Essential Functions Explore and aggregate data independently to uncover data anomalies that impact algorithm performance. Data Scientist JD: Experienced data science, engineering, mathematics, or related work experience is required.
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Location
Alexandria, VA
Description
Role : Data Scientist
Location : Scottsdale AZ (onsite) Rate : $72/hr.
Data Scientist JD:
Experienced data science, engineering, mathematics, or related work experience is required.
Experience developing data science pipelines & workflows in Python, R or equivalent programming language. Experience in writing and tuning SQL. Experience handling terabyte size datasets
Experience applying various machine learning techniques, and understanding the key parameters that affect their performance
Experience using ML libraries, such as scikit-learn, mllib, etc.
Experience using data visualization tools
Able to write production level code, which is well-written and explainable
Interest to do lots and lots of proof of concepts/rapid prototyping
Ability to effectively communicate findings from complex analyses to non-technical audiences.
Essential Functions
Explore and aggregate data independently to uncover data anomalies that impact algorithm performance
End to end feature engineering - brainstorm, create, validate, down-select, etc.
Write production level code in a dynamic, start-up environment
Solve complex problems using terabyte size data sets
Apply of a variety of machine learning techniques to a business problem to arrive at optimal approach
Partner with Product and Engineering teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities
Explain and visualize results and algorithm performance to non-technical audiences
Support the company's commitment to protect the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.
Preferred Qualifications
Pyspark experience
Building fraud and/or risk models
Knowledge of advanced ML algorithms
Industry experience in machine learning
Experience exploring data and finding hidden patterns