Data Scientist in SOUTH AFRICA

This is a remote position.

Role and Responsibilities

• You work with various datasets from different Ringier companies in different business divisions across publishing and marketplaces and in different regions across continents
  
• You choose, improve, and apply various methods from statistics, machine, and deep learning technologies in order to solve business problems
  
• You model the data of our users, their interests and online behaviour as well as the data of the different Ringier’s business units in order to serve the business demands, and enable the future business models
  
• You work closely with cross-functional teams to develop prototypes and products for cross-portfolio use cases
  
• You communicate and visualise the value of data by describing the findings or the way how techniques work to both technical and non-technical audiences
  
• You keep closely following research and engineering developments mostly in the NLP field, like HuggingFace, LLMs roll in the relevant technologies and methodologies to keep our modern technology landscape up to date.
  

• You have a degree (MS, Ph.D.) in computer science, statistics, mathematics or a comparable degree program or equivalent work experience
  
• You have a strong record in applying Machine Learning to real-world datasets in a productive environment and are familiar with the main ML frameworks (TensorFlow, Torch, XGBoost, LightGBM, …) and have strong experience in Python
  
• You have worked with LLMs and frameworks like Langchain. You know the best practices and keep following the field so that you use the latest ones
  
• You have deep knowledge of the latest advances in the NLP domain
  
• Experience with Palantir Foundry is a plus
  
• Experience in software development and confidence in developing the full ML model lifecycle from research to production ensuring aspects such as reproducibility and scalability (git, dvc, Docker, Amazon Web Services) is a plus
  
• You have full professional proficiency in English
  
• You’re a team player and at the same time can be independent and take responsibility for your tasks. Structured way of working and creativity complete your profile.
  

• We are fully remote! Work from anywhere in the world within a 3 hour SAST time zone
  

• We have co-working spaces in Cape Town, Mauritius, Kenya & Nigeria
  

• A cutting-edge development stack is waiting for your code contribution
  

• You will be working with over 80+ highly skilled technical minds (and expanding)
  

• Backing of the international media powerhouse Ringier AG, which allows us to access world class development resources, shared knowledge and a wealth of international business insights
  

• Our teams work with a wide range of tech stacks
  

• We are committed to the future growth prospects of our employees by allowing autonomy, flexibility and an opportunity to master your respective skill