What are the responsibilities and job description for the Junior Data scientist position at Snappet?
Snappet welcomes applications for (Junior) Data Scientists and Machine Learning Researchers. Relevant background are master programs in the Machine Learning space, software development experience, and/or affinity with education.
Snappet’s mission
Improve the learning results of children: that’s what we do at Snappet. Our algorithms are used in more than 3000 schools across Europe and the USA by more than 300.000 pupils. Teachers teach our lessons and pupils answer our exercises daily inside the classroom in primary education. Our content exists for many subjects, of which mathematics and spelling are the most used. Snappet was introduced in the market 12 years ago, and since then the company has grown to 100 employees. This includes our data science and machine learning team of 6-7, and a dedicated mlops team and data engineering team with whom we collaborate closely
Explore the US or Dutch curriculum to get a feel what our platform feels like!
What you’ll do
Work on translating model predictions to meaningful numbers for teachers - based on an understanding of what is important and on solid statistical analysis.
Work together in our team to define & automatically check what makes a model good enough for our platform; collaborate with engineering to put our models and algorithms into production
Join forces with business leads and educational stakeholders to identify and scope opportunities for data science and machine learning solutions
What we offer
A mission of improving learning results for children. This is intrinsic to our culture, and it attracts colleagues that actively choose to put their skills towards improving education
Competitive salary
Personal training budget of 1500 euros per year
A transparent approach to career growth within the company
Agile mindset with best practices in place
Flexible working hours and a hybrid workplace. Most team members come into the office 1-3 days a week, but nothing is set in stone. Fully remote is not possible.
Office right next to Utrecht central station, with travel reimbursement up to 50 km each-way
Foosball table, Nintendo switch, chess competitions, regular knowledge sharing sessions together within our data community & once in a while we go for a drink and a board game after work
About you
Background in Data Science or Machine Learning
Strong Python skills
Team player with collaborative, proactive and positive attitude
You live in the Netherlands
Great communication skills for collaboration with the team, educational & business stakeholders and engineering
You want to learn and grow to use ML for societal impact
An intrinsic motivation to contribute to education together with the team
A plus if you also have
1-3 years of experience working in data science & machine learning
Affinity with education or educational technology
Experience with SQL
Experience with Cloud Compution such as AWS (or Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
Experience with pytorch
Experience with training reinforcement models or transformer models
We are committed to creating an inclusive, diverse and open culture. We find it important that everyone can be themselves and can contribute to our mission with their skills and perspectives.