Associate Data Scientist — ML for UK Property Insights

Rightmove Careers; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working with minimum 2 days in-

Job summary

Rightmove is seeking an Associate Data Scientist to join its Data, Analytics & AI team in the UK. You will work with experienced data scientists to apply ML/AI to the property market, building models, analysing data and delivering impactful insights.

Ideal candidates are early in their data science career, eager to learn, and capable of translating complex results for a product-focused team. This role offers a collaborative environment and hybrid working in London and beyond.

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of core machine learning concepts: algorithms, loss functions, evaluation metrics.
• Experience with Python and SQL from academic projects or early roles.
• Familiarity with at least one ML library/framework (scikit-learn, XGBoost, PyTorch or TensorFlow).
• Working knowledge of descriptive statistics and data visualization; ability to interpret results.
• Proficient with Git and basic development workflows.
• Strong problem-solving, attention to detail, and a curious mindset.
• Proactive, receptive to feedback and keen on staying current with data science, ML and generative AI.

Responsibilities

• Build, train and evaluate ML models using standard libraries under senior guidance.
• Tune hyperparameters, interpret results and explain model performance.
• Write SQL and Python to query, clean and transform data; perform data quality checks.
• Create visualisations to highlight patterns and summarize data.
• Support experiment design and monitor key product metrics.
• Collaborate with ML engineers and data engineers to productionise models.
• Monitor deployed models and flag performance issues or data drift.
• Explore new techniques and run small prototypes involving LLMs and generative AI.

Skills

Python

SQL

ML fundamentals

Statistics

Git

Education

Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science degree

Tools

scikit-learn

PyTorch / TensorFlow

XGBoost

Job description

Rightmove is seeking an Associate Data Scientist to join its Data, Analytics & AI team in the UK. You will work with experienced data scientists to apply ML/AI to the property market, building models, analysing data and delivering impactful insights.

Ideal candidates are early in their data science career, eager to learn, and capable of translating complex results for a product-focused team. This role offers a collaborative environment and hybrid working in London and beyond.