Senior Data Scientist

Waving; Noord-Holland; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Stock options

Job summary

Waving is a rapidly growing deep-tech startup using AI and Wi‑Fi waves to detect human movement and protect critical infrastructure. We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist in Amsterdam to own end-to-end data handling, building robust services and translating experiments into real-world performance for security operations.

You will work with real-world sensing data, develop detection models, and deploy them with engineering while collaborating with the CTO and product teams to deliver

Qualifications

• 5+ years work experience outside of academia
• Proven experience with processing real-time data, incl. driving data science, analyzing and cleaning large-scale sensing datasets, creating repeatable pipelines
• 3+ years professional experience with Python
• Proven experience with taking a new product to market, including deployed of the product's systems and maintainance / servicing after deployment
• At least a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Physics
• Experience with RF signals, signal processing (time-series, filtering, FFT, feature extraction) and wireless communication
• Experience in designing experiments and evaluation methodologies, defining metrics, and reporting results with documentation
• Develop, test, and improve models for detection and classification, working closely with engineering to deploy models and iterate based on field performance
• Build lightweight tooling to visualize data, debug edge cases, and accelerate iteration
• Nice to have: cloud environment experience; security industry experience

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end data handling for Waving
• Build robust services to process real-world sensing data
• Develop and validate detection models and translate experiments into reliable performance
• Deploy models in collaboration with engineering and product teams
• Design experiments, define metrics, and report results with documentation
• Create lightweight tooling to visualize data and speed iteration

Skills

Real-time data processing

Python

Data pipelines

Experiment design

Model deployment

RF signals

Signal processing

Data visualization tooling

Cloud experience

Security industry knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Physics

Job description

Waving is a rapidly growing and strongly funded deep tech startup that redefines the

security industry by protecting lives and buildings with an invisible security layer. Using our in-house created AI and Wi-Fi waves we detect human movement in ways not possible until now and use it to protect the world's critical infrastructure. With unusually strong commercial traction across some of the world's biggest airports, ports and government organisations we have innovation partners to develop our technology to scale and we're looking for a Senior Data Scientist to lead Waving's data pipeline. You'll be joining an amazing, talented and fun team that's moving and growing fast and where you'll be making a real impact, shaping the security of tomorrow.

About the role we're looking for

We're looking for a full-time Senior Data Scientist in Amsterdam to own Waving's data handling end-to-end, building robust services that perform in protecting critical infrastructure in real-world settings. Working hands-on with real-world sensing data, build and validate detection models, and help translate experiments into reliable performance in operational environments such as security control rooms - prioritising what matters and driving execution in data science. This is a highly pivotal role, side-by-side with our CTO, Head of Product and the Tech Team to support Waving's near-future scalable product: solving real security problems and delivering real customer value.

What we can offer you

• Being part of an amazing, talented and fun team that's here to make a real impact together
• Being part of a fast-growing and well-funded start-up, using incredibly cool tech to protect the world's critical infrastructure in times when it's needed more than ever
• The opportunity to own and shape end-to-end data handling and shape the company's products
• A fun and fast work culture that's based on trust, freedom and ownership
• A generous salary package
• Equity compensation, stock options on Waving's shares

Who we're looking for

• 5+ years work experience outside of academia
• Proven experience with processing real-time data, incl. driving data science, analyzing and cleaning large-scale sensing datasets, creating repeatable pipelines
• 3+ years professional experience with Python
• Proven experience with taking a new product to market, including deployed of the product's systems and maintainance / servicing after deployment
• At least a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Physics
• Highly valued: experience in working with RF signals, signal processing (time-series, filtering, FFT, feature extraction) and wireless communication
• Experience in designing experiments and evaluation methodologies, defining metrics, and reporting results with documentation
• Develop, test, and improve models for detection and classification, working closely with engineering to deploy models and iterate based on field performance
• Build lightweight tooling to visualize data, debug edge cases, and accelerate iteration
• Nice to haves: experience working in a cloud environment. Experience in the security industry is a valuable asset