SENIOR DATA SCIENTIST

(Lisbon x1 day a week *or* remote elsewhere in Portugal)

Xcede are delighted to be working with one of the world’s largest gaming companies on the scale-up of their pre-existing Data Science & Machine Learning Division. The organisation have an enviable wealth of digital / B2C data available to them given the scale of their userbase. The company would like to capitalise further on this, hence their ambitious (but well-defined) hiring plans.

The company is looking to hire experienced Data Scientists at a couple of different levels – Data Scientist / Senior Data Scientist / Principal Data Scientist. Projects will focus on Recommender Systems / Recommendation Engines, Customer Personalisation, etc.

The company have already made some heavyweight appointments, with the ML Leadership team coming from a number of FAANG organisations. This is a fantastic environment to improve your skillset and encounter new ideas.

Requirements

• An academic background in Statistics, Mathematics, or Computer Science (or similar)
• A number of years of commercial experience as a data scientist appropriate to your grade.
• Commercial experience in designing impactful machine learning models
• Experience in helping to take these models to production / deployment
• Python expertise proven by writing production quality code

Bonus Requirements

• Recommendation System / Recommender System / Recommendation Engine / RecSys experience
• PySpark experience
• Azure DataBricks experience
• Commercial Deep Learning (including transformers) experience
• Representation Learning Knowledge