Senior Data Scientist / AI engineer

Overview:

At IDC, we are at the forefront of technological innovation, providing critical insights and market intelligence to businesses worldwide. Are you interested in building industry-leading Artificial Intelligence solutions that drive speed, agility, and differentiation for our business? As a Senior Data Scientist – Supplier Products, you will help us turn our vast repository of data into usable product information leveraging solutions that include matching techniques, machine learning, graph theory, and large language models. This role will have sophisticated analytical expertise; business acumen; a strategic mindset; client relationship skills, problem solving; and a passion for generating business impact.

Responsibilities:

• Dive deep into complex data sets, extracting meaningful insights using statistical analysis and machine learning techniques.
• Own the process of gathering, extracting, and compiling data across sources via relevant tools (e.g., SQL, R, Python). Format, re-structure, and validate data to ensure quality.
• The ability to identify opportunities to use AI to transform business and operational processes for creating new sources of revenue.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business goals and translate them into actionable data-driven recommendations.
• Create and fine-tune machine learning algorithms to solve intricate business problems.
• Leverage ML and AI models (both custom and pre-built) to build predictive systems that enhance decision-making processes.
• Explore generative AI models to generate synthetic data or create novel solutions.
• Clean, preprocess, and transform data to improve model performance.
• Present findings and insights through compelling data visualizations.
• Work closely with product development teams, data engineers, AI engineers and business leaders to integrate data science solutions into our products and services.
• Stay abreast of the latest advancements in ML, AI, and generative models, contributing to our continuous innovation.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
• 10+ years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, applying machine learning algorithms, performing statistical analysis, and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL) (or 7+ years of work experience with a master’s degree).
• 5+ years of data-science experience managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, NLTK, R, and SQL.
• Strong analytical skills and experience with data manipulation libraries (e.g., Pandas, NumPy).
• Proficiency in Graph databases such as Neo4J
• Familiarity with machine learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) and generative AI models (e.g., Azure OpenAI, Google Gemini, and Amazon Bedrock).
• Excellent problem-solving abilities, communication, and collaboration skills.
• AWS Machine Learning – Specialty or Azure Data Scientist Associate or other certifications is preferred.

Perks & benefits:

• We offer a unique opportunity to work on international projects, with daily communication in English and a guided introduction to everything you need to work independently.
• 5 weeks of holidays + extra corporate days off
• Sick days
• Flexibility to work from home most of the week
• Certain flexibility to schedule your working hours
• Cafeteria system 1200/monht (Flexipasses/pension or life insurance/Multisport card)
• Meal allowance 95 CZK net/day

Join our team today and help us transform data into a valuable asset for our colleagues and clients!

Why IDC? 

IDG is a dynamic and innovative data, research, and services company at the forefront of guiding the global technology market ecosystem. Our mission is to help companies grow by putting technology insights into action, and empowering businesses to make better decisions and thrive in the digital-first age.    

IDC, the largest division of IDG, is the most respected global technology market research firm. We are changing the way the world thinks about the impact of technology on business and society. Our people, data, and analytics create global technology insights that accelerate customer success. IDC has been recognized for four consecutive years (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) by the IIAR as the Analyst Firm of the Year which is one of the highest accolades for the technology market research industry. 

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