Data Scientist Job Description

What will I be doing? 👩‍💻👨‍💻

1. Mining text data for use in classification / predicting business outcomes.
2. Building anomaly detection models to determine fraudulent activity, unexpected trends in data, etc.
3. Applying machine learning to image classification for key business applications.
4. Identifying, evaluating, and productionizing new data sources (e.g. geospatial data, web scraping, cell phone sensors).
5. Predictive modeling related to improving insurance pricing.

What do I need? 🤓

1. Strong programming skills, especially R and/or Python
2. Demonstrated experience in building, validating, and leveraging machine learning models
3. Demonstrated skill with data mining, data munging, coping with missing / corrupt / unstructured data
4. 1+ years of industry experience building predictive models OR graduate-level research in a relevant area

Brownie points 🍰

1. Experience using big data tools (e.g. Hadoop, Spark) and cloud computing (AWS preferred)
2. Advanced knowledge of physics, linear algebra, probability/statistics

Feel free to apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. As long as you're a quick learner, and are excited about changing the status quo for tech recruitment, we're happy to support you as you come up to speed with our tech stack.