Position can be full-time, contract or contract to hire.
As Data Scientist, the successful candidate will:
– Frame and conduct complex analyses and experiments using large, complex (not always well-structured, highly variable) data sets
– Source, scrub, and join varied data sets from public, commercial, and proprietary sources
– Design and implement scripts, programs, databases, and other software components
– Review relevant academic and industry research to identify useful algorithms, techniques, libraries, etc.
– Draw conclusions and effectively communicate findings with both technical and non-technical team members.
Qualifications
– Bachelor’s Degree in Math, Statistics, Computer Science, or other quantitative discipline
– 3+ years’ experience with data mining, machine learning, statistical modeling tools and underlying algorithms
– 3+ years’ experience with relational databases and SQL
– 3+ years’ experience working with extremely large data sets
– 3+ years’ experience in R, Perl, Python, Java, or other languages appropriate for large scale analysis of numerical and textual data