Senior Data Scientist (m/f/d)

kununuVienna, State of ViennaOn-siteFull-timeSenior, 5–8 yearsListed 1 week ago

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About this role

Your tasks

Your Tasks

- Drive the evolution of our recommendation landscape and shape how people discover employers, jobs and content on kununu.

- Own the full data science process: from framing the problem and exploring the data to modelling, evaluation and production rollout.

- Apply methods such as bandits and reinforcement learning to personalize content in a live, high-traffic environment.

- Design and build LLM-driven, agentic applications on top of a large body of unstructured data, and set up solid evaluation for them, including LLM-as-a-judge approaches.

- Work closely with product and engineering to turn business questions into data science problems and bring your models into the product.

- Define with product what success looks like: choose the right metrics and evaluation strategy, run experiments, and turn hypotheses into empirical results within weeks.

- ML-Lifecycle: Work with transformation tooling to build reproducible data foundations for your models, monitor quality and cost, and improve them over time.

- Mentor more junior colleagues in the team: review their work, share your knowledge and help them grow.

- Act as a sparring partner for the team lead on statistical methods, machine learning concepts and solution design.

Your profile

Your Skills

- Several years of hands-on data science experience, including at least one recommendation or personalization system you brought to production.

- A strong foundation in statistics and machine learning. Practical experience with multi-armed bandit experimentation or reinforcement learning is a big plus.

- You are comfortable across classical machine learning problems such as classification, ranking and scoring, not only recommendations.

- Real production experience with LLM-based applications: agentic tools, LLM judges and evaluation harnesses.

- Solid Python and SQL skills. You are comfortable in a modern data warehouse and with transformation tools such as dbt.

- You write clean, tested and reusable code, and you see version control and code reviews as a normal part of your work.

- You explain complex results in simple terms to people outside data science, and you enjoy mentoring and giving constructive feedback.

What we offer

Your Benefits

- Bring your dog to the office

- 6 week vacation

- Mobile devices also for private use

- Drinks, food & goodies

- Restaurant vouchers and employee discount

- Up to 12 weeks Workation

- Remote work option

- Trust-based working hours

- Communication on equal terms

Contact

Your Contact

You still have questions?
Feel free to get in touch with me.

Barbara

Bárbara Serrano

Recruiting Manager

[email protected]