Trainee Data Scientist — Build Models & Visualizations

Continental; Braga; On-site; EUR 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Continental in Portugal is seeking a Junior Data Scientist to join our global Data Science team on a temporary replacement. This entry point role welcomes someone with university projects or a thesis and a strong motivation to learn in a professional environment.

You will contribute to data science projects, prepare data, build initial models in Python, visualize results, and document work while collaborating with domain experts and mentors.

Qualifications

• University degree in a quantitative field (see above).
• Experience with Python and common data analysis libraries.
• Good English communication, written and spoken.
• Experience with data science topics via coursework, thesis, internships, or projects.
• Basic statistics, data preparation, model training, validation and metrics.
• Ability to present analyses clearly and learn from feedback.
• Curiosity, structured problem solving, reliability and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to Data Science projects with guidance from experienced colleagues.
• Work with domain experts to translate business questions into analytical tasks.
• Explore, clean and prepare data from different sources for analysis.
• Develop and evaluate initial statistical or ML models using Python.
• Create visualizations and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Document datasets, experiments, assumptions, results and reusable code.
• Use Git and follow coding, review, quality, security and compliance practices.
• Participate in team ceremonies, knowledge-sharing sessions and peer reviews.
• Support handover and continuity of ongoing activities.

Skills

Python

Data analysis

English communication

Git

Education

University degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a comparable quantitative field

Tools

Pandas

NumPy

Scikit-learn

Python basics

Job description

Continental in Portugal is seeking a Junior Data Scientist to join our global Data Science team on a temporary replacement. This entry point role welcomes someone with university projects or a thesis and a strong motivation to learn in a professional environment.

You will contribute to data science projects, prepare data, build initial models in Python, visualize results, and document work while collaborating with domain experts and mentors.