Your Growth, Driving lasting impact, and building long-term capabilities with our clients is not easy work. You are the kind of person who thrives in a high-performance / high-reward culture – doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.
In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we’ll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible. Your colleagues—at all levels—will invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. Every day, you’ll receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won’t find anywhere else.
When you join us, you will have :
- Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, helps you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. Embrace the fast-paced learning experience, own your journey, and take the input from others to heart.
- A voice that matters: From day one, your ideas and contributions are valued. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions. Diverse perspectives are encouraged as they drive us toward the best outcomes.
- Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 nationalities, our diversity fuels creativity and helps us develop the best solutions for our clients. You’ll learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- World-class benefits: Alongside a competitive salary (based on location, experience, and skills), we offer comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, mental health, and vision coverage for you, your spouse/partner, and children.
Your Impact: As a data scientist at QuantumBlack, you will work in multidisciplinary environments harnessing data to provide real-world impact for organizations globally. You will influence many of the recommendations our clients need to positively change their businesses and enhance performance.
Role responsibilities
- Work on complex and varied data sets from some of the world’s largest organizations to solve real-world problems.
- Develop data science products and solutions for clients and internal teams.
- Write optimized code to advance our internal Data Science Toolbox.
- Collaborate in a multi-disciplinary environment with specialists in machine learning, engineering, and design.
- Focus on modeling by working alongside the Data Engineering team.
- Add real-world impact to your academic expertise; you are encouraged to write papers and present at meetings and conferences if you wish.
- Participate in R&D activities, attend conferences like NIPS and ICML, and share knowledge in retrospectives.
- Work in one of the most advanced data science teams globally.
What you’ll learn
- How successful projections on real-world problems across various industries are completed through referencing past deliveries of end-to-end machine learning pipelines.
- Build products alongside the Core engineering team and evolve processes to scale with data and handle complex client situations.
- Best practices in software development and productionizing machine learning models with our Machine Learning Engineering teams.
- Interpret complex models into user-focused visualizations with our UX and Visual Design teams.
- Utilize new technologies and problem-solving skills in a multicultural, creative environment.
You will work on frameworks and libraries used by our data scientists and data engineers to progress from data to impact. Watch our Protocols series video tutorial. You will guide global companies through data science solutions to transform their businesses across industries including healthcare, automotive, energy, and elite sport.
- Real-World Impact– No project is ever the same; we work across multiple sectors, providing unique learning and development opportunities internationally.
- Fusing Tech & Leadership– We work with the latest technologies and methodologies and offer first-class learning programs at all levels.
- Multidisciplinary Teamwork– Our teams include data scientists, engineers, project managers, UX and visual designers working collaboratively to enhance performance.
- Innovative Work Culture– Creativity, insight, and passion come from being balanced. We cultivate a modern work environment emphasizing wellness, insightful talks, and training sessions.
- Striving for Diversity– With colleagues from over 40 nationalities, we recognize the benefits of working with people from all walks of life… check out our Women Transforming Tech highlights reel and our Kedro playlist.
Your colleagues
Work with data scientists, data engineers, machine learning engineers, designers, and project managers on interdisciplinary projects, using math, stats, and machine learning to derive structure and knowledge from raw data across various sectors.
Who you are
You are highly collaborative, capable of listening to and learning from colleagues, challenging thoughtfully, and prioritizing impact. You seek to improve processes, work collaboratively, and believe in iterative change, experimenting, learning, and improving quickly.
Our Tech Stack
While we advocate for using the right tech for the right task, we often leverage Python, PySpark, TensorFlow, PyTorch, SQL, Airflow, Databricks, Kedro, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud solutions like AWS, GCP, or Azure, and more!
Your qualifications and skills
- Bachelor, MSc, or PhD in computer science, machine learning, applied statistics, mathematics, or engineering.
- Up to 2 years of professional programming experience; experience applied to business problems is a plus.
- Programming: Python (must), R (highly valued), SPSS, SAS, Ruby, Hadoop (valued).
- Data treatment/mining: SQL, AWK, Access, Spark, Excel (highly valued).
- Statistical knowledge is a plus.
- Proven aptitude for analytics.
- Leadership in work or extracurricular activities.
- Ability to work collaboratively and effectively communicate complex ideas in English and Italian; knowledge of additional languages is a plus.
Company: McKinsey & Company
Qualifications: Language requirements, educational level, and experience (senior level, 5+ years).
Tagged as: Industry, Italy, Machine Learning, NLP
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