Lead Data Scientist

Lead Data Scientist

Ocho Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

This range is provided by Ocho. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

My client is building the intelligence layer behind a next-gen manufacturing platform and are looking for a Lead Data Scientist to take ownership of everything computer vision.

This isn’t a research-only role. You’ll be working with real images, real data, and real production systems, helping machines understand whether parts can be built, printed, or improved. If you like getting your hands dirty with models and shaping how things are built end to end, you’ll feel right at home.

Why this role is interesting

You’ll lead a core AI capability, not just contribute to it

Your models will ship and be used, not sit in notebooks

You’ll influence architecture, tooling, and technical direction

Small, collaborative team with space to experiment and move fast

Salary £65,000 - £75,000 with some flexibility for the right candidate.

What you’ll spend your time on

Building and improving computer vision models for real-world imagery

Designing data pipelines that support training, inference, and monitoring

Working across ML, data, and engineering to turn ideas into products

Keeping models healthy in production

Coaching others and raising the technical bar across the team

What we’re looking for

Strong experience in applied computer vision and deep learning

Confident Python engineer with production ML experience

Comfortable working with cloud ML platforms and MLOps tooling

Someone who enjoys solving messy, real problems with clean thinking

Able to explain complex ideas without overcomplicating things

Nice to have (not a deal-breaker)

Experience in manufacturing, inspection, or industrial AI

Exposure to large-scale data processing or multimodal models

Curiosity around agent-based or orchestration-style AI

Interested?

If you want to lead, build, and actually see your work used in the real world, let’s talk.

Reach out to Justin Donaldson for a confidential chat or more details.

#J-18808-Ljbffr