Junior Data Scientist - AI & Machine Learning

Are you curious and ready to accept a new challenge in your career? Are you eager to join a dynamic company and bring innovation through your work and skills?

Prometeia offers you opportunities for growth and training in a Group with over 1000 professionals working for more than 500 clients in 20 countries around the world.

Among the European leaders in Enterprise Risk Management and Wealth & Asset Management solutions, Prometeia is looking for a motivated and curious part-time junior data scientist to join our AI & Machine Learning team in Istanbul. The ideal candidate is passionate about learning how to use data to solve real-world problems in the finance domain. This role is designed for someone at the beginning of their data science career who wants to gain hands-on experience, make tangible contributions, and continue to grow their technical and analytical skills.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support senior data scientists in the development of AI and machine learning models.
• Assist with data collection, cleaning, and exploration tasks.
• Contribute to feature engineering and model training using Python-based tools.
• Participate in testing and validating models under the guidance of senior team members.
• Conduct exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, and selection to enhance model performance.
• Participation in the preparation/review of simple prototypes/analytic components within more complex pipelines.
• Contribute to data labeling and annotation tasks, especially for text and language-based (NLP) datasets.
• Take part in research and experimentation to explore new data science methods and tools.
• Preparing and delivering technical presentations to clients and stakeholders to explain machine learning models, project outcomes, and analytical insights.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Currently a junior or senior undergraduate student, or enrolled in a Master’s program in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
• Knowledge of statistics, Machine Learning, and major clustering, classification, and regression algorithms.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and SQL.
• Familiarity with Python libraries and tools for Machine Learning (numpy/pandas, scikit-learn) and scientific computing.
• Eagerness to learn and contribute in a team-oriented environment and attention to detail.
• Good communication and presentation skills in English.

NICE TO HAVE:

• Experience with code versioning systems (git).
• Experience in data wrangling, cleaning, exploration, and feature extraction.
• Experience in consulting or working with clients is a plus.
• Experience in financial institutions is a plus.

LOCATION:

Istanbul

WHAT WE OFFER:

REMOTE WORKING

Flexibility is an intrinsic value of our way of working. In Prometeia, remote working is an organizational method based on trust. It results in benefits in terms of work/life balance, impact on the environment and optimization of company results through autonomy and empowerment of people.

TRAINING

Prometeia means continuous training. We provide an average of 11 days of training per year to our people, in person and online. We pay specific attention to younger colleagues, the protagonists of dedicated growth programs, and to the continuous sharing and internal transfer of know-how and skills. On-the-job training is also important and is made of immediate and direct confrontation with the market.

COMMUNITY

Our Community is highly diverse, as are the skills of the people who are part of it and who share its values, and the individuals and organizations directly or indirectly involved in our activities. Clients, People of the Group, Alumni, Institutions, Academia, non-profit entities we actively cooperate with are stakeholders representing a great value for us in terms of trust and collaboration.

DIVERSITY

We promote and respect equal opportunities and consider differences as a value. Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental values: from the recruitment phase to everyday life, promoted also through dedicated training moments to develop individual sensitivities and uniqueness.

IMPACT

We responsibly take an active role towards the environment, territories and communities we operate in. Our Headquarter in Bologna has obtained the Leed Gold Certification, one of the highest awards recognizing the efficiency of the building in terms of energy and water savings, CO2 emissions reduction, and improvement of the ecological quality of interiors, materials and resources. In the Sustainability Report we outline the results achieved within the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda drafted by the UN in 2016, that we have been supporting since 2020.