Data Scientist at La Fosse, London Area, £575 per day

🚨 CONTRACT OPPORTUNITY – DATA SCIENTIST 🚨

📍 London (Hybrid)

🏢 FTSE 100 Business

💰 £575 per day

🧾 Outside IR35

📆 6-Month Initial Contract

A leading FTSE 100 organisation is building out multiple AI teams focused on both AI product development and enterprise-wide AI transformation initiatives.

This is a production-first environment focused on deploying AI systems that are actively used, trusted, and continuously improved - not experimental proof-of-concepts.

Candidates should have proven experience building and deploying real-world LLM and agentic systems into production environments at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Designing and building AI agents and agentic workflows powered by LLMs

• Developing multi-step intelligent systems incorporating reasoning, planning, memory, and tool orchestration

• Building and improving RAG pipelines and retrieval systems

• Working with MCP-style architectures / FastMCP / FastAPI

• Automating complex workflows and decision-making processes using AI

• Deploying scalable AI systems into production cloud environments

Required Experience:

• Strong Python engineering skills with production-grade coding standards

• Proven experience shipping LLM-powered applications into production

• Hands-on experience with LangChain / LangGraph or similar frameworks

• Experience building AI agents with orchestration and tool usage

• Strong understanding of RAG architectures and LLM trade-offs

• Experience deploying systems across AWS, Azure, or GCP

• Strong product mindset with a bias toward delivery and impact

Additional Desirable Experience:

• SaaS or B2B AI product environments

• High-growth or scaling businesses

• Evidence of AI systems actively delivering measurable business value