Senior Applied Scientist

Software Mind

Senior Applied Scientist developing state-of-the-art forecasting solutions for a leading online fashion platform in Europe. Collaborating with product managers and engineers to identify opportunities and resource requirements.

Posted 4/22/2026full-timeRemote • 🇵🇱 PolandSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonPyTorchScalaSQLTensorflow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Actively contribute to the team roadmap, and work closely with product managers and engineers to identify areas of opportunity and resource requirements to deliver impactful projects.
Conceptualize, prototype, and productionize state-of-the-art demand forecast solutions.
Communicate technical problems and results effectively with other team members and also with (less technical) stakeholders.
Educate them about your products and solutions.
Be the owner of the whole development cycle of algorithms - from opportunity discovery to production.
Iteratively improve models and explore the art of possibility (e.g. new data sources, new ways of structuring the problem).
Build model pipelines and streamline analysis processes, using common programming tools (e.g. Python, R, Scala, SQL, PyTorch, Tensorflow etc.)

Requirements

What you’ll need

Master degree or above (PhD) in quantitative economics, statistics, mathematics, physics, operation research or a related quantitative discipline with a strong theoretical foundation in statistics, econometrics, time series analysis, and machine learning methodologies.
Command of causal inference is a big plus
At least 5 years of industry experience (3 years with PhD degree) in developing forecasting models, using both statistical methods and machine learning techniques.
Understand the tradeoff of each method and their areas of applications.
Have deep knowledge of the state of the art practices in forecasting, but also maintain a bias for simplicity
Extensive experience with Python and its associated data science libraries, including writing production quality code (not just notebooks).
Familiarity with optimization software such as Gurobi is a plus.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a curious and self-starter mindset.
Ability to unblock yourself, but also proactively request support when needed to remove roadblocks

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible employment and remote work
International projects with leading global clients
International business trips
Non-corporate atmosphere
Language classes
Internal & external training
Private healthcare and insurance
Multisport card
Well-being initiatives

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Hard Skills & Tools

demand forecastingstatistical methodsmachine learningcausal inferencetime series analysisalgorithm developmentmodel pipelinesdata analysisproduction quality codeoptimization

Soft Skills

communication skillscurious mindsetself-starterproblem-solvingproactive support seeking

Certifications

PhD in quantitative economicsMaster's degree in quantitative discipline