Senior Data Scientist (NLP)

Location: Bucharest, Romania; hybrid workplace

Company

hirify.global operates a global consumer panel and research platform, with hirify.global Shopper focused on enriching purchase data from shop receipts and consumer panel users.

What you will do

• Lead a workstream by defining its technical approach, breaking work into tasks, coordinating data scientists and engineers, and owning technical decisions.
• Develop, implement, standardize, and productionize NLP and machine learning solutions for text classification, clustering, entity recognition, and semantic search.
• Perform exploratory data analysis and create visualizations to communicate patterns and trends to stakeholders.
• Contribute to Agile planning, raise risks and uncertainties, challenge priorities, and present progress during sprint reviews and system demos.
• Evaluate new Data Science, machine learning, and NLP approaches; improve methods, tools, and best practices.
• Share knowledge, mentor less experienced colleagues, and collaborate across hirify.global Shopper teams and projects.

Requirements

• Typically 5+ years of professional experience in data science, applied machine learning, or a related field.
• Experience leading a workstream, project, or initiative, coordinating contributions and owning technical decisions.
• Expert knowledge of statistics, probability, machine learning techniques, statistical modeling, and predictive modeling.
• Expert proficiency in Python and its data science ecosystem, including pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, and statsmodels; good working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL.
• Strong experience with NLP techniques and libraries, including tokenization, embeddings, transformers, Hugging Face Transformers, spaCy, or NLTK.
• Exposure to deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.
• Good understanding of AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud environments and architectures for data and machine learning workloads.
• Ability to clearly communicate sophisticated analytical information to technical and non-expert audiences.
• Working knowledge of Jupyter, Python coding standards and best practices, Git, GitLab, and CI/CD awareness; tools include PyCharm, R-Studio Server, Zeppelin, JIRA, Confluence, Teams, and Miro.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a cross-functional Agile environment with machine learning engineers, developers, and data scientists.
• Contribute to hirify.global’s social mission of making people’s opinions heard in local, national, and international communities.
• Values include being fast, fearless, innovative, accurate, ethical, diligent, respectful, and trust-based.
• Benefits support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing, with an emphasis on belonging and an inclusive workplace.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions based on occupational qualifications, merit, and business need.