Toloka is a data company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Amsterdam that supplies human-generated training, fine-tuning and evaluation data for artificial intelligence systems. It began as a large-scale crowdsourcing platform and has repositioned around expert work, combining domain specialists, machine learning tooling and quality control pipelines to produce reasoning traces, preference rankings and agentic task data. Operating within the Nebius group and backed by Bezos Expeditions since 2025, the company serves frontier model laboratories and enterprises building their own systems.
HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands • Machine Learning • Data & Analytics • Data Collection • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • 51-200 employees • Est. 2014
Remote (Europe, United States) • Freelance
Sika AG is a global specialty chemicals company headquartered in Baar, Switzerland. Founded in 1910 by Kaspar Winkler - who invented "Sika-1," a quick-setting waterproofing admixture for masonry originally used to waterproof the Gotthard railway tunnel - the company has grown into a world leader in developing and manufacturing systems and products for bonding, sealing, damping, reinforcing, and protecting in the building sector and motor vehicle industry.
HQ: Baar, Switzerland • Data & Analytics • Financial Services • Manufacturing • 5000+ employees • Est. 1910
≈ $57k – $163k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (Zurich, Switzerland) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Middle • English: C1
Python
SQL
Python
pySpark
Databases
Databricks
Google BigQuery
Microsoft Fabric
Snowflake
AI/ML
Spark
DevOps
Azure
Azure DevOps
CI/CD
GitHub
HostPapa is a Canadian hosting company founded in 2006 and headquartered in Burlington, Ontario. It provides domains, web hosting and cloud services to small businesses. The company serves customers in dozens of countries.
HQ: Burlington, Canada • Content Creation • Web Hosting • Internet Services • 51-200 employees • Est. 2006
≈ $93k – $205k per year (Estimated) • Senior • Remote (EU, Europe) • Senior • English: B2
Python
Databases
Apache Kafka
NATS
PostgreSQL
Trino
AI/ML
Flink
RAG
Anthropic
Model Context Protocol
OpenAI
DevOps
AWS
Azure
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
NVIDIA is an American technology company founded in 1993 that invented the graphics processing unit and has become the dominant supplier of accelerated computing platforms for artificial intelligence. Its portfolio spans data centre GPUs and systems built on the Hopper and Blackwell architectures, GeForce consumer graphics, automotive and robotics platforms, high-speed networking acquired with Mellanox, and the CUDA software stack that binds the ecosystem together. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company sells to cloud providers, enterprises, research institutions and gamers worldwide and is one of the most valuable listed businesses on the Nasdaq.
HQ: Santa Clara, United States • AI Infrastructure • Semiconductors • AI Agents • Big Data • LLM & Generative AI • Machine Learning • Hardware • Data & Analytics • Information Technology • Artificial Intelligence • 5000+ employees • Est. 1993
≈ $98k – $252k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 8+ years exp • Switzerland • Remote (Switzerland) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
C++
Fortran
C
Assembly
C
MPI
AI/ML
CUDA
CUDA Toolkit
OpenMP
DevOps
HPC
Tryolabs is a specialized AI and machine learning solutions company that helps companies create business value by partnering with them through their AI journey.
Data & Analytics • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2009
≈ $93k – $205k per year (Estimated) • Senior • Remote • Full-Time • Senior
Python
SQL
AI/ML
Time Series Forecasting
Analytics
A/B Testing
Blockchain Capital is one of the earliest dedicated digital asset venture firms, founded in 2013 in San Francisco. It has invested across many funds in exchanges, infrastructure, decentralised finance and consumer applications. The firm was also a pioneer of tokenised fund structures, issuing a security token to represent limited partner interests.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Blockchain & Crypto • Est. 2013
≈ $68k – $176k per year (Estimated) • Senior • Remote (EU, Europe, United Arab Emirates, South Africa) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Rust
Databases
MariaDB
MySQL
DevOps
CI/CD
GitOps
HAProxy
Kubernetes
Terraform
ArgoCD
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
GitHub
GitLab
≈ $80k – $147k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United Kingdom, Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Rust
Databases
Milvus
OpenSearch
pgvector
PostgreSQL
Qdrant
Weaviate
AI/ML
Embeddings
Hybrid Search
Recommender Systems
DevOps
CI/CD
GitOps
HAProxy
Kubernetes
Terraform
Vector
ArgoCD
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
GitHub
GitLab
SportyBet is an international sports betting, gaming, and digital entertainment platform owned by Sporty Group. Founded by Sudeep Ramnani in 2013, the platform is a market-leading sports betting operator in Africa - with operations across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania, and Uganda - and has expanded internationally into markets like Brazil.
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Gaming • Sports • iGaming & Gambling • Sports Betting • Est. 2013
Middle • 4+ years exp • Remote (LATAM, Europe) • Middle
Go
Python
Databases
MongoDB
MySQL
Amazon Aurora
Amazon DocumentDB
Amazon Redshift
ElasticSearch
PostgreSQL
RabbitMQ
DevOps
Ansible
ArgoCD
AWS
CI/CD
Helm
Jenkins
Kubernetes
SLI/SLO/SLA
Terraform
GitHub
Alertmanager
Grafana
Loki
Prometheus
≈ $65k – $160k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years exp • Remote (Europe, Asia) • Junior
Python
SQL
AI/ML
Spark
Recommender Systems
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
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Geneva • Zurich • Design & Creative • Branding • Est. 2013
$111k – $149k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Zurich • Remote (Switzerland) • Full-Time • Senior • German: C1
Python
SQL
Databases
Amazon Redshift
Apache Kafka
DevOps
AWS
AWS Lambda
Amazon S3
Ansible
Analytics
ETL/ELT
$111k – $149k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Geneva • Remote (Switzerland) • Full-Time • Senior • German: C1
Python
SQL
Databases
Amazon Redshift
Apache Kafka
DevOps
AWS
AWS Lambda
Amazon S3
Ansible
Analytics
ETL/ELT
ODAIA is developing cutting-edge predictive analytics AI platforms to facilitate improved health journeys by enhancing interactions with healthcare providers and the pharma industry.
Pharmaceuticals • Health Care • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2018
≈ $76k – $170k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Middle • 3+ years exp • Remote • Middle
Python
SQL
Databases
DynamoDB
Snowflake
AI/ML
Claude
Dagster
Together AI
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS
AWS Lambda
CI/CD
Amazon ECS
Amazon S3
API Gateway
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Marketing
Salesforce
Valtech is a global digital transformation company that combines technology, creativity, data, and strategy to help organizations grow and innovate. It delivers services in experience design, enterprise transformation, commerce, marketing, data, and artificial intelligence. Valtech works with clients across industries such as retail, finance, manufacturing, mobility, healthcare, luxury, and travel.
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Commerce • E-commerce Platforms • Information Technology • IT Consulting • Est. 1993
≈ $91k – $230k per year (Estimated) • Remote (AMER, Europe) • Internship
Python
SQL
Databases
Apache Kafka
Databricks
ElasticSearch
Google BigQuery
AI/ML
Google ADK
Hadoop
Spark
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Ascendion is a software engineering solutions company that offers engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities to accelerate the digital transformation of its 2000+ global clients.
Bengaluru • Vadodara • Hyderabad • Mumbai • Chennai • Science & Engineering • Artificial Intelligence • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2022
Remote (APAC, Europe, North America)
Python
SQL
Python
pySpark
Databases
Amazon Redshift
Google BigQuery
MongoDB
AI/ML
AI Agents
NumPy
Pandas
Spark
Mobile
JUnit
DevOps
Azure
CI/CD
Git
Amazon S3
QA
Pytest
N-iX is a global software development and IT consulting company founded in Lviv, Ukraine, in 2002. The firm partners with enterprise clients, mid-sized businesses, and tech startups to deliver custom software engineering, cloud transformation, AI and data analytics, and embedded systems solutions. Operating across multiple delivery hubs in Europe and the Americas, it focuses on helping organizations scale their engineering capabilities and accelerate digital transformation.
HQ: Lviv, Ukraine • HQ: Valletta, Malta • Data & Analytics • Artificial Intelligence • Software • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2002
$72k – $84k per year • Senior • 4+ years exp • Kraków • Remote (Europe) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
Python
SQL
Databases
SAP HANA
Snowflake
DevOps
Azure
GCP
Cybersecurity
GDPR
Overstory is a software company that helps businesses automate their processes and make better decisions. We offer a suite of products that can help you manage your workflows, track your progress, and get insights into your data. Our mission is to help businesses of all sizes unlock the power of their data and achieve their goals.
Nice • San Francisco • Earth Observation • Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • 51-200 employees
≈ $160k – $270k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 8+ years exp • Remote (United States, France, United Kingdom, Canada, Denmark) • Staff • Lithuanian (Optional) • Finnish (Optional) • Estonian (Optional) • Dutch (Optional) • Bulgarian (Optional) • Afrikaans (Optional) • Russian (Optional) • Portuguese (Optional) • Italian (Optional) • French (Optional) • Spanish (Optional) • German (Optional)
Python
AI/ML
PyTorch
Scikit-learn
XGBoost
Vertex AI
DevOps
GCP
Cybersecurity
GDPR
Nansen is a blockchain analytics company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Singapore. It labels hundreds of millions of wallet addresses so that users can follow the activity of funds, market makers and prominent traders across chains. The platform is used for token research, portfolio tracking and monitoring flows into and out of protocols.
HQ: Singapore • Est. 2019
≈ $71k – $182k per year (Estimated) • Senior • Remote (Europe, Singapore) • Visa sponsorship • Senior
Python
SQL
Databases
ClickHouse
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Claude
Claude Code
Cursor
dbt
Web3
Nansen
Kana Devianova is a professional portfolio and personal brand platform dedicated to showcasing creative design, photography, and digital media projects. The website highlights diverse work spanning visual story-telling, content creation, and artistic direction for various client applications. Through a curated display of concepts and finished works, the platform serves as a central hub for potential collaborators to explore the artist's unique style and reach out for creative opportunities.
Zurich • Gliwice • Bratislava • Milan • Bolzano • Information Technology
≈ $79k – $204k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (Zurich, Switzerland) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
SQL
Databases
Snowflake
DevOps
Azure
Analytics
ETL/ELT
≈ $58k – $167k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (Zurich, Switzerland) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior • German (Optional)
Python
SQL
Databases
Snowflake
AI/ML
Streamlit
DevOps
Azure
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Harmattan AI is a French defense technology company headquartered in Paris. Founded in 2024 by Mouad M'Ghari, the company operates as a next-generation "defense prime" specializing in vertically integrated autonomous systems, AI-enabled mission software, and scalable uncrewed platforms for modern warfare.
HQ: Paris, France • Military • Military Drones • Artificial Intelligence • Defense AI • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2024
≈ $61k – $104k per year (Estimated) • In office (Paris, France, Zurich, Lausanne, Switzerland) • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
Docplanner is a healthcare technology company headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and founded in 2012. It provides a digital platform for patients to find and book medical appointments while offering healthcare professionals practice management software, online marketing tools, and patient communication systems. The company operates in 13 countries across Europe and Latin America, including Poland, Spain, Italy, and Brazil, serving over 100 million monthly patients through brands such as Doctoralia and ZnanyLekarz.
HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) • Business Process Automation (BPA) • Software • Online Directories & Classifieds • Internet Services • Health Care • Digital Health • 201-500 employees • Est. 2012
Barcelona • Amsterdam • Warsaw • Remote (Europe) • Freelance • Spanish: C2
Novanta supplies photonics, vision and precision motion components to equipment manufacturers. Its lasers, encoders and imaging subsystems go into medical and advanced industrial machines. The company operates through a family of specialised engineering brands.
HQ: Bedford, United States • Information Technology • Data & Analytics • Health Care • 501-1000 employees • Est. 1968
$101k – $162k per year • Senior • 7+ years exp • United States • Remote (AMER, APAC, Europe) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
SQL
Databases
Amazon Redshift
Databricks
Google BigQuery
Snowflake
AI/ML
Dagster
dbt
Embeddings
LLM
RAG
AI Agents
Function Calling
DevOps
Azure
Azure DevOps
CI/CD
Git
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
GitHub
GitLab
Analytics
Power BI
We make technology valuable! Wir machen High End IT-Consulting mit leading-edge Technologien und verhelfen unseren Kunden somit auf dem Markt einen Schritt voraus zu sein. Wir bleiben nach der strategischen Beratung und setzen die Lösung (im Bereich AI + Data, Digital Experience, Cloud und Integration) gleich um. Denn wir halten, was wir versprechen.
Zurich • Bern • Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology • IT Consulting • 51-200 employees
$111k – $130k per year • Remote/Hybrid (Zurich, Switzerland) • Full-Time • Middle • German: C1
Amazon Redshift
Apache Kafka
Databricks
Google BigQuery
Snowflake
DevOps
AWS
Azure
Amazon S3
$155k – $173k per year • Senior • 6+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (Zurich, Switzerland) • Full-Time • Senior • German: C1
Amazon Redshift
Apache Kafka
Databricks
Google BigQuery
Snowflake
DevOps
AWS
Azure
Amazon S3
Analytics
Power BI
The Group of Twenty (G20) is the premier global forum for international economic cooperation, bringing together 19 countries, the European Union, and the African Union. The platform unites leaders from the world's major advanced and emerging economies to address critical global challenges, including financial stability, climate change, sustainable development, and trade. Through annual leader summits and ongoing working group meetings, it drives policy coordination to foster resilient and inclusive global economic growth.
Zurich • New York • London • Financial Services • Government
≈ $67k – $170k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 4+ years exp • In office (Zurich, Switzerland) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Middle
Python
Cybersecurity
Volatility
Salary range
| Seniority |
Jobs |
25% |
Median |
75% |
| All levels |
10 |
$116K |
$148K |
$161K |
Based only on the listings that state pay. Gross annual amounts, converted to USD so roles in different currencies stay comparable.
The market right now
Alion currently lists 35 open Data Scientist jobs in Zurich from 29 companies. 6 of them were posted or refreshed in the last seven days. 25 of the employers have posted something in the last three months, which is the pool worth watching if you are starting a search now. Every listing links straight to the employer, so you apply on their own board rather than through an intermediary.
What these roles pay
10 of these Data Scientist jobs in Zurich state pay directly. Across them the middle half of the market sits between $116K and $161K a year, with a median of $148K. Figures are gross annual amounts converted to US dollars, so roles in different currencies stay comparable.
Where the work is
The largest concentrations of these roles are Switzerland (12), Poland (3), United States (1), France (1), and Netherlands (1). 77% of the listings are fully remote and a further 17% are hybrid, so a large part of this market is open to you regardless of where you live.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open Data Scientist jobs in Zurich right now are Blockchain Capital (2), SportyBet (2), JobCloud (2), Kana Devianova (2), Innovation Process Technology AG (2), and Rockstar Recruiting AG (2). Each company page on Alion carries its size, funding stage, tech stack and every other position it has open, so you can judge the employer before you spend an evening on the application.
What employers ask for
Reading across the current listings, the tools that come up most often are Python (27), SQL (19), Azure (13), AWS (11), Snowflake (10), Spark (9), Google BigQuery (9), and Amazon Redshift (9). The counts are how many of these openings name each one, which is a better guide to what is actually being hired for than a generic skills list.
Relocation, visas and equity
Of the current Data Scientist jobs in Zurich, 1 states visa sponsorship and 3 include equity. These are filters on the list above, so you can narrow it to the ones that make a move possible for you.
