Data Scientist (M/F)

Paris, Metz

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SESAMm

SESAMm is a leading provider of AI-powered insights, enabling global financial firms and corporations with ESG controversy and investment signals and more.

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SESAMm

SESAMm (www.sesamm.com) extracts behavioral insights from millions of unstructured text data sources across the public internet in over 100 languages, helping clients distill valuable intelligence on businesses and their customers to make investment decisions and manage risk. 

We work with many well-known firms around the world in private equity, investment banking, insurance, and asset management to apply Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence algorithms to track e-reputation, competitive positioning, sentiment analysis, risk and ESG factors.

SESAMm is growing quickly, with over 100 team members around the globe and offices in Paris, New York, London, Metz, Tunis, and Tokyo.

Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you dream of joining a growing company, proposing new ideas, and taking part in innovative processes?

At SESAMm, everyone brings their ideas, skills, and creativity. We value collaboration, support and teamwork. We learn every day from the experience of this great team and we constantly take up new challenges. We are proud of the work accomplished and to participate in the success of this great adventure! 

Key technologies: Alternative Data, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Quantitative Analysis.

 

The Data Scientist Role

As part of the Customer Success Team, you will participate in client-facing projects. Your goal will be to extract the data from our textual data lake, perform data analysis on text data (NLP algorithms), data cleaning, train machine learning algorithms on different types of indicators or on textual data, and analyze the relevance of the modeling.

You will be joining a rapidly expanding team early in its growth cycle, which means you will have an opportunity to shape the team’s culture.

Key Activities

  • Detect patterns, implement tests and evaluate on datasets;
  • Perform data preprocessing and feature engineering;
  • Monitor, analyze and improve the NLP pipelines
  • Understand and generalize Machine Learning models;
  • Use and evaluate relevant Machine Learning tools;
  • Write analysis reports;
  • Understand clients needs and propose technical solutions to product teams. 

 

Desired Background and Skills

Education

  • Master’s degree in a quantitative field (mathematics or data science) with strong IT skills.

Experience

  • At least 2 years of experience in Data Science

Skills

  • Software: Strong skills in Python and Machine Learning libraries (Numpy, Pandas, Sklearn, Keras, Matplotlib);
  • Fluent English speaker with good writing skills
  • Strong interest in complex Machine Learning models (supervised & unsupervised, deep learning etc.);
  • In depth knowledge of Machine Learning principles and practices;
  • Basic statistic knowledge;
  • Usage of Cloud services as AWS is a plus; 
  • Usage of Docker is a plus;

Optional: if you have a personal project that could be interesting for your application please attach a link to your github.

Benefits of Working at SESAMm

Flexibility: Team members can work remotely and have the opportunity to work with colleagues around the world.

Work environment: SESAMm is multicultural, with technology, sales, and management teams in the US, France, and Tunisia making important contributions to the company’s growth.

Career development: SESAMm is growing quickly, which means the opportunities for your own growth are continually expanding, and that you can shape the company’s culture and evolution.

Professional evolution: SESAMm values training and knowledge-sharing. We organize internally and externally led training sessions and pay for access to educational platforms.

Transparency: You will be kept apprised of the company’s continuing evolution and performance through monthly “Ask Me Anything” meetings, frequent business/finance updates, and strategy-sharing discussions.

Well-being: Building a good culture is key to building a good business at SESAMm. We focus on being a learning organization that values and supports teamwork, thoughtfulness, and work/life balance.

Job Specifics

  • Location: Paris/Metz
  • Duration: Permanent
  • Type of contract: Full time
  • Start Date: ASAP

 

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Country: France
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