Senior Data Scientist with AI product mindset

Responsibilities

• 5 years of experience in different Data Science topics (e.g. machine learning, LLM, deep learning)
• Deliver independently Data Science projects, bring an e2e product-oriented mindset
• Engage directly with clients to understand their business objectives and translate them into technical requirements.
• Lead pre-sales technical discussions, demonstrating the value and capabilities of our analytics solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI/ML solutions into the company's product offerings.
• Provide thought leadership and mentorship within the team, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and advancements in AI/ML to ensure our solutions remain cutting-edge.

General qualifications

• Fluent English speaker with excellent communication skills, comfortable in client-facing roles.
• 5 years of experience in data science or a related field.
• Hands-on experience with LLM projects, machine learning, deep learning.
• Affinity to building product / product-oriented vision
• Domain expertise in any of the following fields is highly preferred: international finance, healthcare, pharma or meteorology.

Technical requirements

• Strong Python and SQL skills
• Leverage cloud-based data science tools on AWS (SageMaker, Bedrock), Azure, or GCP for scalable model training and deployment
• IDE (e.g.: Jupyter, VSCode)
• Version control Git / BitBucket / AZ DevOps
• Core machine learning libraries (sklearn, LightGBM, torch)
• Traditional ML projects (supervised and unsupervised)
• NLP experience / affinity: Understand concepts of text classification, information extraction
• Generative AI & LLM frameworks - HuggingFace / transformers, OpenAI; proprietary API & open-source models
• Understand concepts of RAG, build & maintain pipeline, understand concepts of pretraining, fine-tuning

Nice to have

• Databricks / distributed computing / scalable ML
• Familiarity with database systems (SQL, NoSQL)
• ML Lifecycle management (e.g.: MLFlow / wandb)
• Web frameworks (e.g.: Streamlit / FastAPI / Flask)
• Automatization pipelines on cloud (e.g.: Azure Functions, AWS Lambda, Databricks notebook jobs)
• API integration
• Experience with deploying ML models in production environments
• Experience with LangChain / LlamaIndex
• Understanding of LLM Agents, agentic behavior, prompt engineering
• Being able to differentiate what 'needs' LLMs and what can be solved with traditional ML / NLP

Why us?

• Diverse projects: In each assignment there is always something new either on the technical or on the business side that helps you grow.
• Cutting edge technology: You will work with many of the most up-to-date technologies and tools.
• Strong and motivating team: We stress the importance of working together in tight-knit, cohesive teams in which members help each other to reach the common goal.
• Work-life balance: We help you to feel good individually as well, and coordinate work so as it should align with your leisure activities.
• Professional development: There are team gatherings on a regular schedule where colleagues can share their knowledge, and have deep technical discussions.
• Focus on company culture: In addition to our business and professional achievements we are proud of the social bonding in the company, which is based on mutual respect and helping one another.
• Personal mentoring: You will have your own mentor (just like everybody at Hiflylabs) who you can turn to with professional issues as well as with personal ones.