Defence Data Scientist – Mission-Critical AI

C3.ai, Inc.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent benefits

Competitive compensation

Generous equity plan

Job summary

C3 AI, an Enterprise AI software company, is seeking a Data Scientist to join the UK defence-focused data science team. You will collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, and subject matter experts to define new analytics capabilities and implement machine learning models on the C3 AI Platform to help customers make informed decisions at scale.

This frontline role supports programmes across the UK MOD, NATO, and allied partners.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, or equivalent fields.
• Applied AI experience (generative AI, agentic solutions, regression and classification, supervised and unsupervised learning).
• Strong mathematical background (linear algebra, calculus, probability and statistics).
• Experience with scalable ML (MapReduce, streaming).
• Ability to drive a project and work independently and in a team.
• Smart, motivated attitude and clear impact orientation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead research, design, implementation, and deployment of ML algorithms and intelligent agents for enterprise applications leveraging the C3 AI Suite.
• Assist and enable C3 AI's customers to build their own applications on the C3 AI Suite.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of new features of the C3 AI Suite.
• Analyse model performance across asset fleets, diagnose issues, and adjust hyperparameters.
• Collaborate with data and subject matter experts from C3 AI and customer teams to validate data elements.

Skills

Applied AI experience

Strong mathematical background

Experience with scalable ML

Ability to drive a project

Excellent verbal and written communic

Education

MS or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, or equivalent

Job description

C3 AI, an Enterprise AI software company, is seeking a Data Scientist to join the UK defence-focused data science team. You will collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, and subject matter experts to define new analytics capabilities and implement machine learning models on the C3 AI Platform to help customers make informed decisions at scale.

This frontline role supports programmes across the UK MOD, NATO, and allied partners.