Senior Data Scientist

At Kpler, we are dedicated to helping our clients navigate complex markets with ease. By simplifying global trade information and providing valuable insights, we empower organisations to make informed decisions in commodities, energy, and maritime sectors.

Since our founding in 2014, we have focused on delivering top-tier intelligence through user-friendly platforms. Our team of over 500 experts from 35+ countries works tirelessly to transform intricate data into actionable strategies, ensuring our clients stay ahead in a dynamic market landscape. Join us to leverage cutting-edge innovation for impactful results and experience unparalleled support on your journey to success.

As a senior data scientist with Kpler’s risk and compliance team you will develop algorithms that will detect deviations from normal maritime activity and will discriminate trivial abnormalities from those that imply deceptive shipping practices. This venture requires dealing with high volumes of dispersed and often highly imbalanced data.

• Driving the design, rapid experimentation, development, testing and deployment of data science models for flow forecast models and anomaly detection;
• Optimising and fine-tuning models in production, overseeing the continuous monitoring of deployed models, and effectively handling model and data drift promptly;
• Building robust pipelines for integrating data from diverse sources, including big geospatial data, ship mobility data, and document recognition;
• Researching and identifying methods, data sources, and features that will drive business impact and improve models’ accuracy in the current scope of ever-changing world-scale commodity trading;

• Devise efficient solutions to tackle ML/Big Data challenges using relevant, up-to-date methods and technologies.
• Work across the stack to deliver new features end-to-end, from prototyping, to deployment and caring for data drift in production.
• Ensure optimal, cost-effective design decisions that improve performance and overcome scalability limits.
• Own meaningful parts of our service, demonstrating the ability to lead projects independently, have an impact, and grow with the company.
• Identify opportunities for novel projects and liaise with product teams to advance ideas into value-adding features.
• Actively share knowledge and document insights, effectively communicate complex concepts and analysis to technical and non-technical audiences, aiming to support continuous team improvement and drive collaboration.
• Act as a mentor for our junior data scientists, helping to accelerate their growth; you will act as the Tech Lead on some projects.
• Be part of a vibrant Machine Learning community in Kpler, tackling the whole spectrum of ML problems.

• Python, ML libraries (TensorFlow, pytorch, scikit-learn, transformers, XGBoost, ResNet), geospatial libraries (shapely, geopandas, rasterio), AWS, Postgres, Apache Airflow, Apache kafka, Apache Spark.

• You have at least 5 years of experience in the DS role, deploying models into production;
• You have proven experience delivering end-to-end ML solutions that produce business value.
• You are proficient in Python.
• You have expert knowledge of at least one cloud computing platform (preferably AWS).
• You are fluent in English.

• You have expertise on applications focusing on geospatial data and mobility analytics (highly desirable).
• You have proven experience with big data technologies, specifically Spark and Kafka.
• You have experience working with state-of-art ML pipeline technologies (such as MLflow, Sagemaker...) or building a ML pipeline by yourself (Docker, Kubernetes, Paperspace, Airflow...).
• You have a Ph. D. in a quantitative field (computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering...).
• You are familiar with the shipping industry and commodity trading.
• You are comfortable with software engineering best practices.
• You value code simplicity, performance and attention to detail.
• You have experience working in an international environment.

We are a dynamic company dedicated to nurturing connections and innovating solutions to tackle market challenges head-on. If you thrive on customer satisfaction and turning ideas into reality, then you’ve found your ideal destination. Are you ready to embark on this exciting journey with us?

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Don’t meet every single requirement? Research shows that women and people of color are less likely than others to apply if they feel like they don’t match 100% of the job requirements. Don’t let the confidence gap stand in your way, we’d love to hear from you! We understand that experience comes in many different forms and are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team.

Kpler is committed to providing a fair, inclusive and diverse work-environment. We believe that different perspectives lead to better ideas, and better ideas allow us to better understand the needs and interests of our diverse, global community. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives and are an equal opportunity employer.