Staff Data Scientist - Research and Development (They/She/He)

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About Glovo:

We’re a Barcelona-based startup and the fastest-growing delivery player in Europe, Hispanic America and Africa. With food at the core of the business, Glovo delivers any product within your city at any time of day.
 
Our vision and ambition are not only to make everything immediately available in your city but it is also to offer our employees the job of their lives. A job where you'll be challenged and have the most fun working in through tech-enabled experiences.

Your work-life opportunity:

Glovo is looking for world-class Staff / Senior Data Scientists to work in our Barcelona office for the CORE (Research and Development) team. Are you passionate about the latest developments in ML/AI? Do you want to evolve within one of the fastest growing startups of Barcelona, building high-risk high-reward projects that will change people's day-to-day lives and disrupt the on-demand market? Are you excited about working on various projects from different fields of data science, from NLP to an ETA prediction? Are you resilient to failure, yet persistent, creative, and capable of handling multiple projects simultaneously? This is the perfect opportunity for you!

Be a part of a team where you will:

  • Develop high risk-high reward data science projects in a fail fast - fail often applied research environment
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams across disciplines such as product, engineering, operations, marketing amongst others; identify use cases for state-of-the-art data science applications
  • Publish and present your work in major AI conferences and journals. Guide other data scientists in the company on publishing their work.
  • Contribute to state of the art reinforcement learning experiments in production amongst others
  • Contribute to any of the following applied areas: time series analysis & forecasting, A/B testing, customer analytics, personalisation & recommender design
  • Be able to perform exploratory analysis fast, and evaluate the feasibility of a Data Science project
  • Mentor one or more data scientists. Lead projects technically end-to-end
  • Contribute to the recruitment and onboarding of data scientists

You have:

  • (Must have) At least 2+ years research and development experience in industry or academia. Hold PhD in a scientific discipline such as Physics, Statistics, Computer Science or Mathematics.
  • (Must have) Research publications in high-impact ML conferences or scientific journals.
  • Deep theoretical and applied knowledge in at-least one of the following areas: supervised and unsupervised learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, game theory, statistical inference, bayesian statistics, causal inference, time series analysis, decision theory, mathematical optimisation
  • Experience working with large data sets
  • (Must have) Demonstrable python coding skills. Preferably through your own github projects.
  • Python and/or R experience; can independently prototype solutions to problems
  • Ideally have some experience productionalizing machine learning models
  • Experience a start-up and/or R&D environments
  • Strong presentation skills in communicating with experts and novices
  • Fluent spoken and written English

Experience our Glovo Life benefits:

  • Enticing Phantom Shares plan
  • Attractive Relocation package (if applicable ;))
  • Comprehensive Private Health Insurance
  • Cobee discounts on kindergarten, transportation, and food
  • Free monthly Glovo credits to spend on our restaurant products (and zero Glovo delivery fee on all Glovo orders!)
  • Cool perks such as fresh fruit and healthy snacks every day, beers on Fridays, Culture Days every 2 months!
  • Discounted Gym memberships
  • Flexible working environment

What you’ll find when working at Glovo:

  • GAS: Driven to deliver quality results quickly
  • Good Vibes: Bring positivity and communicate openly
  • Stay Humble: Self-aware and open to learning
  • Care: Uplift people and the planet
  • Glownership: Act as proud owners
  • High Bar: Focus on Top Performance
If you believe you match these values, we look forward to meeting you!
 
At Glovo we believe that diversity adds incredible value to our teams, our products, and our culture. We know that the best ideas and solutions come by bringing together people from all over the world and by fostering a culture of inclusion where everyone feels heard and has the chance to make a real impact. It's because of this that we are committed to providing equal opportunities to talent from all backgrounds.
 
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Glovo is transforming the way consumers access local goods, enabling anyone to get almost any product delivered in minutes. Our on-demand logistics connect customers with independent local couriers who acquire goods from any restaurant or store in a city, as well as deliver urgent packages for a variable fee. As of September 30, 2019, we’re currently present in more than 26 countries across Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. 

For additional information on Glovo, please visit https://glovoapp.com/ | Twitter: @Glovo_ES | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/glovoappES/ | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/glovo-app/