Data Scientist Opportunity

Location: Boston, MA, us

Job Description

The Data Science team is responsible for managing all data analytics, reporting and algorithmic aspects for our client.  The data science team is an integral part of every function in the life cycle of the company to provide product, tools, business support.  As a data scientist you will work closely with architects, engineers, account managers and data scientists within and outside the company.  You will be involved from pre-sales to support. You will work on next generation algorithms development and help measure, maintain and upgrade current business.  

Qualifications

REQUIRED SKILLS
Outstanding technical abilities with 5+ years of Scala, Java, or C/C++ development experience with statistical machine learning models
Rounded business skills with the ability to understand customer business needs
Ability to solve problems practically for clients and internal needs
Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to communicate clearly and concisely with executives, engineers, account managers, sales, business partners and data scientists.
Ability to respond to customer needs and meet deadlines with accurate work while under pressure
Expected to build statistical, optimization and machine learning models followed by detailed pre-production out of sample validation and recommendation for a/b testing experiments with success criteria.
Own complete life cycle from problem formulation to solution deployment and maintenance
Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms
Have a strong mathematical background and have experience with modeling complex high dimensional problems
Experience performing petabyte scale data analysis and developing meaningful visualizations
Must be able to collaborate with architects, engineers, and data scientists within and outside the company.
EXPERIENCE
Proven to thrive in start up environments
Experience defining and building web scale algorithms, reports and visualizations
Must be organized, have an eye for detail, and be able to put ideas into a tangible form
Ability to prioritize and manage work to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment and the ability to develop new approaches to complex design problems
Experience with developing production grade algorithms for the web scale
Preferred - Ph.D. in Computer Science, Operations Research, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or other quantitative fields.
Experience with Spark, Kaplan, Breeze, map/reduce models a plus
Experience modeling stochastic processes, Bayesian learning models, utility theory, game theory a plus

Additional Information

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