Data Scientist Senior

Orise Manufacturing AI (formerly: Yazzoom) is a team of skilled AI/ML software specialists. We are based in Ghent, Belgium, and a part of Digital Business Unit of the global automation, digitalization, and consultancy powerhouse Orise. We specialize in delivering AI-driven research and software solutions that help our customers optimize their production processes. Alongside our custom AI and computer vision projects, we've developed Orise Digital AI (formerly known as Yanomaly), a cutting-edge software tool for anomaly detection and predictive analytics on machine-generated data.
You will use various ML / AI / data science libraries and work on a variety of applications. Next to the standard AI/ML libraries, you will get to learn about various state of the art technologies including Elastic, Kafka, Kubernetes and Luigi. Finally, you will have the exciting opportunity to look behind the scenes of our many industrial customers from various sectors, including (petro-) chemical, pharma and biotech, paper and pulp, automotive, metallurgy and food-and-beverage.
Here's a selection of some projects where we've built software solutions for our customers:
Predictive modelling of prices and probability of winning second-hand cars in an online auction using AI
Optimizing and controlling in real-time the use of Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plants based on predictions of the evolution of electricity prices to help maintain the balance on the electric grid
Detecting anomalies in a variety of industrial processes: chemical processes, assembly lines, combined heat and power (CHP) plants, paper machines, ... As part of the team, you'll sharpen and expand your skills in data science and software engineering. Applying your data science expertise and the Orise Digital AI algorithms to real-world industrial or IoT data: pre-processing, cleaning, training, and evaluating anomaly detection and predictive models in Jupyter notebooks or in the UI of Orise Digital AI.
Enhancing algorithms in our scalable big-data platform for AI-based anomaly detection and predictive modeling.
Developing and implementing AI/ML solutions for various data types (timeseries, tabular, etc.).
Creating Proof of Concepts in notebooks and integrating algorithms into customer workflows, including training and support.
Interfacing with diverse data sources via connector pipelines (SQL, Elasticsearch, Kafka, REST APIs, etc.).
Tuning algorithms and data pipelines for optimal performance when required.
Proficiency in Python and its data science stack (pandas, scikit-learn, Jupyter, Luigi, etc.).
Strong knowledge of data mining and machine learning. A Bachelor's or master's degree in AI/ML, Computer Science, Bioengineering, Physics, or a related field.
Fluency in English or Dutch (spoken and written).
Bonus skills: familiarity with Kafka, Elastic, Grafana, or Linux scripting.
A drive to learn and apply new technologies to solve real-world problems, with an interest in industrial production processes.
We provide the opportunity for training and, where appropriate, supervision by experienced senior colleagues. A supportive team of smart professionals who value hard work, innovation, and celebrating success
We give a lot of confidence to our employees and expect them to use it wisely.
You will get to work in a winning team of smart professionals with diverse backgrounds (not only computer science) on a variety of challenging projects.
A competitive remuneration package, including perks like a company car or free public transport, a wage bonus, meal vouchers, retirement fund contributions, a flex income plan, and a generous training budget
The main location and base for this job is our office in The Office, Moutstraat 88, Gent (optionally one day per week working from home) - about 10 minutes from the Sint-Pieters train station by bike, and a few minutes from the E17 motorway.