Data Scientist

Data Scientist

Location: San Bruno, CA

Duration: Long Term

Work Experience: 10+ Years

Job Duties:

• Design and build new data set processes for modeling, data mining, and production purposes.
• Determine new ways to improve data and search quality, and predictive capabilities.
• Perform and interpret data studies and product experiments concerning new data sources or new uses for existing data sources.
• Develop prototypes, proof of concepts, algorithms, predictive models, and custom analysis.

Minimum Qualifications:

• PhD in Computer Science, Statistics or related field; OR a Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Statistics or related field and 2 years of related experience.
• Knowledge of machine learning, information retrieval, data mining, statistics, NLP or related field.
• Programming skills in one of the following languages: Java, Scala, C/C++.
• Knowledge of one of the scripting languages such as Python or Perl.
• Experience analyzing and interpreting the results of product experiments.
• Knowledge of statistical languages such as R.
• Experience working with large data sets and distributed computing tools (Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, or Spark).
• Working knowledge of Relational Data Base Systems and SQL.
• Experience managing end-to-end machine learning pipeline from data exploration, feature engineering, model building, performance evaluation, and online testing with big data set.
• Excellent communications and organizational skills.
• Prior experience in this area with eCommerce or Online Retail would be a plus.