Junior Data Scientist

Who we are

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. Founded in 2008, we now have 620 employees. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

DCD Data has an opening for a Junior Data Scientist. The Forecasting team works directly with product and finance. You'll design experiments, build forecasts and explain the results. Remote within Hungary. The team meets in Budapest once a quarter, travel covered. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

Job duties

• Partner with data engineering on feature tables and data quality
• Build predictive models in Python using scikit-learn, XGBoost or LightGBM
• Package reusable code instead of leaving it in one-off notebooks
• Develop time series forecasts with Prophet, statsmodels or gradient-boosted approaches
• Translate vague business questions into problems the data can actually answer
• Pull and shape data with SQL from Snowflake, BigQuery or Databricks
• Present findings to product, marketing and finance leaders with clear recommendations

Required qualifications

• 1+ years of applied data science experience
• Experience building and validating machine learning models on real business data
• Solid grasp of statistical inference, regression and experimental design
• Comfort with Jupyter, VS Code or Databricks notebooks

Benefits

• Private medical care
• Extra annual leave days
• Remote work allowance
• Language courses

Start: Immediately.

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