About the opportunity
We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist - Logistics, Workforce to join our Logistics team to help us create a fast, reliable and transparent delivery experience. You will make an impact in optimizing our on-demand last-mile delivery operations, involving hundreds of thousands of couriers and restaurants, improving the experience for millions orders per day in 70+ countries.
Your mission
- Conceptualize the right modeling approach for challenges in the field of Logistics at scale, together with your squad lead and our stakeholders.
- Innovate new modeling solutions by drawing from fields like Machine Learning, Operations Research and Statistics that drive value for our business.
- Pair-program with your squad to engineer solutions that automate the retraining of models and generation of predictions.
- Provide ideas in brainstorming sessions with your Data Science colleagues to solve the toughest modeling problems together.
- Help defining data needs to bring value to the projects, collaborate with the data engineering and tech teams in planning their roadmap.
- Work with (semi-)structured data from our BigQuery DWH architecture and process with Spark where necessary.
What you need to be successful
- You have at least 3 years of experience applying methods from machine learning to real-world datasets.
- Fluency in Python and familiarity with its scientific/visualization libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, Plotly etc.
- You can transfer business problems from a problem space to a technical solution space.
- Experience in solving regression and classification-type of problems with statistical, linear/non-linear models and ensemble models in particular (Random Forest/XGBoost/LightGBM/CatBoost).
- Experience with Time-Series Forecasting, Operations Research, and Statistics is an interesting addition.
- You know how to work with Big Data platforms such as Big Query/Spark and know how to write a SQL query to pull the data you need.
- You can write maintainable code that follows best practices in software engineering.
What's in it for you
- Make the most of our hybrid working model and join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week.
- Ensuring you and all our Heroes are looked after, happy, and healthy is always on the menu. Because if you're in good shape, then we're in good shape.
- Get moving and release those wonderful, mind-boosting endorphins: Health Checkups, Meditation, Yoga, Gym & Bicycle Subsidy.
- Cash. Dough. Cheddar. Whatever you call it, we'll help you with it: Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank, Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life & Accident Insurance, Corporate Pension Plan.
- Look up and go for it. We will support you in developing yourself and your career: 1.000 € Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support.
- The power of getting together over some food is unrivaled. Here are a few ways to help you do that. All the yum: Digital Meal Vouchers, Food Vouchers, Online Canteen, Corporate Discounts.