We - Cafeyn Group

With 15 years of existence, Cafeyn Group is a multi-brand company composed of Cafeyn, Blendle, MiLibris and KidJo and based in France, Netherlands, UK, Canada and Morocco. With almost 140 employees, we propose a media experience through different products. We want to achieve strong business performance across the Cafeyn Group through organic growth, diversified revenue streams and sustainable profitability. New opportunities are continuously sought by investment both within and outside of the business. We deliver high-value, high-focus and forward-thinking, premium infotainment (information & entertainment content) services to our partners and customers, with personalised and relevant information to entertain and educate our audience, broadening their perspective and making them more knowledgeable.

Your responsibilities

As a Data Scientist, you'll be part of the awesome Data team, which consists of Data Scientists, Data Analysts, Data Engineers, and BI Engineers. You'll work closely with this data team and the Product team to envision, develop, and optimize features benefiting the Cafeyn product.

The Data Science playfield

Data Science at Cafeyn powers product features for recommendations and personalization, aiming to boost user satisfaction and engagement by delivering the right content at the right time. It handles pipelines, models, and algorithms to analyze content from publishers and user interactions, and develops systems for personalized recommendations and search.

Your missions

Broadly speaking Data Science has 3 three working areas that are covered by members of the team.

• Machine Learning/AI - Training, tuning and applying predictive models
• Analytics and Statistics - Analyzing large-scale behavioral data, and designing, analyzing, and executing experiments.
• Engineering - Designing and building data applications and services

As a Data Scientist, you will specifically be working on:

Analyzing User Behavior and Interaction

• Gather actionable insights into content preferences across different times of the day and week.
• Understand how users explore and discover content to refine recommendation strategies.

Designing, Implementing, and Analyzing Experiments

• Conduct experiments to improve metrics like recommendation adoption rates and content-driven newsletter click-through rates.
• Apply advanced testing methods such as multi-armed bandit algorithms and Bayesian optimization for effective experimentation.

Optimizing and Tuning ML/AI Models

• Focus on training, retraining, and fine-tuning models to maximize performance for specific tasks.
• Enhance capabilities like article topic classification and geographic location identification in content.

Your must-have skills and education

• MSc or comparable degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or an adjacent field.
• At least 4 years' experience as a Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer or similar role, and at least 2 years' working with NLP technologies (text representation, semantic extraction techniques, data structures and modeling) and/or Large Language Models
• Well-organized and a self-starter, having the ability to work independently
• Basic proficiency in Python
• Ability to understand technical documentation and research papers to keep up with the state of the art in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing

Note: the position and theapplication process arein English.

Our Perks and what's Included
ClassPass subscription, for any sports addict or a wellness moment
Flexible remote-work policy: 2 days at the offices / 3 remotes per week, you can still come more if you want to.
Work from any of our office 4 weeks/year
VIP access to Cafeyn app
Health Insurance (60% paid by Cafeyn in France)
Lunch voucher (60% of 9e paid by Cafeyn in France)
CSE in France

Our internal Tools
Slack for internal communication
Confluence for shared information and documents
Google meets for virtual meetings (all meetings are recorded and archived)
And many others...

Our Rituals
Congrats slack channel where we celebrate appreciation, win, and anniversary
All-hands meetings where we share business updates, and strategy in total transparency
We promote monthly events, where we join seminars, team building/off-site, sportive & team events

We believe that equality and diversity make us a better company and community.You don't have to match all the requirements, if you feel this offer could be a great opportunity for you, reach out anyways! We hire based on talent and we promote inclusivity inside Cafeyn and strongly believe that our culture is strongest when it is the most diverse.

Department Data - Science Locations Paris , Utrecht Remote status Hybrid Remote Employment type Contract