Senior Forward Deployed Scientist

Ovii's Interpretation of the Role

The Senior Forward Deployed Scientist will lead end‑to‑end AI projects for large retail and manufacturing customers, turning real‑world supply‑chain challenges into commercial impact and feeding those insights back into UiPath’s product roadmap.

Role Snapshot

• End‑to‑end AI customer engagements
• Applied ML for supply‑chain & retail
• Translate field results into product direction
• Autonomous stakeholder collaboration
• Python & SQL development
• Forecasting & optimisation expertise

Must-Have Requirements

• Python
• SQL
• Machine Learning applied to commercial problems
• Forecasting
• Optimization
• Supply‑chain / pricing domain knowledge
• applied machine learning to commercial problems
• forecasting and optimisation in supply‑chain
• end‑to‑end customer engagement ownership

Nice-to-Have Signals

• Experience with agentic or LLM‑based systems
• agentic / LLM‑based AI systems

Work Setup

• Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
• Work mode: ONSITE
• Employment type: Full-Time

Not Specified in JD

• Salary range
• Visa sponsorship
• Remote eligibility
• Relocation
• Travel
• Security clearance
• Coding test
• Portfolio
• GitHub
• Writing sample
• Cover letter

What You'll Likely Work On

• Own the full lifecycle of customer AI projects, from problem definition to commercial delivery.
• Apply frontier ML, forecasting, optimisation and emerging agentic AI techniques to high‑stakes supply‑chain problems.
• Convert successful field solutions into product roadmap recommendations.
• Collaborate autonomously with data scientists, engineers and senior customer executives.
• Stay current on applied AI research and bring new ideas to the team.

Good Fit If You Have

• Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast‑moving environments.
• Strong executive‑level communication and storytelling ability.
• Self‑propelled, curious mindset with a track record of delivering results.