Data Scientist, Fragrance AI & Analytics Lead

IFF; Neuilly-sur-Seine; On-site; EUR 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office opportunity

Training opportunities

Learning and development programs

Job summary

IFF, based in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, seeks a data science specialist to advance the Scent division's analytics capabilities. You will build tools to accelerate fragrance creation, collaborate with an IT team in Chennai, and generate actionable insights from large, complex data sets.

The role emphasizes translating business problems into models and leveraging Python ML ecosystems to drive innovation in perfumes and consumer products.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Machine Learning, applied mathematics or computer science (Grandes Ecoles preferred).
• Excellent algorithmic and programming skills (Python mandatory).
• You are at ease with ML/MLOps Ecosystem for Python (Polar, UV, Pydantic, FastAPI, scikit-learn).
• You know how to translate a business problem into a model and an algorithmic strategy.

Responsibilities

• Develop the data science capability within the Scent organization.
• Contribute to the development of new tools to accelerate and enhance Fragrance Creation (beta version models).
• Link with IT team based in Chennai / India and ensure effective integration of beta version tools into corporate application system.
• Research and develop analysis, optimization methods to generate competitive insights and formulate into actionable knowledge.
• Explore potential areas where data science should be deployed over IFF.
• Identify potential challenges or risks and provide the information to stakeholders.
• Work with large, complex data sets. Solve difficult, non-routine analysis problems, applying advanced analytical methods as needed.
• Build and prototype analysis pipelines iteratively to provide insights at scale.

Skills

Python

ML/ML Ops

Graph theory

Data analysis

Business problem translation

Education

Master's degree in ML/math/CS

Tools

Polar

UV

Pydantic

FastAPI

scikit-learn

Job description

IFF, based in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, seeks a data science specialist to advance the Scent division's analytics capabilities. You will build tools to accelerate fragrance creation, collaborate with an IT team in Chennai, and generate actionable insights from large, complex data sets.

The role emphasizes translating business problems into models and leveraging Python ML ecosystems to drive innovation in perfumes and consumer products.