Senior Data Scientist advancing EXFO’s telecommunications and network analytics. Building predictive models, defining metrics, and guiding AI-informed product and operational decisions.
Responsibilities
Explore, analyze, and interpret product, operational, customer, or network data to identify decision-useful signals.
Formulate and test hypotheses using rigorous statistical methods.
Build descriptive, diagnostic, and predictive analyses, segmentations, and models.
Define, validate, and document metrics, indicators, thresholds, cohorts, and calculation rules.
Assess data readiness, including coverage, quality, freshness, granularity, representativeness, bias, and usage limitations.
Establish and evolve analytical standards and modeling best practices.
Coach peers, share learnings, and contribute to trade-off decisions regarding priorities, risks, and effort.
Support Applied AI in defining ground truth, evaluation datasets, performance metrics, and exploratory analyses.
Collaborate with Data Ops, data governance, UX, AI Transformation, product managers, and software developers to turn insights into action.
Requirements
University degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, data science, or a related quantitative field (master’s degree is an asset).
Significant experience (5+ years) in data analysis, applied statistics, and descriptive/predictive modeling in a product or operational environment.
Proficiency in Python, R, and SQL; commonly used statistical modeling and ML libraries; and Git.
Ability to translate complex analytical results into clear, actionable recommendations for non-technical audiences.
Demonstrated ability to provide influence-based leadership through mentoring, facilitating practices, aligning contributors, and recommending analytical priorities in a multidisciplinary environment.
Bilingual in French and English, both spoken and written.
Assets: experience with Applied AI or MLOps, data governance and quality, telecommunications, networks, or a similar industrial environment.
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