timbuk2.ai

Principal data scientist

Posted: 10 hours ago

Job Description

Principal Data Scientist / Insights Engine LeadTimbuk2.ai | Remote (GMT+2)We’re building an AI engine that understands the real world — fusing geospatial data, mobility signals, optimisation models, and LLM reasoning into one system that powers multiple products. We need a hands-on Principal Data Scientist who lives for shipping models, pushing frontier techniques, and owning a production intelligence layer end-to-end.If you’re obsessed with GeoAI, LLMs, multimodal models, and building fast in a startup: read on.---What you’ll doOwn the modelling architecture behind scoring, optimisation, attribution, and location intelligence.Build GeoAI + movement-data models that handle messy, high-volume signals.Inject LLMs & multimodal models into real product surfaces (explanations, reasoning, area intelligence, brief extraction).Prototype fast, stabilise what works, and ship continuously.Set modelling standards and uplift the team as our senior technical anchor.---What you’ll shipA next-gen, multi-tenant insights engine.Production GeoAI + LLM + multimodal features users actually rely on.A credible v1 attribution/ROI model.A hardened, monitored, reliable modelling layer ready for scale.---You’re a fit if youHave 8+ years in DS/ML with 3+ years leading complex production models.Are fluent in Python, PyTorch/JAX, geo/spatial tooling, and large datasets.Have real experience shipping LLMs in products, not demos.Thrive in ambiguity, move fast, and love startups.Get energy from owning something end-to-end — data → model → API → impact.---Why joinYou’ll shape the intelligence core of a platform used across multiple products, markets, and partners — and you’ll do it in a startup where speed is a feature and AI isn’t a bolt-on, it is the product.

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