Data Scientist

Position: Data Scientist

Location: Calgary, Alberta

Introduction

We are seeking a Data Scientist to support our team for a 12-month term – working as part of our growing data science chapter. This role involves working with a highly dynamic squad focusing on building digital products for our end users, enabling them to be more efficient, effective and deliver a great customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Support initiatives to deliver safe, reliable, and competitive operations of our clients manufacturing assets
• Work closely with process, mechanical and automation engineers to solve complex problems by applying data science methodologies like machine learning, statistical algorithms and optimization
• Design and build explorative, predictive or prescriptive models, utilizing optimization, simulation and machine learning techniques
• Collaborate with data architects and data developers to build scalable data pipelines and deploy models from development to production environment on edge or in the cloud
• Ensure timely analysis and testing for regular maintenance of solutions over time
• Translate business requirements into technical prototypes and solutions
• Communicate the design, functionality and output of the analytical models/solutions developed

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Graduate Degree in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, or a similar technical discipline
• 0-5 years of experience in statistics and machine learning, which may include work with time series, images and text data processing
• Proficiency in Python and related data science libraries (e.g., pandas, scikit-learn, etc.)
• Experience executing projects, both working independently and as part of a cross-functional team
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Openness to learning
• A safety-minded individual actively contributing to a safe working environment

The Following Would Be Considered an Asset:

• Engineering knowledge especially in the process and petrochemical industry
• Experience in deploying models in a production environment (particularly using cloud platforms such as Azure Databricks)
• Experience with building LLM applications (e.g., few-shot prompting, RAG, and vector search for tasks like text generation and retrieval)

What We Offer

Why work with Brunel? We are proud to offer exciting career opportunities from over 100 offices globally in 42 countries. Advancing your career takes time and effort – let us match you to your ideal position.

About Us

Brunel has a reputation for working with some of the best in the business. That’s what we continually strive for. Brunel provides the global recruitment and workforce services you need to lead your industry. With 45 years of market experience in Renewable Energy, Automotive, Oil & Gas, Life Sciences, Mining and Infrastructure, we help you finish major projects safely, compliantly, on-time, within budget and at the highest quality, so you can keep growing – anywhere in the world.