Senior Data Scientist - Freelance netguru

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We are looking for Senior Data Scientist.

Position: Senior Data Scientist (LLMs, Economics & NLP)

Location: Remote (CET working hours)

Engagement: 6–12 months, full-time

Contract type: B2B only
Salary rate: 33–39 EUR/hour


Project Description

The client is seeking a Senior Data Scientist (4+ years of experience) for a 6–12 month research project at the intersection of LLMs, economics, and NLP. The role focuses on applied experiments with embeddings, product description classification, and mapping retail data to economic taxonomies (COICOP), aligned with ECB standards. You will collaborate with macroeconomists and policy experts, with outcomes contributing to research publications and policy insights.

Responsibilities

• Research and test NLP/LLM methods for classification and embeddings
• Map consumer product data to economic taxonomies (e.g. COICOP)
• Run multilingual model experiments and evaluate robustness/interpretability
• Collaborate with economists to translate results into actionable insights

Requirements

Must-haves:

• MSc/PhD in Data Science, Economics, ML, Computational Linguistics, or related field
• 4+ years’ experience in NLP, LLMs (BERT/GPT), and embeddings
• Experience in empirical economics or high-frequency data analysis
• Strong Python skills (PyTorch/TensorFlow, Hugging Face)
• Excellent research and analytical skills
• Very good command of written and spoken English (C1) is required.
• Nice-to-haves:
• Economic modelling experience
• Exposure to multilingual AI challenges
• Publications or open-source contributions

Benefits

In return, we offer:

• Flexibility: 100% remote work.
• Professionality: dev-friendly processes, like Continuous Integration and Code Review, work in line with Agile methodology.
• Diversity: projects from various industries like fintech, healthcare, insurance, or education.
• Growth: work with a team of experts and continuous development of your hard and soft skills.
• Knowledge: knowledge sharing sessions, internal knowledge base.

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