Senior Data Scientist - Remote Price Forecasting & AI

Monq Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity stake

Performance bonuses

Remote-first with team gatherings

Annual team retreat

Visa sponsorship available

Mentorship from industry experts

Job summary

Monq Ltd is building the price intelligence layer for enterprise procurement. We are seeking an experienced data scientist to develop forecast models for energy, metals, and other inputs, owning the full modelling lifecycle from feature engineering to deployment.

You will integrate diverse data sources and translate probabilistic forecasts into procurement decisions, collaborating closely with our engineering team to ship production-grade systems.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in applied data science or quantitative research with forecasting in production.
• Experience in commodity, energy or financial market price prediction.
• Fluent in multivariate modelling: VAR/VECM, Bayesian models, transformer-based architectures.
• You understand and communicate uncertainty in predictions to stakeholders.
• Comfortable working with messy real-world data and incomplete time series.
• Production-grade Python skills and deploying models for engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop price forecasting models across energy, metals, agricultural inputs, and industrial materials.
• Own modelling lifecycle—from feature engineering to validation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Design forecasting architectures beyond conventional approaches (Gaussian processes, ensembles, neural state-space models).
• Integrate alternative data sources (satellite, shipping, weather, indices, news sentiment).
• Translate probabilistic outputs into actionable decisions for procurement negotiations.
• Collaborate with engineering to ship production-grade systems.

Skills

Multivariate forecasting

Time-series modelling

Deep learning for sequences

Probabilistic modelling

MLOps

Explainability

Tools

AWS

Cursor

Claude Code

MLflow

Feature stores

Job description

Monq Ltd is building the price intelligence layer for enterprise procurement. We are seeking an experienced data scientist to develop forecast models for energy, metals, and other inputs, owning the full modelling lifecycle from feature engineering to deployment.

You will integrate diverse data sources and translate probabilistic forecasts into procurement decisions, collaborating closely with our engineering team to ship production-grade systems.