Data Scientist (Large Language Model Officer) - SeRP

Employer:

Location: Swansea, Wales

Pay: £34,132 to £38,249 per year, together with USS pension benefits

Contract Type: Contract

Hours: Full time

Disability Confident: No

Closing Date: 27/12/2025

About this job

This is a Fixed Term role until December 2026 working full-time.

The purpose of the role is to support Swansea University's role within the Dementias Platform UK (DPUK) collaboration, a £53 million pound public-private Medical Research Council funded endeavour to create a wide ranging and innovative dementias research facility, incorporating different research disciplines from stem cell research to data analysis.

DPUK is a world leading resource for person focused dementias research designed to fast track scientific knowledge, treatments and the prevention of the disease.

The post offers a unique opportunity to work on a project utilising the latest AI techniques and large language models (LLMs) for developing data discovery and feasibility tools as well as personal identifiable information (PII) detection.

Responsibilities

• Partaking in team planning and management
• Data preparation
• Statistical analysis
• Writing results for publication
• Contribute to DPUK support activities, including provisioning data to projects, reviewing project outputs, handling researcher queries about DPUK, and helping researchers develop project ideas
• Work with the DPUK team to develop and test various LLM methods utilising data and metadata within the data portal, compare methods and explore opportunities and challenges in different approaches
• Support with the development of a user interface for users to query across DPUK data/metadata and work on PII detection projects