Senior Data Scientist H/F Hilti France

From Data to Decisions.

At Hilti, we drive innovation and accelerate the development of AI solutions to make a measurable impact for our customers in the global construction industry. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will work on high-impact AI use cases across marketing, sales, and digital platforms. developing and delivering end-to-end AI solutions that create measurable business impact. You will combine strong hands-on technical depth (ML + GenAI) with clear ownership of delivery: shaping solution design, aligning stakeholders, ensuring engineering quality, and translating results into actions that scale.

What You'll do

• Understand and translate business and customer needs into data products that improve digital net sales, productivity, and customer experience.
• Define success metrics and evaluation approaches; connect model outcomes to business decisions and measurable impact.
• Analyze and understand data from multiple sources; design pragmatic data transformations and contribute to automated ETL/ELT processes in partnership with data engineering.
• Apply critical thinking and state-of-the-art research to build robust solutions with measurable business value.
• Design and implement end-to-end Data Science solutions using machine learning, statistical methods, and GenAI approaches (including agentic/multi-agent patterns where relevant).
• Select appropriate modeling approaches, features, and evaluation strategies; iterate quickly while maintaining strong engineering practices.
• Partner closely with other Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Data Architects, and developers to integrate models into production workflows and digital journeys.
• Participated in the project planning, scope, and execution trade-offs; align timelines, dependencies, and milestones with stakeholders.
• Drive technical design decisions and document them; proactively identify risks and escalate early to keep delivery on track.
• Champion quality standards (testing, code review, documentation, monitoring principles) to ensure robust solutions that provide continuous value.
• Coach, mentor and leading other team members through pairing, feedback, and knowledge sharing; strengthen team methodology and craftsmanship.
• Thrive in an agile environment and adapt quickly to evolving business needs and fast-moving AI technologies.
• Work with global cross-functional journey teams to support refinements, journey mapping inputs, and documentation where it directly accelerates delivery and adoption.
• Influence across marketing, sales, and digital platform stakeholders to maximize adoption and ensure solutions solve the right problems.

What You'll Bring

• Master's degree or PhD in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Mathematics, or related scientific fields).
• 6+ years of full-time experience as a Data Scientist, ML Engineer, or AI Engineer.
• Proven hands-on experience in Machine Learning, GenAI, multi-agent frameworks, and writing production pipelines; strong curiosity and passion for the field.
• Strong Python proficiency and software engineering fundamentals.
• Excellent problem-solving, attention to detail, and ability to collaborate in cross-functional teams with diverse stakeholders and goals.
• Strong communication skills in English to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Familiarity with resource allocation, planning cycles, and articulating trade-offs between cost and benefits.
• Experience leading and mentoring other team members in previous positions is a plus.

What's In It for You

Joining Hilti Digital & Marketing Services (HDMS) means becoming part of a modern, peoplecentered workplace with benefits designed to help you thrive both professionally and personally, a truly international environment that values diverse perspectives, fuels innovation, and encourages crosscultural collaboration, supportive, closeknit leadership offering clarity, coaching, and meaningful involvement in decisionmaking, challenging responsibilities that strike the right balance between autonomy and teamwork, ownership of your career, giving you the freedom and support to shape your own development path, and also:

• Hybrid working model, with the option to work from home up to 50% of the time.
• Comprehensive health insurance fully covered for you and your family.
• Competitive pension scheme to support long term financial security.
• Annual Solidarity Day, allowing you to volunteer for social causes that matter to you.
• On site crèche facility (subject to availability) to support employees with young children.
• Legal assistance program (EKIE) providing guidance on various legal and administrative matters.

Why Hilti

Hilti is a global leader in construction innovation, with more than 34,000 team members across 120 countries. Guided by our purpose, Making Construction Better, we're driven to keep learning, growing, and finding new ways to make a lasting impact. Here, you'll be empowered to use your strengths, work with a global and inclusive team, and take on meaningful challenges. At Hilti, you'll have the chance to make your ideas, achievements, and growth real through purpose, passion, and teamwork.

Commitment to Inclusion

At Hilti, inclusion is a key focus in how we work, lead, and grow together. We are committed to embracing diversity of thought and creating an environment that is inclusive of everyone, everywhere. We continuously strive to ensure every voice is valued and every team member feels empowered to contribute. By building on this foundation, we strengthen our teams, our innovation, and our impact, making construction better together.

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