Hybrid Principal Data Scientist – Applied AI

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About the role

  • Principal Data Scientist at Wood Mackenzie leading AI-native capability development for the Energy & Natural Resources consulting portfolio. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive revenue growth and deliver AI-driven analytical products.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design and development of AI-native systems leveraging domain-specific ontologies, knowledge graphs, network models, and agentic reasoning frameworks
  • Provide technical oversight across multiple projects, ensuring modelling approaches align with high-value client workflows
  • Work closely with embedded SMEs to encode domain knowledge into machine-readable structures that enable causal reasoning across global energy systems
  • Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to deploy scalable pipelines integrating data from upstream, LNG, power, renewables, carbon, metals, and macroeconomic domains
  • Serve as the primary AI technical authority for consulting engagements, shaping proposal design, analytical methodologies, and delivery quality
  • Mentor senior and mid-level data scientists, establish modelling standards, and define best practices for reproducibility, evaluation, and model governance
  • Engage with clients to understand strategic decision workflows and translate them into AI-driven analytical products. Partner with product, research, and data engineering teams to ensure Synoptic outputs can scale into commercial products.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience delivering advanced machine learning, graph-based modelling, or AI systems in production
  • Expertise in ontology design, structural modelling, or knowledge graphs applied to complex, interconnected domains
  • Demonstrated ability to lead multi-disciplinary analytical teams
  • Experience working on consulting or client-facing analytics projects with executive stakeholders
  • Proven ability to design modelling architectures that scale from prototype to product.
  • Advanced proficiency in Python, ML frameworks, and cloud-native pipelines
  • Excellent communication skills, including the ability to articulate complex models to both technical and commercial audiences.

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Flexible working arrangements

Job title

Principal Data Scientist – Applied AI

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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