Position Snapshot

Location: Global IT HUB Barcelona (Esplugues de Llobregat)
Company: Nestle
Full-time position
Grade: H

About IT at Nestlé

We are a multicultural and diverse team of IT professionals driving the biggest IT operations landscape of the FMCG industry, and a Digital Transformation at scale. We work with leading technologies and top external partners to provide solutions to enable Nestlé to engage with millions of consumers and customers worldwide. We look for people who are curious, courageous , innovative, collaborative and passionate about new technologies. We want to hear from candidates who have the courage to challenge ; who believe the only way of moving forward is by doing and who look for solutions to improve the lives of our consumers through responsible use of technology.

Our Global IT Innovation Team is in a mission to unlock tech-powered innovation enabling new business models and continuously future-ready IT products. We focus on solving problems that matter, in a different way. In other words, we help tackle challenges and opportunities that, if solved with a drastic different approach, have a drastic increase in the generated outcome. We are at the forefront of new transversal emerging technologies such as Next AI, Blockchain Implications (Web3, NFT..), Next VR/Metaverse, Distributed Data lakes, Quantum Computing. We help innovate with impact and we never settle!

To strengthen our IS/IT Innovation group, we are looking for a Data Scientist AI, position that will be called “IT Technology Specialist – AI” internally, to complete our Transversal Emerging Technologies team.

 

Position Summary

If you are an expert in applying advanced analytics to solve real problems. You are hands on in your ability to build models, but you are also comfortable coaching less experienced team members in how to solve problems or managing agencies to deliver where needed. If you know that having a great model isn’t enough, you love to derive the “so what” from you models and tell compelling stories which inspire action and drive growth.  If you can research in the frontier of the advanced analytics area and you love to try-by-yourself if needed. Then, you need to apply for working on Transversal Emerging Technologies in the Global IT Innovation team!

Your mission will be to support the exploration, understanding, validation and recommendation of the emerging IT Technologies (AI, Blockchain, Metaverse, …) that will impact to Nestlé during the next years. In your case, mainly the Next AI techniques (Reinforcement Learning, Edge AI, Responsible AI, Causal Inference). This will give you a unique opportunity to gain a global perspective on this adoption process in IT that will help you to educate, coach and share knowledge on how to apply this technology across Nestlé.

A day in the life of...

• You’ll be responsible for using advanced analytics to solve real problems but using nonstandard techniques
• You will research in the current state-of-the-art techniques, libraries and platforms that could impact to Nestlé during the next years
• As a member of the IT Innovation team, you will coach other people and stakeholders in the adoption of this emerging technologies
• You will lease with technological partners to understand where they are working (and why)
• You will test new platforms, libraries, languages, or devices to be sure that they fit the requirements to solve the problem

What will make you successful

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• Be educated to MSc level (or equivalent) in Math, Statistics, Physics or Data Science.
• +3 years of experience in similar positions.
• Have proven experience on MLOps and deploy ML models in production
• Experience with Machine Learning modeling, mainly in Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning mastering is a must.
• Have the ability to network and influence at senior levels both internally and externally.
• Be able to interpret data and explain business performance in an easy-to-understand way that tells a story to key stakeholders.
• Have proven experience of working in a matrix environment; achieving results through effective influencing and collaboration.
• Have advanced Python, PyTorch (or similar) experience. Nice to have a good understanding of PySpark, Reinforcement Learning libraries (rllib on ray) and/or Causal Inference.
• Experience in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Watson and/or GCP)

Benefits

• An attractive and dynamic international working environment with the most talented and engaged IT professionals in their field and working with best-in class technologies
• Be yourself @Nestlé, everyone else is taken! Our values are rooted in respect, we champion diversity and inclusion, and believe on the power of diversity to build winning teams where everyone can be the best version of themselves  
• Personal and professional growth through ongoing training and constant career opportunities reflecting our conviction that people are our most important asset
• Great benefits including competitive salary and a comprehensive social benefits package
• Hybrid working environment with flexible working scheme, allowing everyone to meet their needs enjoying the advantages of remote work and combining with the amazing Nestlé facilities (dog friendly!) and culture
   

If you want to work in an international multi-discipline team, believe you have the right profile and you are looking for a development opportunity apply now in English on our career website www.nestle.com/jobs