Specialist AI (f/m/d)

About Umicore

Powering the cars of the future. Reducing harmful emissions. Giving unique properties to high-end applications. Giving new life to used metals. We are the leading circular materials technology company fulfilling its mission to create materials for a better life.

About Corporate Research & Development

Driving progress through research. Providing material solutions for the world’s most pressing challenges and anticipating the needs of our customers requires a high level of investment in research. Umicore’s Group Research capabilities focus on new materials and processes to address the megatrends of resource scarcity and clean mobility. The nature of research and development means that we cannot stand still. We need to find new ways to do things, discover new solutions and develop new ideas. Which is where you come in.

What you will be doing

• Analyze and understand business context
• Align with domain experts to understand the available datasets
• Connect data from different sources in a curated dataset
• data quality: cleaning, filtering and normalisation of data such that they are trustworthy for further modelling
• exploratory data analysis (application of techniques such as PCA, SHAP analysis, cross correlation analysis)
• applying standard AI/ML techniques independently or putting more advanced techniques – suggested by data scientists – into code
• applying different techniques on how to statistically evaluate the performance of intermediate or final AI models on a given objective
• visualizing results in PowerBI

Who we are looking for

• You have a Bachelors degree of Science in Engineering or Informatics (IT)
• You have professional experience in working with AI and data 
• Coding: Python is a must
• experience in data engineering, data exploration & AI model creation
• knowlededge of DataBricks & Azure are a plus

We aim to lead the way. Not just for our customers, but for our employees too. That is why we strive to create a collaborative environment in which we can all succeed, and a culture through which we can all share ideas, develop our expertise and advance our careers. We engage in building an inclusive work culture that offers equal opportunities for all employees irrespective of their diverse backgrounds. As you would expect from a world-leading organisation, we will also reward your contribution with a competitive salary and benefits. With all this and more, imagine what you could do?

IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD DO?