Sr. Data Scientist Job in Helmond, Netherlands

Electric cars have the potential to benefit everyone tremendously. Not only do they provide a way to reduce emissions and thereby provide us with cleaner air in our cities, electric cars are an important part of the solution to mitigate climate change.

At Lightyear, we love electric cars and know they will prove a turning point in history. We started the Lightyear because we could not just be bystanders of the electric car revolution. We have a very strong drive to accelerate the introduction of electric cars around the globe.

Sr. Data Scientist Job Description

We envision a shift from traditional environment polluting vehicles to clean and affordable mobility. It is our mission to disrupt the electric car market by providing zero emission mobility for everyone, everywhere. We are on the brink of a breakthrough with the upcoming introduction of the Lightyear One.

Do you want to contribute to these world changing goals? Are you looking to make an impact, do you want that everything you do has influence? And are ambition, independence, honesty, sustainability and equality important to you? Then look no further! 

Description
Knowledge of solar cars in every day use is close to none as production solar cars have never been made before. To further improve, our already existing insights, in the every day use of a solar car internal research is being conducted. The research concerns 200 cars gathering data every day. The knowledge you acquire from the data will help people company wide make choices, ranging from engineers to marketing. But we are also looking for someone who can look further and can setup a new department within Lightyear.

Responsibilities 
Being part of a team working on an internal research project, you will contribute to gathering important knowledge for solar cars in every day use. As Sr. Data Scientist your responsibilities stretch from setting out the strategy in the gathering of data through to the analysis of the acquired data but also setting up a plan of all the possibilities in the future looking at the gathering and usage of data.

On the short term this entails:

• Your work will have impact on the engineering side and the marketing side of Lightyear
• Work with up to 2 million new data points per day.
• Your challenge will be to find creative solutions to get reliable results 
• You are encouraged to add value to the gathered data by finding new ways to make use of this data

• Setting up a master plan regarding data science for the future
• Setting up and building the team to realize your plans (together with recruitment)
• Set up new projects in data science relevant for Lightyear, for example in predictive maintenance.
• Develop new projects after consulting your colleagues.  

Sr. Data Scientist Job Requirements

Requirements

• Bachelor or Master degree in Engineering (candidates with a Mathematics or Physics background are also interesting)
• At least 5 years full-time experience in data gathering, data science and organizing and leading a team is a must
• Coding experience, preferably Python (Matlab and R are also interesting)
• Experience with data analysis tools such as Sklearn, TensorFlow or comparable
• Experience in data science with relevant projects
• Self starting, eager to learn
• Availability for 40 hours per week
• Fluent in English (Dutch is a plus)

• High level of autonomy
• A multidisciplinary team of highly motivated and talented people
• A fast growing organization with lots of opportunities
• The ability to challenge the status quo and have a positive impact on a fast changing world
• 30 holidays
• Excellent travel expenses
• We are building towards the future every day, we started in 2016 and we're making big steps. We are also building and improving our conditions for our employees. For example we offer a very interesting option to invest in shares of Lightyear as an employee. We would like to discuss these possibilities in a personal conversation!

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