Data Scientist

Data Scientist

EPFL - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

Lausanne, Switzerland

Mission

As a Data Scientist working in the Research team of the Swiss Data Science Center, you will help researchers and other collaborators in academia or the public sector in Switzerland to leverage state-of-the-art Machine Learning and AI methods. These collaborators encompass various fields and carry out projects involving diverse data (tabular, textual, visual, potentially multi-modal), notably in health and biomedical sciences, climate and environment, energy and sustainability, and social sciences.

This typically involves exchanging actively with collaborators and domain experts to understand the precise desiderata of the project, determining which approaches, formulations, and models are most effective to achieve the desired goals, implementing the corresponding algorithms, performing the evaluation hand-in-hand with collaborators, and releasing open-source code and writing research papers when appropriate.

Main duties and responsibilities include

• Working on data science projects with collaborators from the academic and public sector;
• Engaging with diverse stakeholders, in particular researchers across various domains and other professionals;
• Preparing scientific publications for top-tier domain conferences and journals in collaboration with Senior Data Scientists;
• Potentially supervising students at different levels in collaboration with Senior Data Scientists.

Your profile

• MSc in a Data Science-related field, or in Computer Science with a strong background in Machine Learning and AI;
• Experience in designing/selecting and training Machine Learning models for different types of data, including tabular, textual, visual, and potentially multi-modal;
• Proficiency in Python and PyTorch;
• Experience in applying data science and AI in interdisciplinary research or industrial collaborations;
• Creative mindset and good concrete problem solving skills.