About the Role
Support the delivery and operationalisation of advanced artificial intelligence solutions created by our Group AI team. Your work will help shape how millions of customers and colleagues experience our products, services and decision making across our retail brands. You will work as part of a high performing engineering team to build scalable machine learning systems, ensuring models are robust, efficient and suitable for a live environment. You will collaborate with engineering, product and architecture colleagues to improve tools, processes and practices that accelerate the use of artificial intelligence across the organisation.
Responsibilities
- Develop machine learning models and support their deployment into production
- Write production quality code that is robust, efficient and maintainable
- Contribute to the implementation and improvement of pipelines, tooling and automation
- Apply good engineering standards and practices in model development
- Monitor performance and contribute to ongoing optimisation of models
- Work with colleagues to understand requirements and priorities
- Share knowledge, contribute ideas and support a collaborative team culture
Requirements
- Good understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms and software design
- Practical experience with classical machine learning techniques and an awareness of modern approaches such as natural language processing and deep learning
- Strong Python skills and experience with common libraries such as Pandas, scikit-learn and Jupyter
- Experience working with SQL and data pipelines to prepare and transform data for model training
- Understanding of model evaluation, monitoring and improving performance in a production environment
- Familiarity with tools and practices for deploying models, ideally including Git, CI workflows and containerisation
- Comfortable working with statistical concepts to interpret data and assess model performance
- Ability to work collaboratively, communicate clearly and deliver work to agreed outcomes
Skills
- Python
- Pandas
- scikit-learn
- Jupyter
- SQL
- Git
- CI workflows
- containerisation
- natural language processing
- deep learning
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package
- Opportunities to stretch and grow your career
About the Company
- Kingfisher is a team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas to life.
- Guided by our purpose Better Homes. Better Lives. For Everyone. We believe a better world starts with better homes, and we work every day to make that a reality.
- Join us and help shape the future of home improvement.
- An inclusive environment where your potential is limited only by your imagination.
- We encourage new ideas, support experimentation, and strive to create a workplace where everyone can be their best self.
Equal Opportunity
- Our customers come from all walks of life - and so do we. We’re committed to ensuring all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants are treated equally, regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, ethnicity, culture, religion, belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation.
