GenAI & ML Data Scientist – Banking, RAG & LLM

Erste Digital GmbH; Austria; On-site; EUR 47,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Centre – Erste Campus health

Employee benefits – financial services

Employee Referral Program

Competitive salary with collective-agm

Job summary

Erste Digital GmbH is seeking a Data Scientist to co-create digital solutions for banking, applying ML, GenAI, and RAG techniques across internal customers and international projects. You will work through the full AI lifecycle with a focus on accuracy, reliability and regulatory alignment.

You will collaborate with Data Engineers, Software Engineers and AI Platform teams to bring prototypes to production and continually improve models.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with a focus on quantitative disciplines.
• Minimum of 2 years practical experience as a Data Scientist.
• Good understanding of statistical methods and common machine learning algorithms.
• Hands-on experience with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pattern and LLM querying.
• Proficiency in Python, Spark and SQL with practical experience.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks.
• Basic understanding of the banking business.
• English full professional proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Data Science and Generative AI solutions creating measurable value for internal business customers across Retail, Corporate, Operations, Data Quality and other areas.
• Design, develop and evaluate predictive models, ML solutions and GenAI applications including LLMs, RAG and AI agents.
• Cover full DS/AI lifecycle from problem understanding to data prep, feature engineering, model development, evaluation, deployment and improvement.
• Apply evaluation methods and guardrails to ensure AI/GenAI solutions are accurate, reliable, explainable and suitable for banking regulatory needs.
• Collaborate with business experts, data engineers, software engineers and AI platform teams to productionize prototypes.
• Work independently and in teams, engaging colleagues and SMEs to deliver high-quality results on time.
• Stay curious about ML, GenAI and new AI tech to translate into banking solutions.
• Learn and grow while working with multidisciplinary teams across Erste Group.

Skills

Python

Spark

SQL

Databricks

RAG

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in quantitative disciplines

Tools

Databricks

Job description

Erste Digital GmbH is seeking a Data Scientist to co-create digital solutions for banking, applying ML, GenAI, and RAG techniques across internal customers and international projects. You will work through the full AI lifecycle with a focus on accuracy, reliability and regulatory alignment.

You will collaborate with Data Engineers, Software Engineers and AI Platform teams to bring prototypes to production and continually improve models.