Senior Data Scientist

About the Role

The job incumbent will be responsible for developing and managing the data science strategy for the company. He/She is also expected to work with stakeholders across the business to identify opportunities to use data to drive decision making, to enhance the business’ capabilities for overall goal achievement, and to adopt the advanced data science and analytics across the business. The Senior Data Scientist will also be responsible for building and maintaining a team of data scientists, as well as developing and managing relationships with external partners.

Responsibilities

• Select and employ advanced statistical procedures to obtain actionable insights.
• Produce and disseminate non-technical reports that detail the successes and limitations of each project.
• Become a multiplier for the data science team by sharing work, providing mentorship, providing technical feedback, and developing shared team tooling.
• Solve challenging real-world problems using massive multimodal data (text, image, video and other proprietary data) and state-of-the-art machine learning platforms.
• Work with machine learning engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders, with strong product ownership from research to production.
• Build cutting-edge AI applications, often involving geospatial and location intelligence.
• Demonstrate a commitment to improve and comply with SSHE policy, environment regulations as well as labor law.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related fields.
• At least 5 years of experience in a data science role or equivalent with proven capability in leading the execution of end-to-end data solutions for business stakeholders.
• Experience and exposure to advanced computer vision, image processing and machine learning.
• Experience with deep learning libraries (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) and deep learning models/algorithms (e.g., CNNs, RNNs, attention, transformers).
• Experience building high-quality predictive models (classification, regression).
• Good understanding of how to design experiments and choose/construct the right metrics for engineering/business success.
• Good understanding of SQL.

Required Skills/Abilities

• Strong programming skills in Python such as Scikit-learn, Pandas, etc.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and critical thinking skills with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to balance multiple projects and be flexible in day-to-day work tasks.
• An excitement and willingness to learn new tools and techniques.
• Lead model development without supervision and mentor team members.