Founded in 2012 and based in Amsterdam, Owlin turns news into actionable intelligence. Our international client base is growing rapidly, and more prospects come knocking at our door every day. That is why we need a best-in-class Applied Data Scientist to join our team. Instead of sitting in a cubicle in a corporate environment, working at Owlin means that you will be making a visible impact while working in an ambitious, fast-growing team and bringing exciting products to the global financial market.
About the job
You will be working in a young and dynamic Data Science Team that aims to deeply understand our clients’ business challenges and build solutions that answer those needs. We leverage cutting edge technologies from NLP and other areas of ML or develop entirely new techniques in-house if need be. Even though deep learning definitely has its place within Owlin, we also particularly value models that can be introspected and adjusted on the spot by data analysts.
About you
You are not the type of person that needs or asks for instructions. You are expected to proactively engage with what is already in place and pitch ideas for improvement. You will make sure your ideas are understood, validated, and implemented in practice as well. You have a passion for technology and the way it is changing traditional markets and institutions. You want to be part of that revolution and are looking for an adventurous job where you can make a real difference.
Responsibilities
As a member of the Data Science Team, you extract insights from our data (mostly structured and unstructured text) and provide new tools and resources for our clients, analysts and developers. As an Applied Data Scientist with a Data Engineering Focus, your core objective is to support the team in turning ideas into production-ready models, infrastructure and code. You’ll get your hands dirty on the command line of Linux servers, and help us develop data pipelines both on and off the cloud. If you also possess bona fide research skills, you are more than welcome to let it show. How you develop yourself within Owlin is limited only by your own ambitions and capabilities.
Hard skills
- Problem solving and analytical thinking
- Demonstrable programming proficiency
- Ability to implement algorithms in Python / NumPy
Numba / Cython / C(++) / JavaScript / GO are a bonus - Solid understanding of data structures and algorithmic complexity
- Experience in Deep Learning and ML general (PyTorch / TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, SciPy, ...)
- Experience in NLP
- Experience with deploying data-processing pipelines
- Experience using Linux
- Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases
- Familiarity with REST APIs and their deployment (Nginx, Passenger, …)
- Proper knowledge of the English language
We also really appreciate:
- An intuitive understanding of business problems
- Strong mathematical and statistical background
Soft skills
- Authentic and ambitious
- Entrepreneurial and pragmatic mindset
- High degree of personal motivation
- Ability to manage your own schedule
- Deep care for end users and their experience
If you think this position has your name written all over it, we sincerely hope to hear from you. If so, please submit your resume and motivation letter.