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Data Scientist Air Liquide job opening

  • 1.  Data Scientist Air Liquide job opening

    Posted 07-24-2014 06:34

    Position

     R&D DATA SCIENTIST

     Missions

     You will thrive in the Corporate Research and Development of the Air Liquide Group, the heart of innovation, providing a stimulating environment with many challenges and new horizons. More specifically, within the Applied Mathematics Group, the data scientist will participate to the Big Data R&D initiative and will provide his scientific leadership to guide the technical choices as a reference.

     The data scientist will be in charge of statistical studies using advanced statistics and data analysis methods (data mining, text mining...) to build descriptive, predictive, prescriptive analytics applied to operational purposes such as healthcare & medical business, industrial processes efficiency and reliability, customer demand forecasting, market segmentation.

     The generic contribution will be to:

    • Execute, manage and deliver R&D projects as part of a global R&D program.
    • Communicate with global R&D team.
    • Contribute to the strategy formulation and to support new applications of Big Data within the company
    • Demonstrate ability to development and maintain strong cooperative working relationships with numerous partners and internal stakeholders. 

     More specifically, the data scientist will:

    • define the needs from the business side,
    • understand the industrial processes and identify the associated databases
    • Perform diagnosis on the content and the structure of the databases (volumetry, types of data, architectures...)
    • Be in strong interaction with IT entities for the requirement to build a big data center/server
    • Perform data mining analyses on samples of data in line with business needs (KPIs)
    • Screen & Benchmark off-the-shelf solutions
    • Advocate for methods and technologies adapted to the applications  
    • Develop prototypes for pre-industrialization for testing and validation by operations
    • Transfer know-how to the team members  and spread the knowledge through the R&D community

       

      Background/Experience required

       

    • PhD (or Master of Science + 3 years of experience ideally in an industrial or medical environment) in Computer Science, Statistics with focus on machine learning and/or data mining techniques including but not limited to supervised/unsupervised learning, advanced regression techniques, and decision trees.
    • Must show command of using statistical tools such as R, Statistica, SAS with strong experiences in various areas
    • Must demonstrate high level of scientific expertise
    • May consider candidates with econometrics background as well. Knowledge in Operations Research will be a plus.
    • Behavioral competencies:
      1. Ability to understand and summarize customer requirements (specifications)
      2. Good interpersonal skills, ability to work in cross-functional project teams and to present and communicate results
      3. Adaptability, multi-tasking and open-minded ability to work in a dynamic changing environment

     

    Contact: Jean ANDRE, jean.andre@airliquide.com