Senior Data Scientist (m/f/d)

Arbeitgeber: TechMinds GmbH

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stage. Tasks You develop and improve the distributional forecasting

models of a growing software company in the grocery retail sector,

working across model architecture, calibration and coverage You deepen

existing production models, monitor forecast quality metrics

continuously and act quickly when performance degrades You identify

where current approaches reach their limits and shape what comes next

methodologically You make substantial contributions to the inventory

simulation and ordering policy framework and drive improvements

through to production You shape the technical direction in your focus

area, contribute to methodology decisions and hold a high bar for code

quality, testability and production readiness across the team You take

responsibility for end-to-end pipeline quality, from input data

integrity through forecast output to the performance of live order

recommendations, including regular backtesting and monitoring You ship

production-quality work with well-tested, readable and thoroughly

reviewed code, using agentic AI coding tools (e.g. Claude Code,

Cursor) as part of your daily workflow You work closely with

engineering, product, sales and customer operations and translate

operational findings from store level into product improvements

Profile You hold an MSc or PhD in a quantitative field such as

statistics, mathematics, physics, operations research or computer

science You have built systems that make decisions under uncertainty

with real operational consequences, not just research prototypes Your

background is in at least one of probabilistic forecasting, stochastic

inventory simulation or operations research, with solid working

knowledge across the others You are deeply familiar with

distributional and probabilistic forecasting methods (e.g. quantile

regression, LGBM with distributional output, GAMLSS-type models,

conformal prediction) You have a solid grounding in stochastic

inventory theory, newsvendor models, related ordering policies and

service level optimisation You write production-grade Python and SQL

on large, messy, real-world data and have experience with ML model

evaluation and monitoring in production settings You are comfortable

working with GCP (BigQuery, Cloud Run, Vertex AI) and dbt, and you are

familiar with workflow orchestration (Airflow or Cloud Composer), Git,

containerisation and CI/CD You use agentic AI coding tools (Claude

Code, Cursor or similar) with daily fluency You translate complex

mathematical reasoning into decisions that product teams and

non-technical colleagues can act on You ideally bring experience from

supply chain optimisation, demand planning or retail, ideally combined

with startup or scale-up experience You are fluent in English; German

is not required Benefits You receive an attractive compensation

package including equity participation (VSOP) Home-Office

possibilities 30 vacation days You receive individual relocation

support if you are moving to Berlin Kontakt Further details apart from

the job description as well as information about the company are

available during the application process.