Data Scientist (Large Language Model Officer) - SeRP

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd; Swansea; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading research organization in Swansea is offering a full-time contract position focused on supporting dementia research. This fixed-term role involves participating in team management, statistical analysis, and developing innovative AI tools for data discovery. Ideal candidates will possess a background in data preparation and publishing results, with familiarity in large language models. This position provides the opportunity to work on projects that contribute significantly to the scientific understanding of dementia.

Qualifications

• Experience in data preparation and statistical analysis.
• Ability to write results for publication.
• Familiarity with AI techniques and large language models.

Responsibilities

• Partake in team planning and management.
• Contribute to DPUK support activities and handle researcher queries.
• Support the development of a user interface for data querying.

Job description

Employer:

Location: Swansea, Wales

Pay: £34,132 to £38,249 per year, together with USS pension benefits

Contract Type: Contract

Hours: Full time

Disability Confident: No

Closing Date: 27/12/2025

About this job

This is a Fixed Term role until December 2026 working full-time.

The purpose of the role is to support Swansea University’s role within the Dementias Platform UK (DPUK) collaboration, a £53 million pound public-private Medical Research Council funded endeavour to create a wide ranging and innovative dementias research facility, incorporating different research disciplines from stem‑cell research to data analysis.

DPUK is a world leading resource for person‑focused dementias research designed to fast‑track scientific knowledge, treatments and the prevention of the disease.

The post offers a unique opportunity to work on a project utilising the latest AI techniques and large language models (LLMs) for developing data discovery and feasibility tools as well as personal identifiable information (PII) detection.

Responsibilities

• Partaking in team planning and management
• Data preparation
• Statistical analysis
• Writing results for publication
• Contribute to DPUK support activities, including provisioning data to projects, reviewing project outputs, handling researcher queries about DPUK, and helping researchers develop project ideas
• Work with the DPUK team to develop and test various LLM methods utilising data and metadata within the data portal, compare methods and explore opportunities and challenges in different approaches
• Support with the development of a user interface for users to query across DPUK data/metadata and work on PII detection projects