Lead AI Scientist

Rome - Italy

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 6 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Soldo is the proactive spend management solution that frees progressive businesses to accomplish more.

Over 25000 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 its 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.

Were looking for people with big ambitions cool heads sharp minds and warm hearts. Come and join us as we grow together.

Whats 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 Years Eve and your Birthday
Your own personal company Soldo card
Employee Assistance Programme
CAF Annual Fiscal & Financial Support

The role

Were now seeking a Lead AI Scientist to build and lead our AI research and development function driving innovation that transforms how companies manage and optimise their spend.

As Lead AI Scientist you will be both a strategic architect and a hands-on innovator responsible for advancing Soldos AI vision from concept to production.

You will grow and lead 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

Define and execute the companys AI roadmap aligned with the overall product and business strategy.
Grow lead mentor and scale an AI team and a multidisciplinary Squad fostering innovation and technical excellence.
Collaborate with executive leadership to identify and prioritise high-impact AI initiatives.
Select the right tools frameworks and deployment strategies.
Balance business goals with technical feasibility.

-Research & Development

Design architect/implement and guide AI projects end-to-end like for instance advanced machine learning deep learning and generative AI models for spend enrichment spend categorisation budget forecasting fraud detection and any kind of optimisation.
Explore and prototype new AI technologies for product and financial behaviour modelling NLP for invoice/document understanding RAG for product enhancement and assistance and reinforcement learning for spend optimisation.
Ensure robust model governance including explainability fairness and compliance with financial regulations (e.g. GDPR ISO27001 SOC2).

-Operational Excellence

Oversee deployment of AI systems into production with ML Ops best practices.
Collaborate with data engineering to ensure scalable data pipelines and quality datasets.
Monitor model performance continuously iterate to improve accuracy and impact and ensure drift detection retraining pipelines and robust documentation.

-Cross-Functional Collaboration

Partner with Product teams to translate customer problems into AI solutions.
Communicate complex AI concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
Represent the AI function in strategic discussions product reviews and relevant stakeholder communications.

Were looking for someone who must have

PhD or Masters degree in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Statistics or a related field.
Extensive experience (typically 5 years) in AI/ML research and development including at least 2 years in a leadership role.
Expertise in machine learning NLP through LLMs time-series forecasting RAG and anomaly detection.
Strong programming skills in Python and familiarity with frameworks such as TensorFlow PyTorch Scikit-learn Vector DBs and LLMs.
Deep understanding of data architecture ML Ops and cloud platforms (at least one of AWS GCP or Azure).
Proven experience designing scalable AI architectures integrated with production systems.
Excellent communication and leadership skills; ability to inspire and guide technical teams.

It would be nice if you had

Publications in applied AI research.
Experience integrating AI into SaaS or enterprise B2B products
Familiarity with generative AI for financial insights or automated reporting.
Prompt engineering & fine-tuning
Experience with transactional and payment data expense categorisation or financial document AI (OCR/NLP).

Soldo is the proactive spend management solution that frees progressive businesses to accomplish more.Over 25000 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 proac...