Junior Data Scientist

**About BlaBlaCar**

BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel app enabling 27 million members a year to carpool or travel by bus in 21 countries. Our team of 800 employees counts over 50 nationalities and is spread across our 5 global offices, 30% working fully remotely.

**Your mission**

We're seeking a passionate Data Scientists to join our data squads, and help us build the intelligent systems that power BlaBlaCar.
- **Shape the future of our marketplace**: Develop and deploy cutting-edge machine learning models that optimize our core matching algorithms, ensuring drivers maximize savings and passengers find their perfect ride.
- **Enhance platform trust & efficiency**: Build intelligent automation solutions, from real-time fraud detection and AI-powered content moderation (text, images) to leveraging generative AI for automated translation and improved customer support.
- **Pioneer with generative AI**: Explore and implement innovative generative AI use-cases to boost internal efficiency, automate operational tasks, and democratize data access across the company.

**Your responsibilities**:

- **Develop & deploy ML models**: Design, build, and ship machine learning models into production, collaborating closely with ML Engineers to directly enhance our core marketplace (e.g., matching, ETA).
- **Implement automation of internal capabilities**: Implement intelligent solutions for real-time fraud detection, utilize deep learning for profile picture moderation, and leverage LLMs for text moderation and generative AI for tasks like translation.
- **Champion generative AI innovation**: Actively identify, prototype, and implement generative AI solutions to enhance employee productivity and automate key operational processes.
- **Inform company strategy**: Leverage your strong business acumen and data expertise to advocate for data-informed decisions, and impact the company’s strategic decisions.
- **Collaborate across a 360° data team**: Work within our autonomous data team, comprising ML Engineers, Data Analysts, Data Engineers, and fellow Data Scientists, managing projects end-to-end.

**Your qualifications**:

- Knowledge of Machine Learning theory, statistics and probabilities and/or econometrics modeling is required.
- Fluency in SQL and Python. Knowledge of main machine learning packages (scikit, XGBoost, etc) and/or MLOPs frameworks (KubeFlow, Tensor FLow, Vertex AI, etc) are a plus. An experience in developing python data visualization apps (Streamlit, Flask, Dash, etc) is also a plus.
- Excellent communication skills: You are able to explain your models clearly to both analysts and decision makers.
- Pragmatic approach to problems: You can design intermediate solutions in an agile environment, and put them in production.
- Strong business sense: You like to partner with business managers to propose new strategies and validate their hypotheses through data.
- Fluent in English

**What we have to offer**:

- Full remote possible in the country of employment
- 4 additional weeks on top of legal maternity/paternity leaves
- 50% healthcare coverage (Alan)
- Financial support for home office equipment
- Minimum 25 days holiday per year
- Local meal plan policy (Swile card)
- 50% transportation paid (Forfait Mobilité Durable)
- Personal growth via trainings, mentorship, and internal mobility programs
- Free unlimited carpooling & bus rides
- Employee Stock ownership plan
- Regular team building events
- Mental health support through Moka.care
- 1 day off per year to test our product
- 1 day per year for social engagements with non-profits

**Interested in joining the ride?**
- a 45-min video-call with Maxime Gaudillière, our Talent Acquisition Manager to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions
- a 60-min video-call with Célia Fischbach, Engineering Manager, to discuss your experience and share more details about the team
- a 90-min technical assessment with 2 Data Scientists: Raphael Berly, Fabio Cecchi or Riwan Perron
- a 30-min interview with Emmanuel Martin-Chave, VP Data
- BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees._