Senior Applied Scientist - Network Behavior | Senior Applied Scientist- Network Behavior (all genders)

Zalando SE

Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
Published Sep 14, 2025
Full-time
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Job Summary

As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will be instrumental in enhancing the precision of delivery time predictions for online retail, directly impacting customer satisfaction and fulfillment planning. Your daily tasks will involve designing, training, extending, and continuously improving prediction models using features extracted from diverse, high-throughput datasets. You'll collaborate closely with software engineers to build robust services and infrastructure for model experimentation and production deployment. A key part of your role will be researching new opportunities, understanding complex business processes, and modeling them effectively to feed into your prediction systems. This position offers a unique chance to create scalable prediction models and solve complex problems within a dynamic, research-driven environment, contributing significantly to business success.

Required Skills

Education

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Experience

  • Strong academic background in machine learning, statistics, operations research, or related fields
  • Experience operating prediction models in production in a microservice environment
  • Experience with end-to-end MLOps frameworks (e.g., SageMaker)
  • Experience with data processing frameworks (e.g., PySpark, Pandas)
  • Experience with Machine Learning libraries (e.g., Scikit-Learn, XGBoost, PyTorch, Tensorflow)
  • Professional experience in delivering end-to-end solutions throughout the development cycle
  • Experience in an international, agile, and cross-functional environment

Languages

English (Fluent)

Additional

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