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Junior Data Scientist
Zara Patel
Full-time · Junior · Sydney
About the role
Right, let's be upfront about a few things. We're a 30-person startup in Sydney building predictive analytics for the hospitality sector — think demand forecasting for restaurants, staffing models for hotels, waste reduction for catering companies. The data is sometimes weird. The clients don't always give us clean exports. Some of our dashboards still live in Excel because the client's ops manager refuses to change. That's the reality, and we're not going to pretend otherwise in a job ad. What we are is genuinely good at what we do, growing fast, and looking for a junior data scientist who actually enjoys the messy early stages of an analytics problem — cleaning data, asking dumb questions that turn out to be important, and building something simple that actually gets used. You'll work closely with two senior data scientists who are invested in your growth. We do regular code reviews, we pair program a few hours a week, and we celebrate wins properly. If that sounds like a good place to learn, we'd like to hear from you.
Responsibilities
- Clean, explore, and validate data from client systems including POS exports, booking platforms, and spreadsheets
- Build and evaluate predictive models for demand forecasting with senior guidance
- Create clear visualisations and data summaries for client-facing reports
- Document your analysis so the team can reproduce it and build on it
- Participate in sprint planning and weekly retrospectives
Requirements
- Solid Python for data work — Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib at a minimum
- SQL you can actually write from scratch: joins, aggregations, window functions
- Basic statistics you understand rather than just apply — confidence intervals, correlation vs causation, overfitting
- Scikit-learn for model training and evaluation
- Curiosity about messy real-world data and patience when things don't go to plan
- Any personal project, university capstone, or bootcamp work involving real data is very welcome
Benefits
- Genuine mentorship — pair programming, code reviews, regular growth check-ins
- Full remote within AEST ±3 hours
- AUD $68,000 – $84,000 base salary
- $700 annual learning budget
- Flexible hours — we care about output, not when you log in
Job Type
Full-time
Level
Junior
Language
English
Salary Range
AUD $68,000 – $84,000
AI Expertise
data science & analytics
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