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🥝 Senior Data Scientist - GenAI

BBC Group and Public Services | eccles, United-Kingdom | Posted May 31, 2026

Job Description

JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Group Strategy and Transformation
LOCATION: Salford
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £60,000 - £70,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The Senior Data Scientist will help the BBC make practical use of AI tools and systems to solve business problems and help our internal teams work effectively and efficiently.

The role is in the BBC’s Generative AI Programme and will collaborate closely with project managers, data scientists, analysts, domain experts, and the BBC's technical teams. The Senior Data Scientist will help evaluate emerging AI tools, assess whether domain data is fit for purpose, design and pilot solutions to clearly defined problems, and build the testing methods that show what works and where the limits are; working in ways that ar...

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