Senior Data Scientist with AI product mindset
Employer · Hiflylabs
Mathematician
Systems analystSoftware developerFull-timeBudapest
Hiflylabs is a Budapest-based company with 250 employees providing effective solutions to business problems through application development and business intelligence experts. We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to deliver data science projects independently, engage directly with clients, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
Tasks
- Deliver independently Data Science projects, bring an e2e product-oriented mindset.
- Engage directly with clients to understand their business objectives and translate them into technical requirements.
- Lead pre-sales technical discussions, demonstrating the value and capabilities of our analytics solutions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI/ML solutions into the company's product offerings.
- Provide thought leadership and mentorship within the team, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
- Stay abreast of industry trends and advancements in AI/ML to ensure our solutions remain cutting-edge.
Conditions & benefits
Diverse projectsIn each assignment there is always something new either on the technical or on the business side that helps you grow.Cutting edge technologyYou will work with many of the most up-to-date technologies and tools.Strong and motivating teamWe stress the importance of working together in tight-knit, cohesive teams in which members help each other to reach the common goal.Work-life balanceWe help you to feel good individually as well, and coordinate work so as it should align with your leisure activities.Professional developmentThere are team gatherings on a regular schedule where colleagues can share their knowledge, and have deep technical discussions.Focus on company cultureIn addition to our business and professional achievements we are proud of the social bonding in the company, which is based on mutual respect and helping one another.Personal mentoringYou will have your own mentor (just like everybody at Hiflylabs) who you can turn to with professional issues as well as with personal ones.
Requirements
- Fluent English speaker with excellent communication skills, comfortable in client-facing roles.
- 5 years of experience in data science or a related field.
- Hands-on experience with LLM projects, machine learning, deep learning.
- Affinity to building product / product-oriented vision.
- Domain expertise in international finance, healthcare, pharma or meteorology is highly preferred.
- Strong Python and SQL skills.
- Leverage cloud-based data science tools on AWS (SageMaker, Bedrock), Azure, or GCP for scalable model training and deployment.
- IDE (e.g.: Jupyter, VSCode).
- Version control Git / BitBucket / AZ DevOps.
- Core machine learning libraries (sklearn, LightGBM, torch).
- Traditional ML projects (supervised and unsupervised).
- NLP experience / affinity: Understand concepts of text classification, information extraction.
- Generative AI & LLM frameworks - HuggingFace / transformers, OpenAI; proprietary API & open-source models.
- Understand concepts of RAG, build & maintain pipeline, understand concepts of pretraining, fine-tuning.