Senior Data Scientist

We’re looking for a Sr. Data Scientist with strong technical acumen to design build and train algorithms and models to improve and streamline business processes for large enterprise customers.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with diverse stakeholders to gather business requirements and translate them into technical specifications to inform model design and implementation

• Conduct data manipulation required for model pre- and post-processing (preparing the data)

• Author articulate reports visualizations and presentations to communicate your process and results to stakeholders with varying levels of technical understanding

• Engage with interdisciplinary development teams such as data engineers and machine learning engineers to leverage MLOPs frameworks to support the longevity of models (work across functional teams)

• Proactively and independently  engage with customers and take ownership for implementing data science best practices unique to each project

• Drive thought leadership in the data science community by actively contributing to open source projects sharing insights through engaging talks and advancing global data science practices

Qualifications:

• Advanced degree or evidence of exceptional ability in engineering computer science mathematics physics chemistry or operations research

• 3-5+ years hands-on experience in building models and developing algorithms for real-world applications and data-driven optimizations

• Depth of knowledge in advanced mathematics machine learning and statistics

• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures algorithms distributed systems

• Mastery of one or more data analysis languages such as R Python PySpark and SQL

• Experience with data science tools including Python scripting NumPy SciPy matplotlib scikit-learn Jupyter notebooks bash scripting

• Experience with XGBoost Facebook Prophet Random Forests and other major data science algorithms and packages

• Preferred - familiarity developing on cloud platforms such as AWS Azure and Databricks

• Exemplary verbal and written communication skills ability to relate technical results and business outcomes to technical & non-technical audiences

• Able to work under pressure while managing competing demands and tight deadlines

• Well organized with meticulous attention to detail

Why phData? We offer:

• Remote-First Work Environment

• Casual award-winning small-business work environment

• Collaborative culture that prizes autonomy creativity and transparency

• Competitive comp excellent benefits 4 weeks PTO plus 10 Holidays (and other cool perks)

• Accelerated learning and professional development through advanced training and certifications

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