Senior Data Scientist in London

About the company

Just Eat Takeaway is a leading online food delivery marketplace, connecting consumers and restaurants through its platform in 22 countries.

Job description

We're hiring a Senior Data Scientist – AI Engineering to influence AI agent development, evaluation, and operation, supporting our critical delivery network's personnel. This hybrid role in Amsterdam, Berlin, or London creates impact, ensuring production agents resolve issues and enable real-time actions efficiently across diverse markets. Key Responsibilities: - Lead agent system design, making architectural and tool integration trade-offs to optimize quality, latency, cost, and maintainability for reliable production. - Define end-to-end agent evaluation using offline datasets, LLM-as-a-judge metrics, and automated testing to establish reliable deployment decisions. - Own production agent monitoring, designing tracing, quality, cost, and latency signals, and implementing efficient processes for regression and incident investigation.

Job benefits

Job requirements

- Apply substantial experience designing, building, and operating user-facing AI agents in production, with knowledge derived from real-world failures. - Demonstrate deep experience in agent evaluation and observability using tools like OpenTelemetry or Datadog, plus strong Python and SQL for systems. - Possess strong communication skills to explain complex trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences, influencing stakeholders without formal authority.