Data Scientist – Warsaw

Job description

QED ( https://qed.ai ) is a tech company focused on public health and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. We build the digital infrastructure and AI used at the intersection of aid and scientific inquiry, including in-situ nutrient analysis of crops and soils and foods, and surveillance of HIV and malaria at national-scale in multiple African countries. Our funding comes from philanthropic and governmental organizations, such as the Gates Foundation, the Polish Ministry of Agriculture, EU funding programmes, the Global Fund, and others. We are looking for a Data Scientist to join our team in Warsaw, Poland working on ScanSpectrum ( https://scanspectrum.qed.ai ), a low-cost and handheld spectrophotometry kit being used to assess quality parameters of food and agricultural products. Scope of Work: Build and improve regression models for spectroscopic data (e.g., PLSR, SVR, Extra Trees) Plan sampling strategies and real-world experimental design with a strong statistical mindset (representativeness, power, coverage across varieties/regions/seasons/batches). Design robust training/evaluation pipelines: preprocessing, feature engineering, hyperparameter tuning, and proper cross-validat...