Ciklum is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our team full-time in India.
We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.
About the role:
As a Senior Data Scientist, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.
Responsibilities:
Apply evaluation-driven development practices across all modeling work: define success criteria before building, and validate against them throughout the lifecycle
Select the appropriate modeling approach for the problem at hand — statistical modeling, classical ML, optimization, simulation, or GenAI — based on data characteristics, interpretability needs, and business context, rather than defaulting to a single technique
Define evaluation metrics that map directly to business and process outcomes (e.g.,



cost savings, cycle-time reduction, forecast accuracy, decision quality), not just model-centric metrics (accuracy, F1, RMSE) in isolation
Use a combination of synthetic data, historical data, and real-world validation to test model performance, robustness, and edge-case behavior before and after deployment
Demonstrate and document measurable improvements in decisions, processes, or outcomes as a required part of every delivery — not an afterthought
Own delivery of assigned workstreams within 45-day versioned agile release cycles, ensuring each release ships incremental, measurable value to stakeholders
Collaborate with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to translate business problems into well-scoped modeling and analytics initiatives.
Maintain transparent versioning, documentation, and change logs across release cycles to support traceability and reproducibility
Build and deliver AI/ML pla

📌 Senior Data Scientist (India)
🏢 Ciklum
📍 India