Senior Data Scientist

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About the role

  • 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.

Benefits

  • EXFO is an equal opportunity employer
  • Inclusive environment committed to diversity

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

PythonSQL

Location requirements

HybridQuebec CityCanada

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