Data Scientist

Summary

Join alcemy and play a key role in ensuring customers successfully use its product, contributing to customer satisfaction and company growth. Improve internal processes and develop data tools to streamline tasks, enabling support for more customers. Prepare and configure customer data for machine learning models. Collaborate with Customer Success and Product teams. Within six months, become an integral part of the team, estimating project scope, presenting data-driven insights, and contributing to the tech stack. The role involves working with data to optimize cement production and reduce carbon emissions. The position requires experience in data science, machine learning, and project management.

Requirements

• You care deeply about tackling climate change and want your work to contribute to meaningful impact
• You are an experienced data scientist
• You have an inquisitive thinking style that helps you investigate complex data to find not only answers to open questions but also the relevant questions themselves
• You know your way around Python (incl. its data science stack) and SQL (PostgreSQL)
• You have a good understanding of machine learning (ideally using time series data)
• You test your code, can use the command line, and have experience with git and modern CI/CD pipelines
• You enjoy creating insightful data visualizations that communicate a clear message
• You don’t like to sit in an ivory tower, but want to make sure your projects are brought to a successful end and have a real impact
• You have some experience managing projects and dealing with internal and external stakeholders. Staying on top of several projects at the same time comes natural to you
• You can communicate clearly (verbally and written) and are patient with non-techies
• You are a team player and enjoy helping your team members excel
• You are detail-oriented, organized, and diligent
• You are okay with some meetings in your calendar (and the context switches these bring with them) as you enjoy the exchange with other teams and customers
• You speak English fluently in a professional setting
• You’re based in Germany

Responsibilities

• Complete our onboarding and get guided through our development and CI/CD process
• Clone your personal copy of our entire production tech stack, including front-end, back-end, and the machine learning pipeline. You can poke and dismantle it to your own liking
• Learn a lot about cement production and the intricacies of our customers’ data
• Deploy your first code to production
• Implement the data ingest and configure the machine learning pipeline to onboard your first customer
• Partner with Customer Success to identify bottlenecks and pain points in the customer data journey, and turn them into actionable improvements
• Begin contributing to the internal tooling that makes our processes faster, smarter, and more scalable
• Be an integral part of our team
• You’ll estimate the time and technical scope of new features as well as their implementation independently, and know how to bring the right people in at the right time
• Present and communicate data-driven insights to team colleagues and customers and play an active role in helping them achieve success
• Contribute to our tech stack and how we work together as a team

Preferred Qualifications

• You speak German or another European language besides English (to the point where you feel comfortable communicating directly with customers and other people external to our organization)
• You have used Grafana before to build dashboards
• You have experience with AWS (esp. S3, SQS, SNS, Cloudwatch), terraform, and Kubernetes

Benefits

• A company culture where honesty, professionalism, and integrity run deep with an open feedback culture and regular 1:1 meetings
• Flat hierarchies, efficient decision-making processes, and an agile company structure
• Competitive market-rate salary aligned with your experience
• VSOP equity options vested equally over 4 years (for working 40h a week/full time)
• Work fully remotely within Germany or from our office in the heart of Berlin with flexible working hours. We offer a Berlin-based contract with a remote clause, meaning Berlin bank holidays will apply
• Of course, free drinks, fruit and snacks in the office
• Regular team activities and team weeks a few times per year
• Mac or Linux laptop
• Budget for personal and professional development - 1500€/year & 3 days/quarter
• English is our main language of communication
• 28 days of vacation per year and an additional day of vacation every 2 years at alcemy
• Access to nilo.health - the comprehensive mental well-being platform that provides access to 1-to-1 sessions with psychologists, group sessions and self-guided tools
• Access to heynanny - flexible childcare and eldercare support with on-demand nannies, eldercare services, live webinars, and one-on-one calls for professional guidance
• Dog-friendly office with specific rules in place, as well as dog-free areas for work and relaxation
• Regular knowledge-sharing through our internal masterclasses