Senior Data Scientist, Autoplanner | Hybrid/London

Ocado Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Private Medical Insurance

Pension with employer matching

Share schemes

Cycle to Work

Job summary

Ocado Group in London is hiring a Senior Data Scientist for the Autoplanner team. You will build AI-powered planning models that unify warehouse and last-mile operations, packaging, deployment, monitoring, and production rollout across global partners.

You will work with software engineers and product managers to set technical direction, mentor colleagues, and translate logistics challenges into production-ready data science solutions for autonomous operations.

Qualifications

• Experience taking data science models into production end-to-end.
• Strong ML and statistics expertise with metric evaluation.
• Production-quality Python coding ability.
• Experience querying large datasets in BigQuery and performing data quality checks.
• Experience building simulations or stochastic models of operations.
• Experience with AI coding agents and validating generated outputs.
• Ability to collaborate with engineers, PMs and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Deliver ML models for planning products from prototype to production artefacts.
• Explore modelling and optimisation approaches and benchmark against existing solutions.
• Build simulations of warehouse operations and demand to power live plans.
• Define and measure business-critical metrics with robust statistics.
• Set the technical direction and delivery strategy for DS initiatives.
• Develop DS capabilities through mentoring and guidance.
• Partner with software engineers to package, deploy, monitor, and serve models.
• Own relationships with product managers and retailers to align on roadmaps.

Skills

Production ML deployment

Python programming

Statistical modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring teammates

Tools

BigQuery

OR-Tools

SimPy

Job description

Ocado Group in London is hiring a Senior Data Scientist for the Autoplanner team. You will build AI-powered planning models that unify warehouse and last-mile operations, packaging, deployment, monitoring, and production rollout across global partners.

You will work with software engineers and product managers to set technical direction, mentor colleagues, and translate logistics challenges into production-ready data science solutions for autonomous operations.