SeniorResearchDataScientist

dunnhumby is the global leader in Customer Data Science, partnering with the world’s most ambitious retailers and brands to put the customer at the heart of every decision. We combine deep insight, advanced technology, and close collaboration to help our clients grow, innovate, and deliver measurable value for their customers. dunnhumby employs nearly 2,500 experts in offices throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas working for transformative, iconic brands such as Tesco, Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Unilever and Metro. Joining the AI Strategy, Research & Enablement team, you’ll help shape the future of AI across the organisation. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge research and real-world commercial application, you’ll turn innovative ideas into scalable capabilities that influence products, platforms, and long-term strategy. You’ll collaborate with senior leaders and contribute to decision-making across data science, engineering, and product, helping to prioritise and advance the right AI investments for the future. We’re looking for a Senior Research Data Scientist to play a key role in developing dunnhumby’s next-generation models across a range of strategic AI initiatives. As part of this newly formed team, you’ll focus on advanced modelling, long-term capability building, and cross-industry collaboration. You’ll design new approaches, build and test prototypes, support engineering teams with productionisation, and contribute to partnerships with academia and external research organisations. What you’ll be doing: Drive the design, experimentation, and evaluation of transformer-based models on retail based challenges. Explore innovative architectures (e.g., sequence-to-sequence models, causal transformers, hybrid retrieval + transformer approaches) to deliver step-change improvements in personalisation, recommendations, and forecasting. Develop research-grade prototypes and collaborate with engineers to translate them into scalable, production-ready solut