Data Scientist

Salary: £35,608 to £37,694 with progression to £46,049 per annum

Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits. We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.

Closing Date: 26 October 2025

About us

Join leading data scientists at the National Innovation Centre for Data (NICD) and help harness data science and AI to benefit the UK economy and society.

NICD has been established to address the data skills gap in the UK that will enable organisations to innovate through data. It delivers a flexible rolling programme of collaborative projects and workshops that focus on a specific business challenge or opportunity and transfers practical data skills into the workforce. Using these new skills, organisations can make better, data driven decisions, optimise existing operations and launch new products and services.

The role

You will be responsible for working with client organisations to deliver technical projects that span a broad range of sectors as well as a variety of unique and intriguing technical and business challenges. Through the delivery of these technical projects, you will be responsible for transferring data skills to the client organisation’s staff, through tutoring and mentoring. You will be responsible for scoping project requirements, understanding business challenges and developing a project workstream to address this challenge through data science techniques. You will also explore technical data challenges in collaborative projects.

About you

You must have the following essential criteria in order to apply:

• You should be educated to PhD in a related discipline or have an MSc in a related discipline plus more than 3 years of experience applying your data science knowledge and delivering project outcomes in a client-facing role
• You must have the ability to demonstrate experience of solving and delivering data science and/or AI solutions for stakeholders

• You should have relevant knowledge and experience in one or more of the following areas: Statistical Modelling, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Machine Vision, MLOps/LLMOps, Data Analytics, Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, Data Visualisation.
• Ability to communicate and teach complex technical concepts

You will succeed in this space if you have passion to challenge yourself and to continue to advance your skills through continued professional development. We are keen to hear form people who have a positive ‘can-do’ attitude and an enthusiastic approach to solving problems.

How to apply

If you meet the essential criteria as listed, please apply by:

• Uploading a CV
• With a Cover Letter that outlines how you can evidence the essential knowledge, skills and experience detailed in the job description. 

• In the Cover Letter please answer the following question: How have you used data science and AI techniques to address a real-world challenge? What expertise did you use, and what was the end deliverable?

If you have any questions about the job, please get in touch with Georgia Carr at georgia.carr@newcastle.ac.uk or Barry Hodgson at barry.hodgson@newcastle.ac.uk.

Technical Assessment

Applicants who meet the essential criteria at application stage will be invited to complete a technical test before they are invited to an interview. The technical assessment will involve the analysis of a dataset to address a challenge posed by a hypothetical client.

Finishing your PhD at Newcastle University?

If you are nearing the end of your PhD and have either submitted your thesis and are awaiting your viva, or plan to submit your thesis imminently, we would consider offering a very short period of part-time work initially, provide that you are able to demonstrate the essential criteria outlined above and in the full job description.

Newcastle University is a global University where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.  As a University of Sanctuary, we aim to provide a welcoming place of safety for all, offering opportunities to people fleeing violence and persecution.

We are committed to being a fully inclusive university which actively recruits, supports and retains colleagues from all sectors of society.  We value diversity as well as celebrate, support and thrive on the contributions of all of our employees and the communities they represent.  We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing teams, we believe that success is built on having teams whose backgrounds and experiences reflect the diversity of our university and student population.

At Newcastle University we hold a silver Athena Swan award in recognition of our good employment practices for the advancement of gender equality.  We also hold a Race Equality Charter Bronze award in recognition of our work towards tackling race inequality in higher education REC.  We are a Disability Confident employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role as part of the offer and interview scheme.

In addition, we are a member of the Euraxess initiative supporting researchers in Europe. 

Requisition ID: 28112

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