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Senior Data Scientist

Data Engineer • Remote • Full-time • 📍 Remote / UK

Beatport, the global leader in DJ and club culture, is seeking a Senior Data Scientist with strong ML engineering skills to help build and operate scalable ML models, focused primarily on content recommendation, search optimisation, and audio modelling. Hybrid (London) or remote, with UK right to work required.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement ML-based solutions to enhance the Beatport customer experience (semantic search, content recommendation/personalisation, audio models)
  • Act as a subject matter expert on GCP's latest ML/AI tooling, prototyping and advocating for new tooling
  • Collaborate with Platform Engineering and Product to prioritise relevant workstreams
  • Work with Data Engineers and Data Analysts to develop scalable data architectures
  • Develop and maintain the team's API service delivering real-time ML output to Platform Engineering

Requirements

  • 4-5 years of direct experience as a Data Scientist, with 1+ year in a senior capacity preferred
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field
  • Expert proficiency in GCP's ML/AI tooling (Vertex AI, BigQuery, Gemini APIs) and data ecosystem
  • Expert proficiency with Python and core ML libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow)
  • Expert proficiency with SQL development, Google dialects advantageous
  • Robust CI/CD discipline for ML (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and infrastructure as code (Terraform)

Nice to have

  • Proficiency with an API web framework (FastAPI, Django, Flask)
  • Familiarity with experimentation and A/B testing frameworks
  • Experience with vector databases or large-scale semantic search/retrieval pipelines
  • Domain knowledge in digital signal processing and/or audio fingerprinting in the music industry
  • General music industry experience and/or interest in DJ culture

Soft skills

Collaboration across cross-functional teamsCuriosity and a proactive tooling mindset

What we offer

  • Participation in the company's annual bonus pool program
  • A professional environment with room for creativity and fun
  • VIP access to local music events & livestreams
  • Enhanced holiday allowance

About the company

For over 20 years, Beatport has been the global leader in DJ and club culture, pushing the boundaries of dance music. The Beatport Group includes brands such as Beatport, Ampsuite, LabelRadar, Plugin Boutique, and Beatport Live.

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