Senior Statistical Data Scientist
- Role
- Data Science
- Experience
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Company size
- Startup
Open to CH only. Set where you work from to check your eligibility.
No BS summary
Seeking a Senior Statistical Data Scientist with an MSc or PhD in a quantitative field. Must have strong statistical inference, experimental design, and regression skills, with experience in Python/R. Focus on transforming biological data into actionable insights for scientific and business decisions, not just model building.
Core skills
Required skills
Required languages
What you'll do
- Collaborate with seed engineers, breeders, biologists, and data engineers
- Translate complex statistical results into clear, decision-ready insights
- Design and analyse biological and experimental datasets with statistical rigor
- Build predictive models for breeding and product development decisions
- Apply machine learning where it adds meaningful value beyond classical statistics
- Ensure experimental conclusions are robust, reproducible, and well-validated
What they require
- MSc or PhD in Statistics, Biostatistics, Applied Mathematics, Quantitative Genetics, Econometrics, or related field
- Strong grounding in statistical inference, experimental design, regression, and mixed models
- Experience with Python and/or R
- Familiarity with predictive modelling and modern machine learning approaches
- Strong communication skills and ability to simplify complex reasoning
- Curiosity for scientific problem-solving beyond standard analytics
- Improve experimental design and analytical quality
- Become a trusted scientific advisor across teams
- Deliver predictive models that influence real-world decisions
- Strengthen evidence-based decision-making across the organisation
- This is not a sponsored visa job.
- It requires trips in central Europe once a month for about 5 days.
- We are looking for people that further to their strong background they do enjoy what they do and wish to make a manageable change to the world
Benefits
- Work at the intersection of statistics, biology, and engineering in a company where scientific thinking is central to every decision.
- Be part of a strong and truly international initiative
- Get well compensated for your time while being capable to keep your morning or research arrangements
- All relevant expenses are covered by the company.
humani is the strategic HR partner with a well-funded, Switzerland-based seed engineering startup operating in stealth mode, backed by established family office investors with long-term commitment. We are building a globally distributed, fully remote team of scientists and engineers who collaborate across time zones, disciplines, and industries. Our working model is intentionally flexible: contributors may join as consultants, freelancers, or part-time collaborators while maintaining other professional commitments. As the company grows, there will be opportunities to transition into full-time roles for those who wish to deepen their involvement.