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Data Scientist (Recommendations)

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Senior (5-10 years)
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Offer summary

Qualifications:

5+ years programming experience, Experience in building recommendation systems.

Key responsabilities:

  • Lead building recommendation algorithms
  • Extract relevant info from large datasets and design efficient algorithms

Job description

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Your missions

About us
We are Knowunity, Europe's fastest growing EdTech app. Our goal is to create a future where every student can access, enjoy, and benefit from quality education. Since founding Knowunity in 2020, we have been committed to revolutionizing how students learn and consume education on a global scale. Today, we are the daily learning companion of over 12 million students across 9 countries in Europe and the U.S. We bring together a global peer-to-peer community that supports each other throughout school, and our mission is to grow this community to 20 million students in 2024 and beyond.

Backed with over $25 million in funding by leading VCs and angel investors, including Project A, Redalpine, Stride, Mario Götze, Verena Pausder, and more, we are heavily focused on building the AI-driven daily learning companion for every student on the planet. Together, we are leading the transformation of making education accessible, social, and impactful for all.


Become part of our educational revolution - we are ready to change the world!

Your mission
We are looking for a motivated Data Scientist who will lead the building of recommendation algorithms that will further enhance the learning experience for our users. As Data Scientist, you will be part of our team of highly experienced developers and will report directly to Lucas Hild, Knowunity Co-Founder and CTO.

Your mission will be to...
  • Lead the building of large-scale recommendation algorithms and systems, including content recommendations in Knowunity
  • Productionise recommendation algorithms for over 12 Million students
  • Extract relevant information from large amounts of various data and design algorithms to explore users' latent interests efficiently
  • Closely collaborate with the search team to improve search relevance through recommendations
This mission is awesome, because you will…
  • Shape the recommendation system at Knowunity and thereby helping students succeed
  • Play an integral part in the expansion of Europe's fastest growing EdTech Startup
  • Have direct impact with your decisions on millions of students from around the globe
Your story
  • 5+ years of programming experience
  • Experience in building recommendation systems at a bigger scale using Collaborative Filtering, Matrix Factorization, Deep Neural Networks, etc.
  • Ability and desire to rapidly learn new technologies and use different approaches to problem solving
  • Business fluent in English
  • You believe in the power of speed and execution and love to get your hands dirty
  • You are obsessed to serve the user and strive to deliver over sticking to processes
What we offer
Memberships: Urban Sports Club, become.1, Likeminded
Discounts: 
corporate benefits, FutureBens, Plantclub
Events: 
Team events, company events, sports & wellbeing events
Development: 
Personal development budget, hackathons, mentoring
Office: 
Breakfast, fruits & snacks, coffee, tea & soft drinks, dog friendly
Remote: 
Hybrid work, travel budget, team workations

Our Tech Stack

Our Tech StackHow it is to work at Knowunity
"Coming from FAANG and other enterprise environments - working at Knowunity feels refreshing.
Motivating and ethically sound company mission - ✅
Large volumes of super-interesting data - ✅
Learning opportunities - BIG ✅
End to end visibility (from research to prod) - ✅
Welcoming team and iterative culture - ✅
Ability to try and leverage state of the art AI - ✅
Leadership who understand and appreciate technical nuance - ✅
If learning and growth mindset is your thing - this is the perfect place to be at."

Adam - AI Lead at KU (previously 10 years AI at Apple)
How to apply
Did we spark your interest to join our educational revolution? Click on "Apply for this job" and submit our short application form. We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements.

We can't wait to hear from you!

At Knowunity, we actively foster an inclusive and diverse workplace that ensures equal opportunity for all qualified applicants, regardless of nationality, ethnic or national origin, skin color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or marital status. Please refrain from including your picture and age with the application.

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Experience

Level of experience: Senior (5-10 years)
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Soft Skills

  • Open Mindset
  • Analytical Skills

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