Senior Data Scientist for AI Centre (m/f)

We’re looking for a skilled hands-on senior data scientist with substantial experience in deep learning. If you join our team in this role, you’ll have a unique opportunity to shape our flagship products and influence strategic decisions on our long-term course. You’ll be deeply in hands-on delivery, but you’ll also help your peers grow by being an essential mentor. Your role structure will be around 40 % hands-on coding, 20 % architecture and design of complex ML products and pipelines, 20 % problem cracking and mentoring of other peers, 20 % expert involvement in ML experiments in various domains, including our medical AI stream. If you’re the right candidate, you’re a fast thinker with the “work hard, play hard” attitude, you’re a passionate innovator and you’re good in explaining what you do and why you do it.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Using mostly Python+TensorFlow in Azure

Querying telco big data in Azure

Designing ML components of more complex software products (incl. reinforcement learning, LSTM/VAE encodings, etc.)

Cracking challenging problems of how to develop, productionalize and deploy reinforcement and deep learning models over messy telco big data

Providing ML expert assistance to Head of Product, co-shaping our flagship ML product for customer lifecycle management

Serving as a deep learning Tech Lead, mentoring other team members and help them grow

Co-creating efficient engineering culture

Helping our Medical AI research team in cracking various deep learning issues

Reporting directly to the AI Centre management

Representing us in the machine learning community (e.g., meetups, workshops, conferences, tutorials, blogs, etc.)

Staying up to date with state-of-the-art advances in machine learning

QUALIFICATIONS

Master’s degree and/or relevant work experience

4+ years in the field

Strong analytical skills and creativity

Excellent coding skills in a major programming language relevant to the field (Python, R, etc.)

Excellent skills with one of the major ML packages, and preferably with TensorFlow too

Familiarity with SQL

Strong experience with practical data science and hands-on involvement with deployed ML pipelines in a business environment

Proven and demonstrable track record (e.g. private GitHub, Kaggle achievements, hackathons, redacted/anonymised demonstration of previous data science projects in real business, etc.)

Outstanding ability to turn ideas into algorithms

Excellent communication skills

English in full professional proficiency (you will communicate with non-Czech speakers very often)