Data Scientist

DATA SCIENTIST / AI ENGINEER / MLOPS ENGINEERAI INFUSED. THE FUTURE IS BUILT, NOT JUST IMAGINED.Location: Kraków, PolandWHY JOIN CAPCO?You’ll join an environment where AI meets real-world transformation.At Capco, you can work with talented people across engineering, data, architecture, and financial services while solving challenging problems for leading organizations.You’ll have the opportunity to experiment, build, scale, and influence how AI is applied in practice — whether your passion is creating intelligent models, engineering AI products, or building the platforms that make AI reliable at scale.If you see yourself as a Data Scientist, AI Engineer, MLOps Engineer — or somewhere at the intersection of all three — we want to hear from you.ABOUT USAt Capco Poland, we’re not just another consultancy — we’re helping shape the future of financial services through technology, data, and AI.As a global technology and management consultancy, we partner with leading organizations across banking, payments, capital markets, wealth, and asset management, helping them solve complex challenges and turn ambitious ideas into real-world solutions.Our culture is fast-moving, flexible, collaborative, and entrepreneurial. We encourage people to challenge the status quo, experiment with new technologies, and take ownership of what they build.As we continue to scale our AI capabilities, we’re looking for talented professionals across Data Science, AI Engineering, and MLOps who want to design, build, and operationalize the next generation of intelligent solutions.You don’t need to fit neatly into one box. Whether your strengths lie in developing models, engineering AI applications, or building the platforms that bring AI into production, we’d like to hear from you.HOW YOU WILL MAKE MAGIC HAPPENDepending on your experience and area of expertise, you will have the opportunity to:Design, develop, and productionize innovative AI and machine learning solutions addressing real business challenges.Explore and implement modern approaches across Machine Learning, Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and intelligent automation.Build robust AI applications and services using Python, APIs, microservices, and cloud-native technologies.Develop reusable AI/ML libraries, frameworks, components, and common assets that accelerate AI adoption at scale.Design and maintain ML and AI pipelines, supporting the full lifecycle from experimentation and training to deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.Build scalable, resilient, secure, and maintainable systems capable of supporting production-grade AI workloads.Apply modern MLOps, DevOps, and software engineering practices to AI solutions.Work with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, model registries, monitoring, and automation tooling.Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, architects, business stakeholders, and client teams to turn ideas and prototypes into reliable solutions.Help define and promote engineering standards, architectural principles, reusable patterns, and best practices for AI development.Stay close to emerging AI technologies and evaluate where they can create meaningful value for our clients.WHAT MAKES YOU AWESOMEWe’re interested in different AI profiles, so we don’t expect every candidate to have experience in everything listed below.We’re looking for people who bring a strong combination of skills across one or more of these areas:Data Science & Machine LearningPractical experience developing and evaluating machine learning, statistical, or AI models.Strong Python skills and experience with the modern data science and ML ecosystem.Understanding of model development, experimentation, feature engineering, validation, and performance evaluation.Experience taking ML solutions beyond experimentation and into real-world applications is highly valued.AI EngineeringStrong Python and software engineering skills, including clean code, testing, design patterns, and architectural principles.Experience building AI-powered applications, services, or platforms.Knowledge of API design, microservices, distributed systems, or cloud-native application development.Hands-on exposure to Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, agents, or related AI architectures and frameworks is a strong advantage.MLOps & AI PlatformsExperience building or operating ML/AI infrastructure and production pipelines.Practical knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.Experience with CI/CD, automation, model deployment, monitoring, observability, or model lifecycle management.Understanding of scalable, reliable, and secure production environments for ML and AI workloads.WHAT WE VALUE ACROSS ALL PROFILESAround 4+ years of professional experience in software engineering, data science, machine learning, MLOps, AI engineering, or a closely related area.A university degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or another relevant discipline — or equivalent practical experience.Strong problem-solving skills and an engineering mindset.Understanding of good software engineering and application design practices.Ability to work effectively in an Agile, collaborative environment.Curiosity and a strong desire to keep learning as AI technologies and engineering practices evolve.Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly and collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.Experience within banking, financial services, or another highly regulated industry is particularly welcome.GREAT IF YOU ALSO HAVEAny of the following would be an advantage, but they are not required for every profile:Hands-on experience with frameworks and platforms such as LangChain, Haystack, Kubeflow, or comparable technologies.Experience designing LLM/RAG architectures, vector search, embeddings, AI agents, or GenAI applications.Experience with one or more major cloud platforms and cloud-native AI/ML services.Experience designing and developing microservices architectures.Familiarity with established MLOps frameworks and ML lifecycle best practices.Experience deploying and operating applications or ML workloads on Kubernetes.Knowledge of DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, and production monitoring.Experience working with enterprise-scale data and AI environments.ONLINE RECRUITMENT PROCESS*Screening call with the Recruiter → Capco Hiring Manager Interview → Client Interview → Feedback / OfferThe exact recruitment process may vary depending on the role and project.