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Born in 2014, Yoti is a digital identity and biometric technology company that makes it safer for people to prove who they are. The Yoti app was designed with privacy at its core, giving people a secure way to prove their identity and share third‑party credentials with organisations and other people.

Today, we have over seventeen million app downloads around the world. We’ve expanded our offering to a suite of business solutions that span identity verification, age verification and estimation, e‑signing, AI anti‑spoofing technologies and we continue to think of innovative new offerings.

From day one, we’ve been working to fix an outdated identity system. This is not a journey we make on our own but with policy advisors, think tanks, researchers, academics, humanitarian bodies, our users and everyday people. We are committed to solving identity problems through grassroots research and social purpose initiatives.

To work on projects in the fields of Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Deep Learning.

Reporting to Head of Research & Development; member of the R&D team

• Applying machine learning to the field of digital identity verification.
• The opportunity to build models from an idea, and helping to make models “production ready” so they can be passed to our deployment team.
• Assessing models for signs of bias with respect to any number of attributes.
• Working with huge real‑world datasets, and conducting research while also preserving the privacy of our users.

• Strong knowledge of the theory and maths behind deep learning.
• Strong Python programming skills (Tensorflow or PyTorch), and the ability to write clean, maintainable code.
• Strong analytical skills, and a keen interest in problem solving.
• PhD in computer science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• The ability to build, train and test functional prototypes for new loss functions, models and training paradigms.

Stage 1 - Call with a talent team acquisition member (30 minutes)

Stage 2 - Coding interview

Stage 3 - Research presentation (1 hour)

Stage 4 - Final interview (1 hour)

• Flexible working
• Performance based discretionary annual bonus
• Share Options
• Internal Share Market
• Private Medical Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• 5 fully paid Selfie Days - for your own personal development, volunteering, charity events, etc
• Team and company activities, Social clubs.
• Continuous learning opportunities (Annual Training budgets, conferences etc)

This is a great opportunity to join a company that is leading the way for innovative and responsible identity verification. We’re looking for people who can adapt to a fast‑paced environment, as well as champion our brand and what we stand for. We value a positive attitude and people who have a collaborative, creative and transparent approach to solving problems.

Please read our AI Usage in Recruitment policy to know more about how Yoti uses AI in the recruitment process and our stance on how candidates can use AI during the interview process.

It takes a diverse community of passionate, talented and committed people to build a simpler, more secure way of proving identity. We’re an equal opportunity employer, so we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, with different outlooks and experiences.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and we’re committed to making our recruitment process as inclusive and accessible as possible.

If you have a disability or long‑term condition and need any adjustments or support during the application or interview process, please let us know — we’ll do everything we can to support you and to enable you to bring your best self to our hiring process.

If your application is successful please be aware that as part of our pre‑employment checks:

• We will check your details against fraud prevention databases
• We will check identity; address match; PEPs and sanctions; bank validation, verification, fraud checks, negative data (CCJ, bankruptcy)
• If our investigations identify fraud or other criminal offences both when applying for a job and during your employment, we will record the details on the relevant fraud prevention databases. This information may be accessed from the UK and other countries and used by law enforcement agencies and other organisations to prevent fraud.
• Please contact peopleteam@Yoti.com to get information on which fraud prevention databases we use.

If we consider that you might be suitable for other roles in the future, we will keep your details so we can contact you about these other roles. If you do not want us to keep your details for this purpose, please e‑mail peopleteam@yoti.com or let us know at any stage of the recruitment process. For more information please read our Applicant Privacy Notice.