About You 

Are you a skilled Data Scientist with a strong foundation in Python, web scraping, and large language models? We’re on the lookout for someone who can expertly harvest insights from web data, analyze it, and apply advanced machine learning techniques to address real-world challenges.

Do you want to work for an innovative company that is just as invested in your progress? Then we want you!

About the Role

Data Scientists are key contributors to our data-driven decision-making processes at Wazoku. They are responsible for extracting, analyzing, and interpreting large datasets to support business goals and drive strategic decisions. Data Scientists are proficient in data analysis techniques and tools, and they can independently lead complex projects that involve cross-functional teams. Their work impacts multiple facets of the business, including product development, marketing, and customer experience.

A Data Scientist works closely with other data professionals, engineers, Product Managers, and stakeholders throughout the data lifecycle. As a Data Scientist, you should be a collaborative team player with a strong attention to detail and exceptional problem-solving abilities.

About Wazoku 

Will you help to provide clean water to schools in Mexico? To find a better solution to protect astronauts? To invent the next multi-billion market breakthrough? At Wazoku, that’s exactly what we achieve as we; change the world, one idea at a time.

We do this through our enterprise innovation platform that help organisations to find that one person who has that one idea wherever they are to solve their smallest to biggest problems to generate solutions that truly change the world. We work with Global 2000 organisations from the likes of NASA to Nissan and GSK, helping them discover new products and services, continuous improvements, but also ways to sustain our planet.

We are a B-Corp, Carbon Negative, for-purpose organisation with recent funding from Octopus Ventures and we are growing.

Wouldn’t you want to be part of this? To be involved in a new breakthrough idea that helped change the world into a better place? If so – we would love to hear from you!

Responsibilities 

• Develop and implement web scraping solutions to collect data from diverse online sources.
• Clean, preprocess, and analyze large datasets to derive meaningful insights.
• Design, train, and optimize large language models for various NLP tasks.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into data-driven solutions.
• Communicate findings and insights effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Stay current with industry trends and advancements in data science, web scraping, and NLP technologies.

Requirements 

• Proven experience with web scraping using tools such as BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, or Selenium
• Proficiency in Python and data manipulation libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, and Scikit-learn
• Hands-on experience with large language models, such as GPT, BERT, or similar
• Strong understanding of machine learning algorithms and statistical methods
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work both independently and in a collaborative team environment
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex concepts to non-experts

At Wazoku we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role but your experience does not align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

What we offer

Although we work hard, we also recognise the importance of maintaining a proper integration of work/life priorities and providing a culture that encourages creativity and productivity. Our benefits include:

• $20+ USD contractual homeworking internet benefit
• Birthday day off
• Access to English lessons tailored to your needs
• Thanks Ben benefits, including $40 per month to spend on personal well-being.
• Excellent maternity and adoption policy – 18 weeks full pay and then a further 8 weeks at half pay if you wish to take it.
• Excellent Paternity pay – 4 weeks to be taken the year of the birth of the child, 4 weeks to be taken in the second year after the birth of the child.
• December one week shut down over the holiday period
• Mental Health Services
• Employee Referral Scheme – $500 bonus for every person you successfully refer

*Salary range $6,000,000 - $8,000,000 COP monthly depending on experience*

What happens next?

Our recruitment team will be in touch if you're successful so keep an eye on your emails! We'll arrange a short call to learn more about you, as well as answer any questions you have. If it feels like we're a good match, we'll share your CV with the hiring manager to review, and then be in touch to move to the next stage of the interview process.

1. Interview with Recruitment Lead
2. Technical Exercise Interview with Hiring Manager and team
3. Panel Interview with some of the leadership team

Our interview process is tailored to each role. We will always look to make the adjustments you need to bring your best self to interview.