Senior Data Scientist with AI product mindset
- Location
- Budapest, hu
- Posted
- Oct 8, 2026
- Last seen
- Oct 9, 2026
About the role
Responsibilities
- 5 years of experience in different Data Science topics (e.g. machine learning, LLM, deep learning) - Deliver independently Data Science projects, bring an e2e product-oriented mindset - Engage directly with clients to understand their business objectives and translate them into technical requirements. - Lead pre-sales technical discussions, demonstrating the value and capabilities of our analytics solutions. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI/ML solutions into the company's product offerings. - Provide thought leadership and mentorship within the team, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation. - Stay abreast of industry trends and advancements in AI/ML to ensure our solutions remain cutting-edge.
General qualifications:
- Fluent English speaker with excellent communication skills, comfortable in client-facing roles. - 5 years of experience in data science or a related field. - Hands-on experience with LLM projects, machine learning, deep learning. - Affinity to building product / product-oriented vision - Domain expertise in any of the following fields is highly preferred: international finance, healthcare, pharma or meteorology.
Technical requirements:
- Strong Python and SQL skills - Leverage cloud-based data science tools on AWS (SageMaker, Bedrock), Azure, or GCP for scalable model training and deployment - IDE (e.g.: Jupyter, VSCode) - Version control Git / BitBucket / AZ DevOps - Core machine learning libraries (sklearn, LightGBM, torch) - Traditional ML projects (supervised and unsupervised) - NLP experience / affinity: Understand concepts of text classification, information extraction - Generative AI & LLM frameworks - HuggingFace / transformers, OpenAI; proprietary API & open-source models - Understand concepts of RAG, build & maintain pipeline, understand concepts of pretraining, fine-tuning
Nice to have:
- Databricks / distributed computing / scalable ML - Familiarity with database systems (SQL, NoSQL) - ML Lifecycle management (e.g.: MLFlow / wandb) - Web frameworks (e.g.: Streamlit / FastAPI / Flask) - Automatization pipelines on cloud (e.g.: Azure Functions, AWS Lambda, Databricks notebook jobs) - API integration - Experience with deploying ML models in production environments - Experience with LangChain / LlamaIndex - Understanding of LLM Agents, agentic behavior, prompt engineering - Being able to differentiate what 'needs' LLMs and what can be solved with traditional ML / NLP
Why us?
- Diverse projects: In each assignment there is always something new either on the technical or on the business side that helps you grow. - Cutting edge technology: You will work with many of the most up-to-date technologies and tools. - Strong and motivating team: We stress the importance of working together in tight-knit, cohesive teams in which members help each other to reach the common goal. - Work-life balance: We help you to feel good individually as well, and coordinate work so as it should align with your leisure activities. - Professional development: There are team gatherings on a regular schedule where colleagues can share their knowledge, and have deep technical discussions. - Focus on company culture: In addition to our business and professional achievements we are proud of the social bonding in the company, which is based on mutual respect and helping one another. - Personal mentoring: You will have your own mentor (just like everybody at Hiflylabs) who you can turn to with professional issues as well as with personal ones.
