Data Scientist

Data Scientist

Washington DC or Remote Full Time

Responsibilities

• Modeling complex problems, discovering insights and identifying opportunities through the use of statistical, algorithmic, mining and visualization techniques
• Participating in the areas of architecture, design, implementation, and testing
• Proposing innovative ways to look at problems by using data mining approaches on the set of information available
• Designing experiments, testing hypotheses, and building models
• Conducting advanced data analysis and designing highly complex algorithm
• Applying advanced statistical and predictive modeling techniques to build, maintain, and improve on multiple real-time decision systems

Qualifications

You are the ideal candidate for this job if you have:

• At least 5 years experience in Java, Spring and MySQL (or any relational database) and Python
• Experience with databases (including NoSQL)
• Experience in machine learning frameworks and libraries
• Supervised and Unsupervised learning
• Machine learning concepts and techniques: Regularization, Boosting, Random Forests, Decision Trees, Bayesian models, Neural networks, Support Vector Machines (SVM)
• Experience with the whole ETL data cycle (extract, validate, transform, clean, aggregate, audit, archive)
• Computer Science or Mathematics or Physics degree
• Excellent communication and analytical skills
• Willingness to work hard (50 hrs per week)
• Very good English

Nice To Have (Not Required)

• Experience with Apache Spark
• Natural Language Processing (tokenization, tagging, sentiment analysis, entity recognition, summarization)
• R programming language