Senior Data Scientist

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, C++, C Programming, SQL, Cloud computing, Scala Programming, Machine learning techniques, Data science techniques, MATLAB Programming, PyTorch, TensorFlow, R Programming

Job Description

FLYR Labs is focused on the relentless application of advanced and intuitive technologies that help transportation leaders unlock their ultimate potential.

Starting with airlines, we provide the Cirrus Revenue Operating System™ that reshapes how travel and transportations businesses plan their commercial operation. We displace legacy data, forecasting, pricing, and reporting solutions with a single enterprise SaaS platform that leverages the latest advancements in deep learning, cloud computing, and user experience.

Our hyper-accurate contextual forecasts enable the most effective scheduling, marketing, and leadership decisions while directly managing the pricing for billions of dollars worth of product and revenue.

Our data-driven, deep-learning-based methodology enables any airline to truly maximize their revenue and accurately forecast outcomes. Data Science is at the core of all of our products, and to expand our vision in the Offer and Distribution space, we are looking for experienced Data Scientists for our Amsterdam office. You will play a key role in ensuring our customers see rapid time-to-value, applying your technical expertise, business acumen, and intuition for innovation to solve complex, applied data science problems. You will design new solutions based on real-time prediction models and optimization algorithms; forecasts of future trends from terabytes of daily data on travel demand; and hyper-personalized price elasticity curves.

What will your destination look like at FLYR?

• Influence the strategic evolution of our real-time predictive models that will revolutionize revenue operations for the transportation industry. 
• Deploy and iterate on scalable practices for model evolution, evaluation, and productization.
• Own responsibility for highly technical tasks and ensure successful project execution. 
• Collaborate closely with FLYR’s Data Platform team to communicate opportunities for tool improvements and to share learnings and best practices.
• Own mission-critical projects to launch new models and capabilities that have an instant meaningful impact for FLYR’s products with major airline brands. 
• You will collaborate in a fast-paced environment with other talented data scientists and engineers to solve ambitious and complex optimization problems in the travel industry.
• You will use product and domain knowledge to translate business objectives and requirements into functioning code related to data transform and model training/inference.
• You will deliver insight from analysis that provides quantitative support to product feature decision making.
• You will act as a member of FLYR’s global data science organization, providing technical guidance and advice to other team members, and fostering a collaborative culture.

We have several openings and are looking for a variety of profile and seniority level; more experienced candidate will also:

• Engage with customers through presentations, ad hoc touch-points, Q&A, and explanation of model performance and behaviors.
• Define and contribute to research in travel economics and optimization, and lead efforts to productize research activities.
• Define and structure research, exploration, and prototyping projects to inform product capability and feature viability questions. 
• Work closely with FLYR leadership to understand and influence strategic product directions by proposing proven and tested solutions. 

What should you pack for this trip?

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in applicable quantitative disciplines (computer science, engineering, statistics, math, or similar).
• Significant professional experience as a data scientist building and evaluating models with direct commercial applicability.
• Expert Python skills and tensorflow fluency.
• Knowledge of SQL and confident in wrangling all types of data in SQL.
• Experience with time-series and forecasting.
• Demonstrated experience delivering innovative data science work into commercial product offerings.
• Foundational understanding of statistical and algorithmic principles relevant to revenue management and network optimisation.
• Ability to clearly communicate status, blockers, risks and dependencies to FLYR and customer stakeholders.
• Intellectually curious and driven to continually learn and expand your skillset.
• Interested in hands-on projects for overhauling the airline and travel industry.

What can we offer you?

• A commitment to your career by keeping the conversation central to your growth
• Dedicated learning and support to stimulate your growth
• Become a shareholder of FLYR and share in our success
• We are dedicated and devoted to our shared success as we are offering permanent contracts right from the start
• You can take 25 days off to provide you with time to recharge your batteries
• Not a morning person? We provide flexible work hours for you to be at your best
• Hybrid working philosophy - work from the office and work from home in agreement with your manager 
• A modern office in the heart of Amsterdam with rental e-bikes and stocked with snacks and beverages, lunch reimbursements, social events and Friday drinks
• Top quality tech equipment so you can be at your best
• Discounts and budget to keep you healthy and fit!

Our Commitment to Equality

At FLYR, we are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and embrace a commitment to have our teams better reflect the world around us as we scale the business.