About the Role
Aday is seeking a Data Scientist to join its dynamic IT department. This role involves contributing to the company's data and NLP/AI strategy by designing and developing necessary approaches, models, and treatments based on scientific methodology. You will join a growing Innovations team of 5 people, including data scientists and data engineers.
Responsibilities
- Explore approaches, implement, and evaluate NLP architectures (state-of-the-art models, transformers, LLMs, etc.) to meet concrete product needs.
- Participate in defining standards for experimentation, data curation, technical documentation, and model governance.
- Design systems adapted to on-premise deployment constraints, including selecting models with an optimized performance/resource balance, quantization, and distillation.
- Implement rigorous evaluation pipelines to quantify robustness, inference cost, and business impact.
- Collaborate with Data Engineers to industrialize prototypes (containerization, APIs, versioning, reproducibility).
- Present work to technical and product teams, write research notes, and contribute to external visibility (scientific publications, conference participation).
Requirements
- Master's or PhD in Computer Science, NLP, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
- Author of publications, reference technical articles, or structured open-source contributions.
- 2 to 3 years of experience in a similar role, or a CIFRE thesis, with exposure to on-premise deployment constraints.
- Proficiency in Python and NLP libraries (PyTorch, Hugging Face, scikit-learn, vLLM/Ollama).
- Solid fundamentals in NLP and mastery of transformer architectures and approaches involving LLMs.
- Comfortable with Linux, Git, and reproducibility best practices.
- Strong interpersonal skills, ability to work in a team, and collaborate with technical and business profiles.
- Rigor in documenting experiments, ensuring reproducibility, and maintaining scientific standards.
- Intellectual curiosity to follow the state-of-the-art in NLP/AI and explore new approaches.
- Autonomy in advancing open-ended topics, prioritizing work, and reporting results.
Skills
- NLP
- AI
- Python
- PyTorch
- Hugging Face
- scikit-learn
- vLLM
- Ollama
- Transformers
- LLMs
- Linux
- Git
- MLOPS
- Data Curation
- Model Governance
- Quantization
- Distillation
- Containerization
- APIs
- Versioning
- Reproductibility
Location
- France
Work Type
- Hybrid (2-3 days remote per week)
Experience Level
- 2-3 years
Education Level
- Master's degree
- PhD
Salary/Compensations
- Attractive salary based on profile
Benefits
- Swile card (€11/day, 60% covered)
- 10 RTT days/year
- Profit-sharing and incentive agreement
- Flexible work environment
About the Company
- Aday is the leading digital platform for the French press.
- We value innovation and passion.
- We have experienced over 15% growth in 3 years.
- We possess over 40 years of expertise in media monitoring.
- Our team consists of 140 dedicated employees.
- We are revolutionizing media monitoring, offering professionals a unique tool for relevant and reactive alerts, strategic information, and media overviews.
Equal Opportunity
- Aday is committed to equal opportunity.
- This offer is open to all candidates, regardless of origin, gender, age, disability, or other legally protected characteristics.
