Hypersonix - Principal Data Scientist

Roles and Responsibilities

- Responsible for design, architecture, and delivery of a feature or component/product with the highest quality

- Driving innovations in the platform constantly & remaining ahead of the curve

- Collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end products & features

- Demonstrates ability to multi-task and re-prioritize responsibilities based on changing requirements

- Provide functional, design, and code reviews in related areas of expertise within the team and cross-team

- Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of data to help automate and optimize key processes

- Design, develop, evaluate and deploy innovative and highly scalable models for predictive learning

- Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches

- Work closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time model implementations and new feature creations

- Work closely with business owners and operations staff to optimize various business operations

- Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analyses, model development, model validation, and model implementation

- Mentor/coach engineers to facilitate their development and provide technical leadership to them

- Rises the above detail to see broader issues and implications for the whole product/team

Requirements

- A BS/MS/Ph.D. in Computer Science or Machine learning or Operational research or Statistics or in a highly quantitative field

- 8+ years of hands-on experience in applied Machine Learning, Big Data and products

- An ideal candidate should have a strong grasp of depth and breadth of knowledge in machine learning, data mining, and data analytics concepts as well as executions

- Strong Problem-solving ability

- Strong knowledge of scientific programming in scripting languages like Python

- Experience in designing and implementing information retrieval, web mining and neural network, and other classification algorithms

- Big thinker that can take broad visions and concepts and develop structured plans, actions, and measurable metrics and then execute those plans

- Expertise in using Python as well as with Spark ML, scikit-learn, Tensorflow, or similar machine/Deep learning open-source software libraries

- Superior organization, communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills

- Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoys challenging assignments in a high-energy, fast-growing, and start-up workplace

- Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in a fluid environment

- Must be excited by challenges surrounding the development of massively scalable & distributed system

- Agility and ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities

Good-to-have skills

- Experience in online Commerce (Retail/CPG/Restaurants/Hospitality) domain

- Experience in building products that are powered by data & insights

- Experience in Machine learning deployment and hands-on knowledge of Kubeflow/ML-flow

- Experience in working on massively large-scale data

- Experience in data structures & algorithms skills