Data Scientist

About us:

Finchbeam Systems is a 29-person software shop in Leuven. The founders still answer support tickets. Profitable, no outside investors, and no plans to take any. We grow when customers pay us.

About the role:

The previous person in this role moved to another team. The operations team works directly with product and finance. You'll design experiments, build forecasts and explain the results. Remote position. Most of the team is in Leuven, but nobody is required to come in. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll do:

• Present findings to product, marketing and finance leaders with clear recommendations.
• Pull and shape data with SQL from Snowflake, BigQuery or Databricks.
• Validate model performance and document assumptions and limitations.
• Develop time series forecasts with Prophet, statsmodels or gradient-boosted approaches.
• Segment customers and build churn and lifetime value models.

About you:

• 3-5 years of applied data science experience.
• Experience building and validating machine learning models on real business data.
• Data visualization in matplotlib, seaborn, Plotly or a BI tool.
• Ability to communicate uncertainty and tradeoffs to non-technical audiences.

Nice to have:

• Bayesian methods with PyMC or Stan.

Compensation and benefits:

• Training budget.
• Home office allowance.
• Laptop and phone.
• Pension scheme.
• 8% holiday allowance.
• 25 annual leave days.
• Bike plan.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Finchbeam Systems.