AI Growth Data Scientist (Hybrid)

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 63,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com in London or Amsterdam is seeking a Data Scientist to join the AI Growth team. You’ll build end-to-end ML solutions that personalise experiences and drive marketplace engagement for millions of customers, collaborating with ML engineers, product and commercial teams.

The role involves developing foundation-model related work, embedding models for search, and intelligent targeting systems.

Qualifications

• Proven track record delivering end-to-end ML solutions from problem framing through data exploration to production deployment and experiment measurement.
• Hands-on expertise in search, retrieval and recommendation techniques including embedding-based approaches and ranking systems with measurable impact.
• Experience applying LLMs in production environments, including prompt engineering, fine-tuning and structured output validation.
• Strong experimentation skills with ability to design and interpret A/B tests and reason about statistical significance.
• Production-grade Python coding abilities and clean, testable code for engineering workflows.
• Proficient SQL and experience with data warehouses, partitions, window functions and large-table joins.
• Excellent problem-framing and communication to translate business questions into modelling approaches.
• Self-starter with autonomy, ambiguity tolerance and fast-paced delivery mindset.
• Strong collaboration skills with senior data scientists, ML engineers and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and deployment of ML/AI solutions including embedding models, fine-tuned LLMs, and ranking systems that drive engagement and orders.
• Own experiments end-to-end, design, run and interpret A/B tests with robust statistical rigour.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to productionise models and maintain monitored pipelines with MLOps practices.
• Translate complex business questions into modelling approaches and communicate results to stakeholders.
• Design end-to-end workstreams, frame problems, choose approaches and present findings.

Skills

ML engineering

Python

SQL

AB testing

Ranking models

Embedding models

LLMs

MLOps

Data pipelines

Communication

Collaboration

Experimentation

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com in London or Amsterdam is seeking a Data Scientist to join the AI Growth team. You’ll build end-to-end ML solutions that personalise experiences and drive marketplace engagement for millions of customers, collaborating with ML engineers, product and commercial teams.

The role involves developing foundation-model related work, embedding models for search, and intelligent targeting systems.