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Data Scientist CV template

Bracketed headings, dated gutters and skill bars — a CV shaped like a notebook.

Built for a document that gets read twice: once by a recruiter matching keywords, once by an engineer who wants to know what you actually shipped. It runs as one column with no photo, which is the combination most application portals and most UK, US and Irish employers prefer.

Live preview of the Data Scientist template, rendered at full page size with an example CV. The preview is the same code that generates your PDF.

The design

About the Data Scientist layout

Data Scientist brackets every section title in the accent colour and prints your toolkit as a two-column grid of proficiency bars, so a reviewer can size up the stack without reading a comma-separated wall of libraries. Experience and education both use a dated left gutter, which fixes the reading order to the timeline and leaves the right-hand space for what you actually built. Publications sit in their own tinted panel with the paper count called out beside the heading, for applications where the research record is the point.

Who it’s for

The readers and situations this layout was drawn for.

  • Data scientists and machine learning engineers
  • Quantitative analysts and applied researchers
  • Candidates with a published paper or preprint record

Key features

What is actually different about this template on the page.

  • Bracketed section headings
  • Two-column skill proficiency bars
  • Dated gutter for experience and education
  • Highlighted publications panel with a paper count

ATS score 4/5 · Strong

How this layout behaves in an applicant tracking system

At 4 out of 5 the substance comes through cleanly — headings, dates, employers and titles all parse — and the missing point is for styling that a small number of older systems simplify rather than read.

Headings are real headings and lists are real lists, so the boundaries between one role and the next survive extraction intact.

For most applications this is safe. Where the employer is very large, or the advert names a specific tracking system, a plainer single-column layout removes the remaining doubt: compare it against the ATS CV templates, which trade this template’s styling for the highest possible parsing score.

Parsing checklistATS score 4 out of 5
Reading order
Single flow
Headings
Real text
Tables
None
Images
None
Selectable text
Yes

Scores are our own assessment of how a parser handles the layout — never a guarantee about one specific employer’s system.

In practice

Three situations Data Scientist is the right answer to

Templates are chosen badly when they are chosen in the abstract. Here is what sending this one actually looks like.
Case 1

A named hiring manager

Sent to a person rather than a system: enough visual polish that the document looks considered on screen, and enough structure that it still parses if it is forwarded into a tracking system afterwards. A typical example: Data scientists and machine learning engineers.

Case 2

Stack and shipped work

A single flow suits a CV where each role needs three or four bullets of measurable impact, and where a hiring manager will read the projects section as carefully as the employment history.

Case 3

An application where the work speaks

No photograph means the top third of the page belongs to your name, your title and your profile — the three things a reviewer uses to decide whether to keep reading past six seconds. Data Scientist has no photo slot to remove, so the same file works in every market you send it to.

Make it yours

Customising Data Scientist

The template sets the structure; everything inside it is yours. Colours, fonts, spacing, section order and paper size are all controls in the CV builder, and the preview updates as you change them — nothing is applied blind.

Accent colour

Data Scientist ships with #7c3aed as its accent. Cool accents — indigo, teal, slate — suit the type of document. The accent is used at small sizes on labels and rules here, so anything too pale loses contrast against white; test it before you commit.

Fonts and heading style

A clean sans keeps library names, version numbers and acronyms legible at 10pt, which is where a technical CV is actually read. Decorative heading faces make a stack list harder to scan for no gain. Heading case — uppercase, capitalised or as typed — is a separate switch, and it changes the character of the page more than most people expect.

Spacing and density

Font size, line height, section spacing and page margins are all sliders. On a single column they behave predictably: reduce section spacing first, margins second, and only then the type size — a CV set below 9.5pt starts to look like an attempt to hide its length.

Sections and order

Skills, projects and certifications matter as much as employment. Promote projects above experience if you are early-career, self-taught or changing track — the work is the evidence in all three cases. Every section can be renamed, reordered or hidden, and Pro adds custom sections for anything the standard set does not cover.

Paper size and export

A4 or US Letter, switched in one control, with the layout re-flowing to the new page rather than being scaled to fit. The PDF is generated from the same code you see in the preview, so what you approve on screen is what downloads.

Data Scientist: common questions

It scores 4 out of 5, which is fine for the overwhelming majority of applications. The content parses; only some of the presentation may be flattened on the way in.

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Start your CV with Data Scientist

Open it with the example content already in place, replace it with your own, and download a PDF when it reads the way you want. Switching to another template later keeps every word you have written.

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