Senior Applied AI Scientist

We are looking for a Senior Applied AI Scientist who wants to help our customers achieve ROI from their first party behavioural data. 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.

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 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 Opportunity:

• Development of our core product behavioural models, working directly within our product, AI and engineering delivery pods
• 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
• 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 Applied AI internally and participate in our data science community

Skills and experience:

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

26 days holiday (increasing with service).

Our Team: Around 110 people and growing, based across London, Barcelona, Lisbon, New York, and Tel Aviv. Engineers, data scientists, product designers, and commercial minds who collectively speak over 15 languages. United by a single conviction: when you understand human behaviour properly, relevance follows — and when relevance follows, so does value.

Why Join Intent:

• Work that matters at genuine scale. Our clients have tens of millions of customers and billions of interaction events each day.
• Category-defining technology. 49 patents. An AI that reads 16,000 behavioural signals directly on your phone — data never leaves.
• Global reach, real momentum. Expanding rapidly into Latin America, Africa, APAC, India, and the Middle East.
• A place to grow — fast. We are at an inflexion point: approaching profitability, launching a flagship agentic platform, and scaling commercially across seven regions.
• Hybrid and flexible. London-based roles work from the office three days a week, with the rest remote.

Our Values — In Practice:

• Human-first. No one is average. We start with individual reality, motivation, and context — not statistical convenience or abstract users.
• Principled. Privacy is a human right — a design principle, not a legal afterthought.
• Ambitious. We anticipate the edge — looking ahead early and building what others assume cannot yet be built.
• Inclusive. Intentionally relevant. Every interaction should earn its place — serving simply, with clarity in product, communication, and action.
• In service. We serve simply — to our customers, to each other, and to the work itself. No unnecessary complexity, no ego in the way.