Data Scientist - EduTech

We are looking for a candidate with strong analytical abilities and experience in statistical/machine learning modeling to synthesize and leverage data in the EdTech domain.

Role and Responsibilities:

- Data mining using state-of-the-art methods

- Processing, cleansing and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis

- Extending the company's data with third-party sources of information when needed

- Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems.

Skills/competencies required:

- Must have an engineering degree from Tier -1 institutes preferably with coursework in operation research, statistics, machine learning or programming

- 2 to 3 years of experience in the analytics domain

- Strong understanding of at least 3 different machine learning models preferably NLP, Decision trees and Bayes Nets

- Familiarity with significance testing, sampling, descriptive statistics, and multivariate statistics

- Hands on experience in Python and comfortable with relational and non-relational databases

- Understanding of Item Response Theory will be an added advantage