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Zego

Senior Data Scientist – Telematics

Zego

. Work with raw, high-frequency sensor data: GPS, accelerometer, gyroscope, at scale .

Posted 4/20/2026full-timeRemote • 🇵🇹 PortugalSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Work with raw, high-frequency sensor data: GPS, accelerometer, gyroscope, at scale
  • Research new behavioural features and detection algorithms
  • Design and build behavioural features and factors that feed Zego's understanding of driving quality
  • Take ideas from hypothesis to production
  • Prioritise simple, robust solutions
  • Lead experiments, validate impact with data, and automate insight generation
  • Collaborate closely with software engineers, product managers, and actuaries

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • MSc (or integrated MEng/MSc) in a quantitative field: Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, or similar
  • Working knowledge of digital signal processing or sensor physics
  • Proven track record delivering data science or data engineering projects into production
  • Strong Python and SQL (we use Snowflake)
  • Experience developing and evaluating ML models on tabular data
  • You've designed, built, and maintained data pipelines from scratch
  • Fluent with AI coding assistants as part of daily engineering work
  • Strong communicator: you translate ambiguous problems into structured ideas
  • Growth mindset: curious, open to feedback, driven to keep improving
  • Nice to Have: Experience applying signal processing to noisy, high-frequency sensor/time-series data in production
  • Exposure to insurance, mobile data, or behaviour modelling
  • Experience with cloud platforms, containerisation, or data orchestration frameworks

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • market-competitive salary
  • private medical insurance
  • company share options
  • generous holiday allowance
  • annual flexible hybrid working contribution

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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonSQLdigital signal processingsensor physicsmachine learningdata engineeringdata pipelinesdata sciencebehavioural featuresalgorithms
Soft Skills
strong communicatorgrowth mindsetcuriousopen to feedbackproblem-solvingcollaborationleadershipvalidationautomationprioritization
Certifications
MScMEng