Data Scientist

Ringier South Africa; South Africa; Remote; USD 3,459 - 5,765; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Co-working spaces in multiple locations

Cutting-edge development stack

Access to international business insights

Commitment to employee growth

Autonomy and flexibility

Job summary

An innovative company seeks a Data Scientist to join their remote team, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to drive impactful solutions. In this role, you'll work with diverse datasets, applying advanced machine learning techniques to solve real-world business challenges. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, develop prototypes, and communicate insights to varied audiences. The company offers a dynamic environment with a commitment to employee growth and flexibility, empowering you to master your skills while contributing to transformative projects. If you're passionate about data and technology, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Strong record in applying Machine Learning to real-world datasets.
• Deep knowledge of the latest advances in the NLP domain.

Responsibilities

• Work with various datasets to solve business problems using ML methods.
• Communicate findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Machine Learning

Python

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Statistical Analysis

Deep Learning

Data Visualization

Team Collaboration

Problem Solving

Education

Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science

Equivalent Work Experience

Tools

TensorFlow

Torch

XGBoost

LightGBM

Langchain

Palantir Foundry

Docker

AWS

Git

DVC

Job description

This is a remote position.

Ringier Data Technology Department is looking for a Data Scientist to join our team.

Our team leverages the latest models to predict financial figures or the best price for an advertisement, create user-facing chatbots and much more applications. We’re also working with cutting-edge technologies, like LLMs, trying to create applications that will drastically increase the visibility of Ringier’s brands.

Role and Responsibilities

• You work with various datasets from different Ringier companies in different business divisions across publishing and marketplaces and in different regions across continents.
• You choose, improve, and apply various methods from statistics, machine, and deep learning technologies in order to solve business problems.
• You model the data of our users, their interests and online behaviour as well as the data of the different Ringier’s business units in order to serve the business demands, and enable the future business models.
• You work closely with cross-functional teams to develop prototypes and products for cross-portfolio use cases.
• You communicate and visualise the value of data by describing the findings or the way how techniques work to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• You keep closely following research and engineering developments mostly in the NLP field, like HuggingFace, LLMs roll in the relevant technologies and methodologies to keep our modern technology landscape up to date.

Requirements

• You have a degree (MS, Ph.D.) in computer science, statistics, mathematics or a comparable degree program or equivalent work experience.
• You have a strong record in applying Machine Learning to real-world datasets in a productive environment and are familiar with the main ML frameworks (TensorFlow, Torch, XGBoost, LightGBM, …) and have strong experience in Python.
• You have worked with LLMs and frameworks like Langchain. You know the best practices and keep following the field so that you use the latest ones.
• You have deep knowledge of the latest advances in the NLP domain.
• Experience with Palantir Foundry is a plus.
• Experience in software development and confidence in developing the full ML model lifecycle from research to production ensuring aspects such as reproducibility and scalability (git, dvc, Docker, Amazon Web Services) is a plus.
• You have full professional proficiency in English.
• You’re a team player and at the same time can be independent and take responsibility for your tasks. Structured way of working and creativity complete your profile.

Benefits

• We are fully remote! Work from anywhere in the world within a 3 hour SAST time zone.
• We have co-working spaces in Cape Town, Mauritius, Kenya & Nigeria.
• A cutting-edge development stack is waiting for your code contribution.
• You will be working with over 80+ highly skilled technical minds (and expanding).
• Backing of the international media powerhouse Ringier AG, which allows us to access world class development resources, shared knowledge and a wealth of international business insights.
• Our teams work with a wide range of tech stacks.
• We are committed to the future growth prospects of our employees by allowing autonomy, flexibility and an opportunity to master your respective skill.

Seniority level

Executive

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting