Principal Data Scientist – Machine Learning & AI at Accelerant · Remote (United Kingdom)
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Statistics
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Sound modelling judgement - you know what it takes for a model to hold up in the real world, not just on a validation set
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Strong programming skills
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Real willingness to work with LLMs and agentic AI as everyday tools, wherever your background sits today
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Clear communication with both technical and non-technical audiences - you can explain a lift curve to an underwriter and a shrinkage prior t
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Why they ask: Rigour.
How to answer: Metric choice, baselines, offline vs online tests.
Why they ask: Communication.
How to answer: Problem, approach, impact, limits.
Why they ask: Machine Learning is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
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Why they ask: AWS is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Opener to see how you frame your story.
How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
Why they ask: Checks judgement under pressure.
How to answer: Describe a concrete framework and one example of a trade-off you made.
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