Medior / Senior Data Scientist

About Waving and us

Waving is a rapidly growing and strongly funded deep tech startup that redefines the

security industry by protecting lives and buildings with an invisible security layer. Using our in-house created AI and Wi-Fi waves we detect human movement in ways not possible until now and use it to protect the world's critical infrastructure. With unusually strong commercial traction across some of the world's biggest airports, ports and government organisations we have innovation partners to develop our technology to scale and we're looking for a Senior Data Scientist to lead Waving's data pipeline. You'll be joining an amazing, talented and fun team that's moving and growing fast and where you'll be making a real impact, shaping the security of tomorrow.

About the role we're looking for

We're looking for a full-time Medior / Senior Data Scientist in Amsterdam to own Waving’s data handling end-to-end, building robust services that perform in protecting critical infrastructure in real-world settings. Working hands-on with real-world sensing data, build and validate detection models, and help translate experiments into reliable performance in operational environments such as security control rooms - prioritising what matters and driving execution in data science. This is a highly pivotal role, side-by-side with our CTO, Senior Backend Engineer and Senior Product Manager to turn our current PoCs into Waving's near-future highly scalable product: solving real customer problems and delivering real customer value.

What we can offer you

• Being part of an amazing, talented and fun team that's here to make a real impact together
• Being part of a fast-growing and well-funded start-up, using incredibly cool tech to protect the world's critical infrastructure in times when it's needed more than ever
• The opportunity to own and shape end-to-end data handling and shape the company's products
• A fun and fast work culture that's based on trust, freedom and ownership
• A generous salary package
• Equity compensation, stock options on Waving's shares

Who we're looking for

• Proven experience in working with RF signals, signal processing (time-series, filtering, FFT, feature extraction) and wireless communication
• Proven experience in driving data science, analyzing and cleaning large-scale sensing datasets, creating repeatable pipelines
• 3+ years professional experience using machine learning and data analysis tools.
• 3+ years professional experience with Python
• At least a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Physics
• Experience in designing experiments and evaluation methodologies, defining metrics, and reporting results with documentation
• Develop, test, and improve models for detection and classification, working closely with engineering to deploy models and iterate based on field performance
• Build lightweight tooling to visualize data, debug edge cases, and accelerate iteration
• Nice to haves: experience working in a cloud environment. Experience in the security or technology sector is a valuable asset