Python Job: Senior Data Scientist

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Company

GITR

Location

Männedorf - Switzerland

Job type

Full-Time

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INTRODUCTION:
For our client, a Swiss FinTech company which is located in Zurich, we are looking for an individual as

Senior Data Scientist

(fulltime, permanent employment). The earliest start date is as soon as possible.

ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION:
  • You will develop and deploy solutions in the area of information extraction (and others) for simplifying business processes using ML techniques
  • You monitor the latest trends in the area of information extraction and test their applicability in proof-of-concepts on real world problems
  • You manage the end-to-end execution of ML model development process: from understanding business requirements, data analysis, feature engineering, model development, to creating model deployment pipelines together with our ML engineers
  • You conduct regular maintenance and reviews of existing models to identify & mitigate weaknesses and improve performance
  • You guide and mentor junior data scientists

REQUIRED PROFILE:
  • You have a PhD or Master degree in a quantitative field (Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, etc.)
  • You have at least 3 years of professional experience as Data scientist
  • You are passionate about latest developments and trends in the field of machine learning and information extraction
  • You bring keen attention to details while keeping a pragmatic attitude
  • You have strong problem-solving skills
  • You are proficient in Python and state-of-the-art tools (pandas, numpy, etc.) and at least one ML library (xgboost, sklearn, lightgbm, etc.) while having a good understanding of other ML libraries
  • You have experience in neural networks (keras, tensorflow)
  • You have strong feature engineering and data mining skills
  • You really enjoy working independently
  • You are fluent in English and/or German, other languages are a plus


Application process:

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