Senior Data Scientist

About GitHub

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Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

GitHub is seeking experienced professionals to elevate our data and analytics efforts. As a Senior Data Scientist in Data Science, you will leverage your deep expertise and knowledge of data science, AI/ML, analytics engineering, and business to lead data acquisition efforts, conduct thorough review of data analysis and data quality, form hypotheses and discover insights in the data to support business stakeholders and their decision making. The ideal candidate will contribute to the impact of our Data Science initiatives and gain deep insights into the latest advancements in AI, machine learning and data science.

Responsibilities

• Lead data acquisition efforts and ensure data is properly formatted and accurately described, while adhering to GitHub's privacy policies
• Mentor others in data cleaning and data analysis best practices. Identify gaps in current data sets and drive onboarding of new data sets from production systems or third-party vendors.
• Resolve data integrity problems in collaboration with relevant teams to promote upstream change and long-term quality
• Leverage broad and deep knowledge of data modeling techniques, AI/ML tools, programming languages and query languages to create models, conduct experiments, analyze results, evaluating the methodology and performance of team members' models and recommending improvements.
• Drive best practices relative to model validation, implementation, and application, and partners with teams across the organization to identify and explore new opportunities for driving transformative solutions for our stakeholders and customers.
• Develop and articulate data-driven strategies in consideration of business priorities and lead conversations with end customers and/or internal stakeholders to understand, define, and solve business problems.
• Communicate complex statistics, and machine learning topics to diverse audiences (e.g., multidisciplinary teams, customers, technical and non-technical audiences)
• Independently writes efficient, readable, extensible code that spans multiple features/solutions. Contributes to the code/model review process by providing feedback and suggestions for implementation and improvement.
• Drive operational excellence for model deployment (i.e. performance, scalability, monitoring, maintenance, integration into engineering production system, stability)
• Produce project plans to define necessary steps required for completion, leading to a measurable improvement in business performance metrics over time.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years experience in data science (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques) or related field
  • OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years experience in data science (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques) or related field
  • OR Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in data science (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques) or related field
  • OR equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical understanding of data science techniques for regression, classification, time-series analysis, experimental design, causal inference
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python or R, experience with query languages such as SQL and KQL, and with data manipulation tools like Spark and Airflow
• Able to clearly communicate findings to non-technical stakeholders through storytelling and visualization with tools like Jupyter notebooks or Azure Data Explorer/ PowerBI dashboards

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $124,000.00 - USD $329,200.00 /Yr.

These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.

This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.

Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!).At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.

Join us, and let’s change the world, together.

EEO Statement

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