Senior Applied AI Scientist

About Intent HQ

Intent HQ redefines customer understanding for the agentic era, enabling enterprises to influence customer decisions at the moments that determine growth, loyalty, and competitive advantage. As the Human-to-AI Context Company, we offer groundbreaking AI technology that creates the missing context of human behaviour and individuality, transforming data into confident decisions that reflect how people actually act in the real world. We enable brands to Act With Intent.

Trusted by global enterprises, Intent HQ manages 325M+ profiles and processes 250B events daily. We won AI Business of the Year (National AI Awards 2025), Analytics Company of the Year (British Data Awards 2025), and winner of Best AI Ethics \& Diversity Strategy (AI World Series Awards 2025), recognising Intent HQ’s AI innovation, analytics excellence, and ethical leadership. Intent HQ is a proven partner for leaders seeking measurable growth, faster decision velocity, and responsible AI-driven advantage.

To learn more, visitwww.intenthq.com

Why Join Us

• Exciting Work Environment: Work on cutting-edge technology at the intersection of AI and data analytics.
• Growth Opportunities: Advance your career in a fast-paced, innovative industry.
• Hybrid working: Based in our London office 2-3 days per week and the rest of the week remote, depending on your location.

Synopsis

We are looking for a Senior Applied AI Scientist who wants to help our customers achieve ROI from their first party behavioural data, by delivering cutting edge Behavioural AI solutions across our Agentic AI product stack. The role will help our customers unravel the complexities of behavioural AI for large and mid-market organisations with a passion for insights and personalisation.

The Opportunity

The role will work with our product, engineering and customer success teams. It requires direct expertise with deep learning statistical models that power AI, such as Transformers, and is focused on providing the quality of predictive and prescriptive insight that our customers need to achieve great outcomes when they leveraging our behavioural AI technology. This job particularly suits data scientists who have experience working with customers, internal and external, that are able to understand customer ways of thinking and understand what they truly value.

The role is expected to include projects across our cross-functional teams:

a) Development of our core product behavioural models, working directly within our product, AI and engineering delivery pods

b) Prototyping new solutions with customer data, working with our client success team to understand customer need and translate this into new behavioural insight prototypes for future product integration

d) Behavioural AI model research and development

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build core behavioural models as tooling for our behavioural AI product, using bleeding edge deep learning techniques
• Developing client prototypes of new behavioural insight to prove value and then push upstream into our core capabilities where appropriate
• Ideate and prove out new, cutting edge DS techniques that will accelerate our value, enhance our product and grow our business
• Help our customers understand how to leverage our behavioural insights as features in their own models
• Work directly with customers to understand the problems that they face, and learn which kinds of behavioural insight will truly deliver ROI
• Act as an evangelist and storyteller for behavioural data science in the context of agentic AI
• Become a champion of Data Science and Applid AI internally and participate in our data science community

Skills and experience

Essential

• The most important requirement is the ability to creatively think through our customer’s challenges and solve problems that will enable us to productise the science that will deliver customer ROI
• The ability to work with agents and harnesses to deliver deployable, production-ready code as part of our product and engineering pods
• Knowledge and experience of building and evaluating machine learning models in areas such as clustering, sequence modelling, transformers, and other natural language processing and deep learning.
• Experience working closely and collaboratively with internal and external business stakeholders to understand their needs
• Passionate about communicating and are able to translate technical content in commercial terms for non-technical stakeholders, such as customers, sales and product teams

Desirable

• B2B product experience
• Experience with Spark SQL, PySpark, databricks
• Experience with CausalAI modelling frameworks (e.g. dowhy, econml)

Diversity \& Inclusion

Intent HQ is an equal opportunities employer with an ethos of commitment to promoting and practicing diversity, equality and inclusion at work. At IHQ, different perspectives, ideas and experiences are valued and respected, with fair and equal opportunities provided for all. Our diversity and inclusion efforts have been recognised with us winning two consecutive Women in Tech UK Awards, under the Best Tech Employer (51-149 Employees)’ category \& being shortlisted for the Best Employer for Parental Support award - an achievement we are very proud of. This year in 2024 we have been nominated again for the Best Tech Employer and our in house recruiter has been shortlisted for the Best In house Recruiter award!

Our Culture

Working for Intent HQ, you have the opportunity to work with cutting edge technology in an environment where you are encouraged to think and act outside traditional methods. We are a growing business with a flat structure meaning everyone is visible and able to make an impact, not just in their own role, but across the business on a daily basis. We promote a collaborative, innovative and sociable culture, oriented towards performance and competitive advantage. Our DNA is made up of flexibility to all staff with a family friendly approach and focus on personal development. We have high expectations and pride ourselves on our cultural standards.

Benefits

• Flexible working
• Private medical insurance, depending on eligibility
• Free breakfast daily (when in the office)
• 26 days holiday (increasing with service)
• Pension scheme
• Income Protection with Employee Assistance Programme
• Life Assurance
• Oliva Mental Health platform and counselling
• Higher than statutory maternity/paternity benefits
• Work socials
• Wellbeing programme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Training opportunities