Senior Data Scientist

Number of employees

1200

Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Posted on: 2026-09-16

Category: energy

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Senior

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Verkor is a French industrial company founded in 2020 that specializes in the production of low-carbon lithium-ion battery cells for electric mobility and energy storage applications. The company is headquartered in Grenoble and has developed its first Gigafactory in Bourbourg, near Dunkirk, which was officially inaugurated in December 2025 under the patronage of French President Emmanuel Macron. With an initial production capacity of 16 GWh per year, the facility represents a major step toward large-scale industrial battery manufacturing in Europe. Verkor's core mission is to produce low-carbon batteries in Europe while contributing to industrial sovereignty and decarbonization. The company positions itself as a key player in the European energy transition, addressing the dual challenge of reducing dependence on non-European battery supply chains and accelerating the shift to electric mobility. Its Gigafactory is expected to create 1,200 direct jobs and approximately 3,000 indirect jobs in the region. What sets Verkor apart is its 'digital by design' industrial model, which integrates digital technologies throughout its manufacturing processes to optimize ramp-up speed and production efficiency. The company has progressed rapidly through commissioning and line balancing phases, moving toward full-scale serial production. Backed by prominent industrial and financial partners, Verkor is establishing itself as a fully-fledged European battery manufacturer in a strategically critical sector.

Verkor is a French industrial company aiming to pioneer low-carbon battery manufacturing in France. With the backing of prominent industrial companies such as Renault Group, Plastic Omnium and Schneider Electric, Verkor intends to electrify the future of European mobility.
 
With over 1100 experts from 53 different countries, our endeavor is to unite exceptional global talent to bring this ambitious and innovative project to life. Our strong and agile international team continues to grow and adapt to new challenges. Based in Grenoble and Dunkirk (France), we have started operations our Verkor Innovation Centre (R&D centre and 4.0 pilot line) which is now fully running and operational.
 
We now focus on enabling  the successful start of production of our Gigafactory in Dunkirk (France). With this facility, our ambition is to ramp-up mass production of low carbon lithium ion batteries to facilitate the decarbonization of European mobility.  
 

The senior data scientist is responsible for turning data into insights, predictions and decision-support models that help the business reduce uncertainty, improve performance and scale decision making.  As senior, he/she is responsible to derive KPI’s aligned to business strategy, focus on translating the business problems, into analytical questions and build data driven solutions. 

Why join us?
 
Strong company spirit and culture settle down around our 4 values:
Contribution
We promote personal initiative and give everyone the means to contribute to the company's success.
Communication
We're committed to transparent communication: we say what we think, and we mean what we say.
Team Spirit
Everyone, in their role, is an ambassador for the company. At Verkor, success is most definitely a team sport!
Commitment
We're all working towards a common goal: a sustainable future, which we're building one step at a time.
 
 
Attractive work conditions*
- Stimulating work environment: pleasant offices, multicultural and motivated team
- Lunch vouchers
- 50% of local transportation costs financed
- Industry-leading healthcare
- Opportunities to network and connect with worldwide experts
 
For more info on the company, please visit us at www.verkor.com
*all positions are open to individuals possessing a Recognition of the Status of Disabled Worker (RQTH)

Main Responsibilities :

  • Turns business questions into analytical and data science problems 

  • Defines success metrics and evaluation criteria aligned with business outcomes  

  • Analyze and explore structures and unstructured data to identify patterns, trends and anomalies 

  • Build production grade automation workflows 

  • Assess data quality, completeness, bias and limitations 

  • Identify additional data sources needed to improve analysis or models 

  • Perform data transformation for modelling purposes  

  • Model development and validation 

  • Interpret model results and analytical findings in business terms 

  • Communicate findings clearly to non-technical stakeholders 

  • Document assumptions, limitations and risks of the model 

  • Works with operators and production/quality technicians to understand objectives, constraints and decision needs

  • Work with data engineers /Digital team to operationalize data preparation when needed.

  • Works with data scientists and CAE experts to understand the value of the project and how it links with the roadmap.   

Prerequisites :

  • 8 - 11 yrs of Experience  

  • Masters or PhD in Data science/ Applied mathematics/Statistics 

  • Experience working with large-scale data sets in an industrial environment 

  • Strong fundamentals of linear algebra, Calculus, probability and statistics. 

  • Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts, data partitioning and parallel processing 

  • Hand-on experience using databricks for data exploration, analysis, feature engineering and model training 

  • Strong proficiency in Apache spark (dataframes, SQL, ML lib concepts), for large scale data processing,  with hands-on experience in distributed model training using Pytorch or tensor flow.  

  • Databricks notebooks (Python/SQL) 

  • Experience in Knowledge Graph a plus 

  • Strong proficiency in pandas and numpy for exploration, feature engineering and analytical workflows 

  • English & French are both mandatory 

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