As a Senior Applied Scientist at ASOS, you will lead end-to-end ML initiatives that inform critical business decisions and enhance customer experiences. You’ll shape scientific direction, prototype new approaches, and translate research into scalable solutions working with cross-functional teams. You drive model performance, reliability, and operational impact at scale, shaping ASOS’s AI capabilities and business outcomes. This role offers meaningful impact across multiple domains in a fast-growing, data-driven environment.
Pay / Benefits
Employee discount (ASOS discount)
Employee sample sales
25 days paid annual leave + extra day
Discretionary bonus scheme
Private medical care
Flexible benefits allowance
Responsibilities
Lead design, development and evaluation of ML solutions for complex business challenges
Identify opportunities where ML creates measurable value
Improve model performance, scalability, reliability and operational impact across various use cases
Research and prototype emerging techniques from industry and academia
Design robust evaluation frameworks to assess model quality and business impact
Write, test and maintain production-quality code with software engineering best practices
Collaborate with ML Engineers and Data Engineers to deploy at scale
Provide technical leadership on complex initiatives and influence direction
Mentor and support other scientists through coaching and code reviews
Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Key requirements
Experience developing and deploying ML solutions in production environments
Applying ML techniques to solve real-world problems
Leading design and evaluation of data-driven solutions delivering business value
Developing new approaches or adapting research to practical challenges
End-to-end ML lifecycle from problem definition to deployment and monitoring
Proficiency in Python and frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
Experience with large datasets and distributed data processing
Software engineering practices including testing, version control, maintainable code
Collaborating with engineers, product teams and stakeholders to deliver production-ready solutions
Clear communication of complex concepts to diverse audiences
Providing technical leadership, mentoring others and influencing scientific direction
Curiosity, pragmatism and sound judgment balancing innovation with business outcomes
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