Machine Learning Engineer - Deep Learning

Contract Data Scientist – Forecasting, Deep Learning, Causal AI (Retail)£600-700/day | 4 Months | Start ASAP | Inside IR35 RAPP is looking for a technically sharp, hands-on Data Scientist to join their agile consulting team supporting high-profile retail clients. This is a 4-month contract with the chance to work on impactful forecasting and causal AI projects within a fast-moving, agency-style environment. What You\’ll Be Doing: Designing and building custom forecasting models (XGBoost, deep learning, RL) for real-world retail scenarios Applying causal and graph-based methods to understand and optimise customer behaviour Working across the full stack of data science, from data wrangling to deployment Operating within a modern MLOps setup (Docker, CI/CD, AWS) Contributing to product-facing tooling (bonus if you\’ve used JavaScript / Next.js / TypeScript) What We\’re Looking For: Strong practical knowledge of deep learning fundamentals – ideally with PyTorch Experience building bespoke models for time series, tabular, image, or text data Hands-on forecasting experience with retail or consumer datasets Skilled in causal inference, graph AI, or reinforcement learning Comfortable deployi…