Requirements

  • Strong applied experience with SQL, Python, and modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow and Hugging Face
  • A proven track record of building and deploying production-grade machine learning models
  • Comfort moving between rapid experimentation and rigorous model evaluation
  • A pragmatic mindset – knowing when to fine-tune, when to use off-the-shelf models, and when simple beats complex
  • Curiosity, creativity and a genuine drive to turn data into tangible, measurable impact

Benefits

  • Competitive salary + annual bonus
  • Health, wellbeing and learning support
  • Flexible, remote-friendly working – with hybrid time in our Barcelona or London office
  • Lunch vouchers to keep you fuelled while you build
  • Birthday / special day leave
  • Buy & sell holiday scheme
  • 1 week’s paid charity leave – and much more

Job title

Data Scientist

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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