Data Scientist

Job Description

Job Description

Role : Data Scientist
Location : Scottsdale AZ (onsite)
Rate : $72/hr.

• Experienced data science, engineering, mathematics, or related work experience is required.
• Experience developing data science pipelines & workflows in Python, R or equivalent programming language. Experience in writing and tuning SQL. Experience handling terabyte size datasets
• Experience applying various machine learning techniques, and understanding the key parameters that affect their performance
• Experience using ML libraries, such as scikit-learn, mllib, etc.
• Experience using data visualization tools
• Able to write production level code, which is well-written and explainable
• Interest to do lots and lots of proof of concepts/rapid prototyping
• Ability to effectively communicate findings from complex analyses to non-technical audiences.

• Explore and aggregate data independently to uncover data anomalies that impact algorithm performance
• End to end feature engineering - brainstorm, create, validate, down-select, etc.
• Write production level code in a dynamic, start-up environment
• Solve complex problems using terabyte size data sets
• Apply of a variety of machine learning techniques to a business problem to arrive at optimal approach
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities
• Explain and visualize results and algorithm performance to non-technical audiences
• Support the company's commitment to protect the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

• Pyspark experience
• Building fraud and/or risk models
• Knowledge of advanced ML algorithms
• Industry experience in machine learning
• Experience exploring data and finding hidden patterns