Senior AI Scientist
Pubblicato il 02-08-2026 - Soldo Italy in Italia
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
- Private healthcare coverage for you and your family
- 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 strengthenour AI research and development function, driving innovation that transformshow companies manage and optimise their spend. As a Senior AI Scientist,
youwill be both a strategic architect and a hands‑on innovator, responsible for advancingSoldo’s AI vision from concept to production. You’ll join and help grow a teamof AI scientists, machine learning engineers, and analysts in developingnext-generation AI models that power real‑time data enrichment, (near)real-time spend analytics, risk prediction, anomaly detection, and decisionintelligence within our platform.
You will collaborate closely with Product,Software Architects, Software Engineering and finance domain experts to ensure ourAI systems deliver measurable business value while maintaining transparency,compliance and ethical integrity.
KeyResponsibilities
-StrategicLeadership
- Executeonthecompany’sAIroadmapalignedwiththeoverallproductandbusinessstrategy.
- ContributetoourAIteamandamultidisciplinarysquad,fosteringinnovationandtechnicalexcellence.
- Collaboratewithleadershiptoidentifyandprioritisehigh - impactAIinitiatives.
- Selecttherighttools,frameworks,anddeploymentstrategies.Balancebusinessgoalswithtechnicalfeasibility.
- 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).
-OperationalExcellence
- OverseedeploymentofAIsystemsintoproductionwithMLOpsbestpractices.
- Collaboratewithdataengineeringtoensurescalabledatapipelinesandqualitydatasets.
- Monitormodelperformance,continuouslyiteratetoimproveaccuracyandimpact,andensuredriftdetection,retrainingpipelines,androbus documentation.
-Cross-FunctionalCollaboration
- PartnerwithProductteamstotranslatecustomerproblemsintoAIsolutions.
- CommunicatecomplexAIconceptsclearlytonon-technicalstakeholders.
- RepresenttheAIfunctioninstrategicdiscussions,productreviews,andrelevantstakeholdercommunications.
We'relookingforsomeonewhomusthave
- 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.
Itwouldbeniceifyouhad
- PublicationsinappliedAIresearch.
- ExperienceintegratingAIintoSaaSorenterpriseB2Bproducts.
- FamiliaritywithgenerativeAIforfinancialinsightsorautomatedreporting.
- Promptengineering&fine-tuning.;
- Experiencewithtransactionalandpaymentdata,expensecategorisation,orfinancialdocumentAI(OCR/NLP).
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