Senior AI Scientist

Soldo is the proactive spend management solution that frees progressive businesses to accomplish more. Over 25,000 organisations across 31 countries use Soldo to end slow, messy, and inefficient spending, bringing financial agility and control over every expense. Soldo frees finance with a uniquely proactive approach to managing decentralised spending. By combining a powerful spend management platform, a user-friendly app, and versatile payment methods, Soldo automates expense admin to eliminate inefficiency in managing business spending. By proactively managing decentralised spend, organisations empower employees to spend when and where it's needed, keeping productivity high while avoiding month‑end surprises. Founded in 2015 by Italian digital innovator Carlo Gualandri, Soldo is headquartered in London, with offices in Dublin, Milan, and Rome. We’re looking for people with big ambitions, cool heads, sharp minds, and warm hearts. Come and join us as we grow together.

What's in it for you

• Competitive salary
• Private healthcare coverage for you and your family
• Lunch Vouchers
• Genuine career development opportunities (we love to see you succeed) - including your own annual €500 career development budget
• Access to training and development - including a mentoring programme, workshops and the opportunity to progress onto our leadership programme
• Flexible working options, including working from home or our Milan or Rome offices + 60 days’ work anywhere
• Statutory Leave entitlements plus extra days off on Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve and your Birthday
• Your own personal company Soldo card
• Employee Assistance Programme
• CAF Annual Fiscal & Financial Support

The role

We’re now seeking a Senior AI Scientist to strengthen our AI research and development function, driving innovation that transforms how companies manage and optimise their spend. As a Senior AI Scientist, you will be both a strategic architect and a hands‑on innovator, responsible for advancing Soldo’s AI vision from concept to production. You’ll join and help grow a team of AI scientists, machine learning engineers, and analysts in developing next‑generation AI models that power real‑time data enrichment, (near) real‑time spend analytics, risk prediction, anomaly detection, and decision intelligence within our platform. You will collaborate closely with Product, Software Architects, Software Engineering and finance domain experts to ensure our AI systems deliver measurable business value while maintaining transparency, compliance and ethical integrity.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership
  • Executeonthecompany’sAIroadmapalignedwiththeoverallproductandbusinessstrategy.
  • ContributetoourAIteamandamultidisciplinarysquad,fosteringinnovationandtechnicalexcellence.
  • Collaboratewithleadershiptoidentifyandprioritisehigh - impactAIinitiatives.
  • Selecttherighttools,frameworks,anddeploymentstrategies.Balancebusinessgoalswithtechnicalfeasibility.
• Research & Development
  • Design,architect/implement,andguideAIprojectsend-to end,likeforinstanceadvancedmachinelearning,deeplearning,andgenerativeAImodelsforspendenrichment,spendcategorisation,budgetforecasting,frauddetection,andanykindofoptimisation.
  • ExploreandprototypenewAItechnologiesforproductandfinancialbehaviourmodelling,NLPforinvoice/documentunderstanding,RAGforproductenhancementandassistance,andreinforcementlearningforspendoptimisation.
  • Ensurerobustmodelgovernance,includingexplainability,fairness,andcompliancewithfinancialregulations(e.g.,GDPR,ISO27001,SOC2).
• Operational Excellence
  • OverseedeploymentofAIsystemsintoproductionwithMLOpsbestpractices.
  • Collaboratewithdataengineeringtoensurescalabledatapipelinesandqualitydatasets.
  • Monitormodelperformance,continuouslyiteratetoimproveaccuracyandimpact,andensuredriftdetection,retrainingpipelines,androbusdocumentation.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • PartnerwithProductteamstotranslatecustomerproblemsintoAIsolutions.
  • CommunicatecomplexAIconceptsclearlytonon-technicalstakeholders.
  • RepresenttheAIfunctioninstrategicdiscussions,productreviews,andrelevantstakeholdercommunications.

We're looking for someone who must have

• PhDorMaster’sdegreeinComputerScience,ArtificialIntelligence,MachineLearning,Statistics,orarelatedfield.
• ExtensiveexperienceinAI/MLresearchanddevelopment,includinginaleadershiprole.Expertiseinmachinelearning,NLPthroughLLMs,time - seriesforecasting,RAG,andanomalydetection.
• StrongprogrammingskillsinPython,andfamiliaritywithframeworkssuchasTensorFlow,PyTorch,Scikit-learn,VectorDBs,andLLMs.
• Deepunderstandingofdataarchitecture,MLOps,andcloudplatforms(atleastoneofAWS,GCP,orAzure).
• ProvenexperiencedesigningscalableAIarchitecturesintegratedwithproductionsystems.
• Excellentcommunicationandleadershipskills;abilitytoinspireandguidetechnicalteams.

It would be nice if you had

• PublicationsinappliedAIresearch.
• ExperienceintegratingAIintoSaaSorenterpriseB2Bproducts.
• FamiliaritywithgenerativeAIforfinancialinsightsorautomatedreporting.
• Promptengineering&fine-tuning.
• Experiencewithtransactionalandpaymentdata,expensecategorisation,orfinancialdocumentAI(OCR/NLP).