Data Scientist: France

You are a recent graduate, looking for your first full-time Data Science opportunity.

As a Data Scientist, you will work on a broad range of subjects actively contributing to the design and evolution of our suite of products focused on fraud detection, anti-money laundering, and claims automation. You will tackle a diverse array of data types, including structured data, unstructured text, documents, and images.

As a member of the data science team, and working alongside our technical experts, your role will be key to improve and roll-out our Fraud Detection solution.

What You’ll do…

• Your role will be to actively contribute to the Insurance roadmap and clients, and working on various data types such as structured data, free text, documents and images.
• Implementation of the data engineering, usually from client extracts to the insertion of the data in our data stores (SQL, ElasticSearch).
• Developing, testing, tuning models and putting them in production for tasks such as fraud detection and automation detection in complex environments.
• Automate key business tasks by implementing them in our production process framework in C#.
• Conduct meetings with clients and interact with external stakeholders, whether it is for direct user feedback, presenting business cases or defining the roadmap of evolutions.

What You Bring…

• Code-savvy , either by having a degree in computer science and/or having developed some apps with actual users—writing scripts for models and notebooks is not enough at Shift, we thrive on people who can write maintainable, production‑quality code that will run everyday without breaking.
• AI-savvy , either by having a degree in machine learning and/or statistics. Having a clear understanding of statistics and machine learning problems, tasks and common resolutions is important to communicate internally and explain to the client how the product is working.
• Client facing . You will need to be comfortable and open to communicating to our clients on a regular basis.
• Business smart . We don’t expect candidates to know the insurance sector, but we want applicants who are interested in learning and mastering the business aspects of our products.
• Fluent English speaker : we are an international company with offices in many countries and 50+ nationalities, the Shift working language is English.
• Advanced command of French , both written and spoken, equivalent to a native speaker.

Recruitment Process

• Talent Acquisition interview
• Coding exercise (where applicable)
• Technical interview(s)
• Hiring Manager interview

Benefits

• Flexible remote and hybrid working options
• Competitive Salary and a variable component tied to personal and company performance
• Multiple Learning and Development opportunities, including Focus Fridays, a half‑day each month to focus on learning and personal growth
• Generous PTO and paid holidays
• Mental health benefits
• 2 MAD Days per year (Make A Difference Days for paid volunteering)

Additional benefits may be offered by country, based on your eligibility.

At Shift we strive to be a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from and hire people who will contribute to the diversity of our company, without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, age, national or ethnic origin, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other non-merit criteria.

Shift Technology is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our application and employment process. Should you require accommodation, please email and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

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