Data Scientist – Sovereign Territory Surveillance (Hybrid)

SRT Marine Systems plc; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Highly Competitive Salary and benefits

25 days annual leave rising to 28 days

Real individual developmentOpportuniti

Job summary

SRT Marine Systems plc is seeking a Data Scientist (Sovereign Territory Surveillance) based in Bristol with hybrid working options. You will join a data-driven team focused on research and delivery, tackling maritime and security challenges using time-series and image/video data streams.

You will develop, evaluate and deploy ML models for behaviour classification, anomaly detection and track pattern recognition within geospatial data.

Qualifications

• Essential: Solve maritime and security-based problems such as detection and classification for time series and image/video data streams.
• Essential: Develop and evaluate ML models for behaviour classification, anomaly detection, and track pattern recognition within geospatial data.
• Essential: Research, prototype, extend, and optimise vision and time-series models.
• Essential: Collaborate with developers to integrate model outputs into user-facing features.
• Essential: Build scalable pipelines for ingesting, processing, annotating, and managing large volumes of maritime data (AIS and vessel video footage).
• Essential: Contribute to feature development in alert generation and visualisation.
• Essential: Document model performance, testing procedures, and experiment outcomes, while tracking datasets and model versions.
• Desirable: Experience fine-tuning video or radar models and relevant metrics.
• Desirable: Experience managing graph databases (Neo4j).
• Desirable: Exposure to maritime, aerial, or remote-sensing imagery.
• Desirable: Exposure to MLOps tools, and containerisation with Docker/AWS, plus CI/CD in ML environments.

Responsibilities

• Solve maritime and security-based problems such as detection and classification for time series and image/video data streams.
• Develop and evaluate ML models for behaviour classification, anomaly detection, and track pattern recognition within geospatial data.
• Research, prototype, extend, and optimise suitable vision and time-series models.
• Collaborate with developers to integrate model outputs into user-facing features.
• Build scalable pipelines for ingesting, processing, annotating, and managing large volumes of maritime data (AIS and vessel video footage).
• Contribute to feature development in alert generation and visualisation.
• Document model performance, testing procedures, and experiment outcomes, and track datasets and model versions.

Skills

Maritime data analysis

Time-series & video data

ML model development

Geospatial data

Collaboration with devs

Experiment tracking

MLOps exposure

CI/CD in ML

Tools

Docker

AWS ECS/ECR

MLflow

Weights & Biases

Neo4j

Job description

SRT Marine Systems plc is seeking a Data Scientist (Sovereign Territory Surveillance) based in Bristol with hybrid working options. You will join a data-driven team focused on research and delivery, tackling maritime and security challenges using time-series and image/video data streams.

You will develop, evaluate and deploy ML models for behaviour classification, anomaly detection and track pattern recognition within geospatial data.