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# Senior/Principal Data Scientist

- **Company:** Stenon GmbH
- **Location:** Potsdam, Germany (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Software Quality, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Data Processing, Pytorch, Model Validation, Scikit Learn, Machine Learning Operations, Docker
- **Published:** October 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-principal-data-scientist-m-f-d-stenon-gmbh-10625722

## About the Role

* At least 5+ years of hands-on experience in Data Science products
 * Advanced Degree in Engineering or Science
 * Exceptional understanding of statistical and fundamental machine learning concepts
 * Experience writing and maintaining python code, incl. common libraries like scikit, pytorch as well as ML-Ops infrastructure like MLflow, DVC
 * High degree of autonomy
 * Ability to translate complex statistical or machine learning concepts into digestible information for non-technical audiences
 * Experience across the machine learning product lifecycle: defining success metrics, model evaluation and validation, deployment, monitoring and iteration, in collaboration with data engineers
 * A strong sense for data and code quality and the ability to push for high standards
 * High-dimensional sensor/signal data processing expertise
 * Proven track record of managing complex projects from start to finish in a fast-paced environment
 * Experience leading or mentoring team members
 * Good communication and English language skills - verbal and written

You may have

 * Experience in geo-spatial products
 * Knowledge of agronomy or agriculture, sensor/IoT data, or field trials
 * Understanding of sensor hardware, physical measurement principles and real world noise characteristics
 * ML Ops or Data Engineering knowledge, like Docker, CI/CD, AWS or GCP
Experience in experiment design and simulations

## Description

We seek a versatile and experienced Senior Data Scientist, that drives and expands our existing soil nutrient machine learning as well as new data-driven features that support our customers in making better agronomic decisions for their fields using real-time soil data.

You will

 * Be responsible for a core pillar of Stenon's products
 * Scale our soil nutrient modelling to support more and more regions across the world
 * Oversee planning, execution and delivery of Data Science projects.
 * Contribute to the Data Science strategy, vision and roadmap, enhancing Stenon's agronomy intelligence layer to support additional features and enable new data sources
 * Work with a variety of data from spectral sensor data via chemical lab analysis results to spatial fertilization maps.