Senior Data Scientist (Brussels, Leuven or Ghent)

Sirris is looking for a Senior Data Scientist for the Data & AI for Industry team. This position, offers the opportunity to work on a variety of topics as part of collaborative and multidisciplinary R&D projects to help companies realize AI and data-driven innovations. You take the lead in industrially driven application-oriented research projects in the field of data innovation and AI, supervising small project teams and coaching colleagues. You collaborate with our industrial and research partners to develop data-driven solutions to real-world problems in many diverse application domains such as renewable energy, digital industry, mobility, safety and security, etc. This includes supporting companies in defining, setting up and evaluating their research and innovation roadmap, while being closely involved in the subsequent project implementation. You build an (inter)national knowledge network within the industry, the research community and with Sirris' partners, and manage (inter)national multi-party R&D projects in the field of data innovation and AI. You shape, discuss and write new project proposals with companies and research partners. You build knowledge about the latest technological developments in research and industry and contribute to the organization of dissemination events towards companies to spread those insights to the industry. As an AI ambassador, you facilitate cross-domain internal collaboration with our experts from other technology disciplines with the goal of adopting AI expertise into those teams. In addition, there is always an interesting challenge ahead!