CareerPlan

Senior Data Scientist / Quantitative Analyst - Commodity Global Trade Shipping & Logistics m/f/d

Germany - KarlsruheFull-time€72k–€119k2026-10-26 → 2026-11-10

Core

Building predictive market models and interactive analytics for global commodity trade, shipping, and logistics to support trading and scenario planning.

Role type

Senior IC quantitative data scientist (commodity markets)

Builds

Forecast models, predictive data, and interactive analytical tooling for trading and scenario planning

Domain

Energy, petrochemical, and fertilizer industries; global commodity markets

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, SQL, mathematical optimization (linear programming, convex optimization), data modeling, data transformation, data visualization, software development (modularization, versioning, testing), containerization (Docker), orchestration (Airflow)

Preferred skills

Chemical industry knowledge, Databricks, Snowflake, optimization libraries (Pyomo, SciPy, Gurobi/CPLEX)

Technologies

Python, Dash, Plotly, Databricks, Snowflake, GIT, Docker, Airflow, Pyomo, SciPy, Gurobi, CPLEX

Responsibilities

Co-develop quantitative market models (demand, supply, storage, trade, transport, market balance, price forecasting); clean and impute freight, pricing, and supply/demand datasets; create interactive analytics and decision support tools; discuss models with customers and translate domain knowledge into models; productionize models and integrate new data sources; guide peers in model development

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC