Senior Data Scientist

About the company

Lab space is in an incubator building with shared equipment and a loading dock. Sigurðardóttir Iðnaður is a seed-stage biotech with 15 scientists in shared lab space in Reykjavik. Friday afternoons are set aside for seminars and journal club.

Role overview

This is a newly created position. Sigurðardóttir Iðnaður needs someone comfortable with both statistics and production code. Remote position. Most of the team is in Reykjavik, but nobody is required to come in. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

Day to day

• Validate model performance and document assumptions and limitations
• Package reusable code instead of leaving it in one-off notebooks
• Translate vague business questions into problems the data can actually answer
• Work with ML engineers to move models into production and monitor drift

You'll need

• 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
• MS or PhD in statistics, economics, computer science, physics or another quantitative field, or a BS plus equivalent experience
• Comfort with Jupyter, VS Code or Databricks notebooks

Benefits

• Lunch benefit
• Wellness allowance
• Flexible working hours
• Occupational pension
• Five weeks of annual leave
• Training budget

Candidates must be eligible to work in Iceland.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Sigurðardóttir Iðnaður ehf..