Birmingham, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
About Friend MTS Friend MTS is the world’s leading provider of content protection and anti-piracy solutions. We help the biggest brands in media, sports, and entertainment - including global broadcasters and sports leagu…
Skills: Python, AI-Assisted Development, AWS, SQL, Data Analysis
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The role involves cleaning and processing large streaming datasets to uncover security intelligence and trends. You will develop machine learning models and build interactive dashboards using Plotly and Streamlit to communicate findings.
Candidates must have a quantitative degree and professional proficiency in Python, SQL, and AWS. Deep experience using AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot or Claude Code for daily development is required.
About Friend MTS
Friend MTS is the world’s leading provider of content protection and anti-piracy solutions. We help the biggest brands in media, sports, and entertainment - including global broadcasters and sports leagues - protect their high-value content. Through Emmy® Award-winning forensic watermarking and real-time monitoring, we disrupt piracy at its source.
The Role
As a Junior Data Scientist, you will join our growing Data Science team to help us turn vast amounts of streaming and network data into actionable security intelligence. This is a unique opportunity to work on real-world problems where your models directly contribute to identifying illegal activity.
While we operate in a niche industry, we are looking for a generalist Data Scientist; no prior experience in anti-piracy or media security is expected. There is a wide variety of work across the business, ranging from data analysis and optimisation to modeling in multiple different areas. You should be comfortable pivoting between different types of data problems as the business evolves. This is a hybrid role that offers location flexibility, allowing you to be based at either our London or Birmingham office. You will be required to comfortably commute to your designated office location at least twice per week.
Key Responsibilities
Required Skills & Qualifications
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What We Offer
Here at Friend MTS, we are dedicated to nurturing and expanding a culture of belonging where everyone feels seen, heard, valued for who they are. By embracing the diversity of our people (and future people!) we achieve our best work, together. We ensure that at all stages of our hiring process, your education level, neurodivergence, background, race, religion, colour, sex, age, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability will not influence your chances for selection.
If you are interested in applying for a role at Friend MTS and need special assistance, please make us aware and we will support you in accommodating this.
Friend MTS is a provider of content security technology, cloud video security services and related applications to media
As the number one anti-piracy provider, Friend MTS is the trusted cybersecurity partner of the biggest brands in media, sports, and entertainment. Our mission is to help content owners, broadcasters, and operators increase revenues by combating piracy and reducing the impact of illicit content distribution. Through Emmy Award-winning fingerprint-augmented content monitoring, forensic watermarking, industry-first server blocking, and legal enforcement, we provide the most advanced anti-piracy solutions. Our data insights help clients understand piracy trends, optimise strategies, and protect content more effectively. Founded over 25 years ago, FMTS is owned by private equity firm NorthEdge and has offices globally.
Offices: 177 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, England WC2H 8JR, GB · 45 Church Street, Floor 5, Birmingham, B3 2RT, GB · Third floor, Mill House, North Street, York, Yorkshire YO1 6JD, GB · 3 Fraser Street, Level 8, office 818, Singapore, 189352, SG · 3 Hardman Street, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3HN, GB
Friend MTS is a provider of content security technology, cloud video security services and related applications to media
As the number one anti-piracy provider, Friend MTS is the trusted cybersecurity partner of the biggest brands in media, sports, and entertainment. Our mission is to help content owners, broadcasters, and operators increase revenues by combating piracy and reducing the impact of illicit content distribution. Through Emmy Award-winning fingerprint-augmented content monitoring, forensic watermarking, industry-first server blocking, and legal enforcement, we provide the most advanced anti-piracy solutions. Our data insights help clients understand piracy trends, optimise strategies, and protect content more effectively. Founded over 25 years ago, FMTS is owned by private equity firm NorthEdge and has offices globally.
Offices: 177 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, England WC2H 8JR, GB · 45 Church Street, Floor 5, Birmingham, B3 2RT, GB · Third floor, Mill House, North Street, York, Yorkshire YO1 6JD, GB · 3 Fraser Street, Level 8, office 818, Singapore, 189352, SG · 3 Hardman Street, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3HN, GB
