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Senior Data Scientist

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  • Level
    Senior
  • Job Field
    Data
  • Employment Type
    Full Time
  • Contract Type
    Permanent employment
  • Location
    Berlin
  • Working Model
    Hybrid, Onsite
  • Job Summary

    In this role, you will develop ML and LLM-based systems to process user-generated data, taking full ownership from problem analysis to deployment in production.

    Job Technologies

    Your role in the team

    • We are on the lookout for a Senior Data Scientist to join our Content tribe.
    • We're building the next generation of ratings & reviews (social proof) systems from scratch - reimagining how millions of users make decisions across our platforms.
    • This is a true greenfield space where we're leveraging LLMs and modern NLP approaches to turn messy, real-world user content into clear, actionable signals.
    • We're in the middle of rebuilding momentum and ownership of these systems, with a lot still undefined and up for grabs.
    • This isn't about incremental modeling - it's about taking full ownership of data products end-to-end: shaping the problem, building the solution, and making it work reliably in production in a fast-moving, high-impact environment.
    • You will own and scale social proof solutions end-to-end, ensuring high quality, reliability, and coverage across languages, platforms, and use cases, while proactively managing drift, miscalibration, and data quality issues.
    • You will drive the product and roadmap through problem discovery, identifying high-impact opportunities, quantifying business value, and translating them into concrete DS/ML initiatives.
    • You'll take ML and LLM solutions from prototype to production, building robust, scalable systems and collaborating closely with backend and data engineering on architecture and data flows.
    • You'll establish LLM evaluation infrastructure, building offline evaluation pipelines and annotation processes that allow the team to make confident decisions about prompt changes, model switches, and system iterations.
    • You will establish statistical rigor in decision-making, designing and owning A/B tests and quasi-experiments, and ensuring credible impact measurement aligned with real business outcomes.
    • You'll define and operationalize meaningful metrics, ensuring evaluation reflects true business value rather than misleading proxies.
    • You'll raise the bar for data science in the team, driving best practices, mentoring others, and contributing to a culture of ownership, pragmatism, and technical excellence.

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    Our expectations of you

    Qualifications

    • You can reason empirically about cost, latency, and quality tradeoffs across model providers and make principled model selection decisions.
    • You are comfortable owning production systems, not just building models, and take responsibility for reliability, performance, and outcomes.
    • You write production-grade code in Python and SQL, and are familiar with ML lifecycle practices, orchestration, monitoring, and modern engineering standards (e.g., CI/CD, version control).
    • You are familiar with LLM-specific observability: tracing chained LLM calls, monitoring token usage and cost, and instrumenting multi-step pipelines for reliability and debugging.
    • You can translate ambiguous business problems into well-scoped DS/ML solutions, communicate trade-offs clearly, and operate effectively in fast-moving, uncertain environments.
    • You bring a strong foundation in statistics and causal inference, including experimentation, hypothesis testing, and robust evaluation practices.
    • You can define meaningful metrics and challenge misleading results, ensuring decisions are grounded in real business impact.
    • You take ownership beyond your individual work, contributing to team standards, mentoring others, and raising the overall bar for Data Science.

    Experience

    • You have hands-on experience with NLP and LLM-based systems in user-generated, noisy, multilingual contexts - with clear judgment on when LLMs add value, when to prompt-engineer vs. fine-tune, and how to optimize prompts systematically at scale.
    • You have experience owning data science solutions end-to-end, from problem definition to production, iteration, and continuous improvement.

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    What we offer

    • Make the most of our hybrid working model and join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week.
    • We offer 27 days of holiday with an extra day in the 2nd and 3rd year of service.
    • We will support you in developing yourself and your career growth opportunities: €1,000 educational budget, language courses, parental support, and access to the Udemy Business platform to explore a variety of online courses.
    • Get moving and release those wonderful, mind-boosting endorphins: Health Checkups, Meditation & Gym.
    • Cash. Dough. Cheddar. Whatever you call it, we'll help you with it: Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank, Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life & Accident Insurance, Corporate Pension Plan.
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    Delivery Hero SE

    Delivery Hero SE

    What started as an ambitious idea is now the leading local delivery company. Delivery Hero is present in around 50 countries across four continents and is on a mission to deliver anything, straight to customers’ doors.

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  • Founding year
    2011
  • Language
    English
  • Company Type
    Established Company
  • Working Model
    Hybrid, Onsite
  • Industry
    Trade
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