Data Scientist (Java, Scala, C/C++) | Remote | Contract
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.
Data Scientist (Java, Scala, C/C++) in Remote at Unknown Company
This position is listed as contract and able to be worked remotely.