AI Scientist

Southern Manufacturing & Electronics 2025; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern Manufacturing & Electronics 2025 is seeking an AI Scientist to develop a new class of foundation models tailored for manufacturing, from factory floor data to product quality insights.

You will tackle challenges like causal understanding, data-efficient learning, and real-time inference on low compute systems across diverse use-cases such as beverage packaging and aerospace components. Join a hands-on team pushing practical AI forward.

Responsibilities

• Invent new capabilities for foundation models tailored to manufacturing.
• Improve data efficiency and robustness to achieve high accuracy with minimal data.
• Ensure real-time performance on low compute systems across diverse domains (beer bottles to aerospace).

Job description

We’re looking for an AI Scientist to join us in creating a brand-new class of foundation models designed specifically for manufacturing. You’ll get to tackle exciting challenges like:

• Inventing new capabilities, such as building models that understand causality – not just predicting what went wrong, but explaining why (e.g., “The temperature here was too high, mate. Lower it in this spot and you’re sorted!”).
• Boosting data efficiency and robustness to achieve top-notch accuracy with minimal data. Think teaching our models to learn from a handful of examples and transfer their smarts from one manufacturing setup to another like seasoned pros.
• Oh, and here’s the kicker: all of this needs to work in real-time and run on low compute systems. To give you an idea of the variety you’ll be diving into, one day you might be monitoring beer bottles, and the next, solving challenges with aerospace components. It’s a proper mix making life fun!