Senior / Data Scientist
We are searching for a passionate Senior / Data Scientist who enjoys using data visualization, statistics, and modeling to tell stories. The ideal candidate is a curious life-long learner who takes ownership and is eager to collaborate to build better products. In this role, you will be a true data advocate and spend a significant part of your time collaborating with Northvolt colleagues across many teams. You enjoy communicating and empathizing with people in diverse professional roles, cultural backgrounds, and experience levels in data-driven approaches.
As a Senior Data Scientist, you will lead how we work with data at Northvolt Dwa, contributing directly to solving problems, lead the discovery of insights, and build a shared knowledge base. We strive to use technology and data to co-develop solutions that matter, and welcome applicants from diverse experience levels and backgrounds.
Northvolt is challenging established methods of working with manufacturing data, adopting a cloud-native and serverless approach to scale data science and analytics. See blog post and youtube videos explaining our architecture.
AWS re:Invent 2022
https://youtu.be/IRyC6QyBY58?t=1934
AWS Blog Post
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/i...
Key Responsibilities
- Creating regular Operational Analytics reports on manufacture throughput, quality, and data completeness for technical and non-technical users
- Developing solutions for tracking performance, characterizing operational patterns, and detecting anomalies in our factories
- Defining requirements (data schema, storage, user experience) and actively contributing to development of self-service data analytics tools across teams within Northvolt
- Working closely with management and engineers to identify most valuable data solutions and bringing these ideas through design to implementation and deployment
- Working closely with the Data Platform team to define requirements and new features of the Northvolt Data Platform
- Driving how we work with data across teams in the Dwa manufacturing site, and identify working models to accelerate speed to insight. Sharing knowledge and skills in data analysis and data science broadly within the organization to make every team more data-driven
Work with great people
Skills & Requirements
We believe that you are:
- Comfortable writing SQL queries
- Experienced user of Python libraries for manipulating and visualizing data (pandas and e.g. matplotlib/seaborn/bokeh)
- Comfortable using Unix-like operating systems and fundamental software engineering tooling (e.g. git version control, testing)
- Statistics, algorithms, clustering, uncertainty quantification
- Advanced in English (written and speaking)
- Independent, organized, and entrepreneurial
- Passionate team collaborator who can thrive in a diverse international environment
Additional points you will get for:
- Experience working with a cloud provider such as AWS or GCP
- Knowledgeable about different types of database technologies (RDBMS, Key-Value, Search Engines, MPP OLAP Data Warehouses, Data Lakes)
- Engineering foundation understanding (electro/mechanical/chemical/physical), preferably within the energy domain
- Manufacture industry and/or Li-ion technology experience
Great Place to Work
World leading technique
Top specialists as team peers
International environment
About the company
Northvolt is a European supplier of sustainable, high-quality battery cells and systems. Founded in 2016 to enable the European transition to a decarbonized future, Northvolt has made swift progress on its mission to deliver the world’s greenest lithium-ion battery with a minimal CO2 footprint and the highest ambitions for recycling. Among Northvolt industrial partners and customers are ABB, BMW Group, Scania, Siemens, Vattenfall, Vestas and the Volkswagen Group.
Northvolt Ett is a next generation battery cell factory focused on process innovation, scale and vertical integration. Once completed, the gigafactory will be one of the largest battery cell factory in Europe and produce at least 32 GWh of capacity annually.
Alongside Northvolt Ett, Northvolt is also establishing a manufacturing site for battery systems in Gdansk, Poland. This facility, Northvolt Battery Systems Jeden, will industrialize and produce world leading battery systems in order to meet the increased demand for complete battery solutions on the European market. The factory is a highly automated, state-of-the-art production facility for battery modules and energy storage solutions.
We are currently in an exciting fast-growing phase and operate in a dynamic environment, dealing with a wide range of stakeholders. We are staffing our international office in Stockholm, our R&D facility, Northvolt Labs in Västerås, as well as Northvolt Battery Systems Jeden, in Gdansk, for production of battery systems. We are also preparing for upcoming positions at the main factory, Northvolt Ett, in Skellefteå.
We want to work with experienced manufacturing experts as well as talented and purpose driven people from all kinds of disciplines to make this happen. Those of us already on board share a bold streak and a passion for our mission. We are prepared to work hard in pursuit of excellence. We enjoy the ride and our main drive is to make a real difference. We are a team dedicated to thinking new, working hard and having fun. Join us today!
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