Data Scientist

About us:

At Cognira, we strongly believe that people are the biggest asset of our company. Our hand-picked team consists of passionate, collaborative, and forward-thinking individuals from all over the globe. We are passionate about making science easy and accessible to retailers, helping them get more value from people, data, and systems. We bring together expertise in retail, science, and scalable technologies to automate and enhance the quality of decision-making through software and consulting services.

Our Locations:

• Atlanta, GA, US ( Where this role is!)


• Tunis, Tunisia


• Istanbul, Turkey


• Paris, France


• Porto, Portugal

Our values:

• Be nice and trustworthy


• Put our customers first


• Succeed together


• Never stop improving

Are you ready to grow with us? To find out more about Cognira, please visit our website at

About this role:

The Data Scientist serves as a trusted professional that is experienced in problem-solving with real-world customer data and working with clients. At Cognira this role is expected to participate in design and implementation of client projects, as well as drive the development of general models used in forecasting. Much of the scientist’s time is focused on feature set creation, incorporating new effects into models, training forecast models, performing forecast accuracy assessments, and interacting with other teams to support business use cases. This position works under the supervision and direction of senior data scientists.

What you will do:

• You will help us apply a wide range of statistical and quantitative analysis in practical and valuable ways


• You will be processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis


• You will be selecting features and implementing forecast solutions using Cognira’s forecasting platform


• You will participate in design workshops and document business requirements and constraints


• You will perform detailed data analysis to validate that it conforms to expectations


• You will conduct tuning analysis to support development and configuration decisions


• You will create and maintain rich interactive visualizations through data interpretation and analysis integrating various reporting components from multiple data sources


• You will program and write maintainable and well-documented scripts/applications for process automation


• You will develop new machine learning models and capabilities to capture real-world effects in sales predictions


• You will learn and work with subject matter experts from other teams and business representatives from our clients.

What you bring to the table:

• Excellent academics in computer science, engineering, physics, math, statistics or a related field


• Experience with Python preferred, must have experience in at least one common data science technology used at Cognira (Jupyter, Databricks, NumPy, Pandas, PySpark)


• Strong problem solving and analytical skills including mining, evaluation, analysis, and visualization


• PySpark/SQL or Excel skills with the ability to learn other analytic tools


• Ability to take on responsibilities and work with minimal supervision


• Ability to work on multiple projects


• Ability to create and maintain outstanding partner relationships


• Strong technical aptitude


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including reports and presentations


• A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques

Even better if:

• You have a collaborative attitude, willingness to share and use best ideas


• You are persistent, focused, self-sufficient and optimistic


• You have past retail experience


• You have experience working in a distributed development environment leveraging git and Jira


• You have experience working in scaled data environment leveraging Spark and Kubernetes


• You have experience working in a Linux environment


• You have a Masters or Ph.D. degree

Our Recruitment Process:

We typically have three rounds of interviews, plus a final meeting with our CEO. The first interview is with people in Cognira who are currently junior data scientists. Between the first and second interviews, we give you a data science problem. This is a simplified data set from which we ask you to estimate the strength of different promotional effects. That will be evaluated during the second interview with senior data scientists. Our third interview is with folks outside the science group to get a feel for the wider culture at Cognira and cross-team interactions.

What we offer: (US)

• In addition to joining us on our journey to build state-of-the-art, AI-enabled software, you’ll also get a ton of perks!


• Competitive salary, benefits, and equity stock plans for all employees


• The week between Christmas and New Year's Day as holidays


• Great medical insurance & 401K with matching


• On Wednesdays, we have free lunches, and our office building has a complimentary gym with free classes from yoga to kickboxing. We also have a game room so we have the occasional table tennis competition or a game of shuffleboard.


• Work-Life Balance: 21 paid time off, major national holidays in the US


• 20 days of Work From Anywhere flexibility every year. We’d like to ensure you have the time and flexibility to recharge and spend time with your loved ones.


• Casual dress code, free snacks, drinks, and social events!


• Mentorship Program, where you can be a mentor or a mentee.


• Referral Program Bonus


• A cool welcome pack with laptop & all necessary IT kit for work