Data Scientist - Retail

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 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

- Ph.D. degree in Computer science/Statistics/Mathematics/Machine learning/Data science or other artificial intelligence related subjects

- Experience in machine learning/artificial intelligence in academics or industry

- Expert level in at least one programming language. Preferably R or Python

- Knowledge of statistics and machine learning (Probability theory, parametric and non-parametric models, supervised and unsupervised ML techniques)

- Knowledge of deep learning algorithms (CNN, RNN, autoencoders, etc.)

- Knowledge in databases preferable