Affine Analytics - Data Scientist

Responsibilities:

- Utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning concepts to solve challenging business problems

- Work on problems from various domains like NLP, Recommendation engine, computer vision

- Should participate in complete project cycle i.e. understanding a problem statement, data gathering, analyzing data, implementing and deploying ML/AI solutions

- Should be able to learn new tools/languages quickly and continue expanding knowledge on latest advances in ML/AI

- Managing project timing, client expectations and meeting deadlines

- Publishing research articles, papers, and blogs

Desired skills and experience:

- M.S./Ph.D. in computer science, mathematics, operations research, physics or related major

- 5+ years of experience in machine learning/artificial intelligence in academics or academics plus industry (at least 1 year industry experience)

- Good knowledge in Mathematical concepts like linear algebra, statistics, information theory, generalized linear models, Markov decision processes

- Good understanding of Data Structures and algorithms

- Good understanding of Deep Learning, Computer Vision / NLP algorithms

- Experience in training DL models with frameworks like Tensorflow, PyTorch, Keras, etc

- Proficient in Python

- Excellent communication and writing skills

Good to have skills :

- Experience in AI cloud services - AWS/Azure

- Basic understanding of AI model deployment

- Adapt deep learning algorithms to best exploit modern parallel environments like GPUs, clusters