Senior Data Scientist

This role will focus on designing and deploying cutting-edge machine learning and AI solutions to drive business impact across Research & Innovation, Quality & Food Safety, and Sales. You will work on high-impact projects such as predictive modeling, causal inference, optimization, and generative AI applications to unlock insights and accelerate decision-making. Location for this position is Barcelona.

Responsibilities

· Collaborate with business leaders to understand business needs and translate them into actionable AI products.

· Apply state-of-the-art algorithms and predictive models (Machine Learning/Deep Learning) to answer business problems.

· Model Development: Build, validate, and deploy advanced machine learning models (e.g., CatBoost, XGBoost, deep learning) for forecasting, optimization, and recommendation systems.

· Causal Inference & Experimentation: Apply causal inference techniques and design experiments to measure the impact of interventions.

· Data Strategy: Partner with data engineers to ensure robust data pipelines and scalable architectures.

· Business Impact: Translate complex analytics into actionable insights for stakeholders in business like QFS, R&I, Ops, Sales, Marketing.

· Innovation: Explore and implement state-of-the-art AI techniques (e.g., generative AI, reinforcement learning) to solve business challenges.

· Mentorship: Guide junior data scientists and foster best practices in coding, model governance, and documentation.

· Design GenAI Evaluation Frameworks GenAI, Agentic and classic ML.

· Implement robust evaluation frameworks within key AI providers, including offline metrics, error analysis, and bias detection.

Technical requirements

We are looking for people having the following technical skills:

· Programming: python (pandas, numpy), Spark, Git

· Modeling: supervised & unsupervised learning

· Infrastructure : Cloud (Azure is a plus)

· Data Science tools/modules: Databricks / MLFlow/ Mosaic. Microsoft / Foundry

· Solid understanding of statistics, causal inference, and optimization.

Additional responsibilities

We are looking for people having:

More than. 7 years of experience in Data Science within a fast-paced and complex business setting, preferably working as a Data Scientist.

A MSc, PhD or other Advanced Degree in a field linked to computer science, applied mathematics, statistics, machine learning, or closely related fields

Experience in Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry is a plus.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering