AI/ML Developer

Company Profile :

Merilytics, an Accordion company is a fast-growing analytics firm offering advanced a and intelligent analytical solutions to clients globally. We combine domain expertise, advanced analytics, and technology to provide robust solutions for clients' business problems. You can find further details about the company at https://merilytics.com.

We partner with our clients in Private Equity, CPG, Retail, Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, Technology, Logistics industries etc. by providing analytical solutions to generate superior returns. We solve clients' business problems by analyzing large amount of data to help guide their Operations, Marketing, Pricing, Customer Strategies, and much more.

Position :

- Business Associate at Merilytics will be working on complex analytical projects and is the primary owner of the work streams involved.

- The Business Associates are expected to lead the team of Business Analysts to deliver robust analytical solutions consistently and mentor the Analysts for professional development.

Location : Hyderabad

Roles and Responsibilities :

The roles and responsibilities of a Business Associate will include the below:

- Proactively provide thought leadership to the team and have complete control on the delivery process of the project.

- Understand the client's point of view and translate it into sound judgment calls in ambiguous analytical situations.

- Highlight potential analytical issues upfront and resolve them independently.

- Synthesizes the analysis and derives insights independently.

- Identify the crux of the client problem and leverage it to draw relevant actionable insights from the analysis/work.

- Ability to manage multiple Analysts and provide customized guidance for individual development.

- Resonate with our five core values - Client First, Excellence, Integrity, Respect and Teamwork.

Pre-requisites and skillsets required to apply for this role :

- Undergraduate degree (B.E/B.Tech.) from tier-1/tier-2 colleges are preferred.

- Should have 2-4 years of experience.

- Strong leadership & proactive communication to coordinate with the project team and other internal stakeholders.

- Ability to use business judgement and a structured approach towards solving complex problems.

- Experience in client-facing/professional services environment is a plus.

- Strong hard skills on analytics tools such as R, Python, SQL, and Excel is a plus.

Why Explore a Career at Merilytics :

- High growth environment: Semi-annual performance management and promotion cycles coupled with a strong meritocratic culture, enables fast track to leadership responsibility.

- Cross Domain Exposure: Interesting and challenging work streams across industries and domains that always keep you excited, motivated, and on your toes.

- Entrepreneurial Environment: Intellectual freedom to make decisions and own them. We expect you to spread your wings and assume larger responsibilities.

- Fun culture and peer group: Non-bureaucratic and fun working environment; Strong peer environment that will challenge you and accelerate your learning curve.

Other benefits for full time employees:

(i) Health and wellness programs that include employee health insurance covering immediate family members and parents, term life insurance for employees, free health camps for employees, discounted health services (including vision, dental) for employee and family members, free doctor's consultations, counselors, etc.

(ii) Corporate Meal card options for ease of use and tax benefits.

(iii) Work dinners, team lunches, company sponsored team outings and celebrations.

(iv) Reimbursement support for travel to the office, as and when promulgated by the Company.

(v) Cab reimbursement for women employees beyond a certain time of the day.

(vi) Robust leave policy to support work-life balance. Specially designed leave structure to support woman employees for maternity and related requests.

(vii) Reward and recognition platform to celebrate professional and personal milestones.

(viii) A positive & transparent work environment including various employee engagement and employee benefit initiatives to support personal and professional learning and development.

Work with the manager through the entire analytical and machine learning model life cycle:

⮚ Define the problem statement

⮚ Build and clean datasets

⮚ Exploratory data analysis

⮚ Feature engineering

⮚ Apply ML algorithms and assess the performance

⮚ Codify for deployment

⮚ Test and troubleshoot the code

⮚ Communicate analysis to stakeholders

Technical Skills

⮚ Proven experience in usage of Python and SQL

⮚ Excellent in programming and statistics

⮚ Working knowledge of tools and utilities - AWS, DevOps with Git, Selenium, Postman, Airflow, PySpark

At Livello we building machine-learning-based demand forecasting tools as well as computer-vision-based multi-camera product recognition solutions that detects people and products to track the inserted/removed items on shelves based on the hand movement of users. We are building models to determine real-time inventory levels, user behaviour as well as predicting how much of each product needs to be reordered so that the right products are delivered to the right locations at the right time, to fulfil customer demand.

Responsibilities

• Lead the CV and DS Team
• Work in the area of Computer Vision and Machine Learning, with focus on product (primarily food) and people recognition (position, movement, age, gender, DSGVO compliant).
• Your work will include formulation and development of a Machine Learning models to solve the underlying problem.
• You help build our smart supply chain system, keep up to date with the latest algorithmic improvements in forecasting and predictive areas, challenge the status quo
• Statistical data modelling and machine learning research.
• Conceptualize, implement and evaluate algorithmic solutions for supply forecasting, inventory optimization, predicting sales, and automating business processes
• Conduct applied research to model complex dependencies, statistical inference and predictive modelling
• Technological conception, design and implementation of new features
• Quality assurance of the software through planning, creation and execution of tests
• Work with a cross-functional team to define, build, test, and deploy applications

Requirements:

• Master/PHD in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Econometrics, Computer Science or any related fields.
• 3-4 years of experience with computer vision and data science.
• Relevant Data Science experience, deep technical background in applied data science (machine learning algorithms, statistical analysis, predictive modelling, forecasting, Bayesian methods, optimization techniques).
• Experience building production-quality and well-engineered Computer Vision and Data Science products.
• Experience in image processing, algorithms and neural networks.
• Knowledge of the tools, libraries and cloud services for Data Science. Ideally Google Cloud Platform
• Solid Python engineering skills and experience with Python, Tensorflow, Docker
• Cooperative and independent work, analytical mindset, and willingness to take responsibility
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.

• Your responsibilities:
• Build, improve and extend NLP capabilities
• Research and evaluate different approaches to NLP problems
• Must be able to write code that is well designed, produce deliverable results
• Write code that scales and can be deployed to production

• Fundamentals of statistical methods is a must
• Experience in named entity recognition, POS Tagging, Lemmatization, vector representations of textual data and neural networks - RNN, LSTM
• A solid foundation in Python, data structures, algorithms, and general software development skills.
• Ability to apply machine learning to problems that deal with language
• Engineering ability to build robustly scalable pipelines
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team with a strong product focus

About Us

Mindtickle provides a comprehensive, data-driven solution for sales readiness and enablement that fuels revenue growth and brand value for dozens of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies and hundreds of the world’s most recognized companies across technology, life sciences, financial services, manufacturing, and service sectors.

With purpose-built applications, proven methodologies, and best practices designed to drive effective sales onboarding and ongoing readiness, mindtickle enables company leaders and sellers to continually assess, diagnose and develop the knowledge, skills, and behaviors required to engage customers and drive growth effectively. We are funded by great investors, like – Softbank, Canaan partners, NEA, Accel Partners, and others.

Job Brief

We are looking for a rockstar researcher at the Center of Excellence for Machine Learning. You are responsible for thinking outside the box, crafting new algorithms, developing end-to-end artificial intelligence-based solutions, and rightly selecting the most appropriate architecture for the system(s), such that it suits the business needs, and achieves the desired results under given constraints.

Credibility:

• You must have a proven track record in research and development with adequate publication/patenting and/or academic credentials in data science.
• You have the ability to directly connect business problems to research problems along with the latest emerging technologies.

Strategic Responsibility:

• To perform the following: understanding problem statements, connecting the dots between high-level business statements and deep technology algorithms, crafting new systems and methods in the space of structured data mining, natural language processing, computer vision, speech technologies, robotics or Internet of things etc. 
• To be responsible for end-to-end production level coding with data science and machine learning algorithms, unit and integration testing, deployment, optimization and fine-tuning of models on cloud, desktop, mobile or edge etc.
• To learn in a continuous mode, upgrade and upskill along with publishing novel articles in journals and conference proceedings and/or filing patents, and be involved in evangelism activities and ecosystem development etc.
• To share knowledge, mentor colleagues, partners, and customers, take sessions on artificial intelligence topics both online or in-person, participate in workshops, conferences, seminars/webinars as a speaker, instructor, demonstrator or jury member etc.
• To design and develop high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and deliver high availability and performance.
• To collaborate within the product streams and team to bring best practices and leverage world-class tech stack.
• To set up every essentials (tracking / alerting) to make sure the infrastructure / software built is working as expected.
• To search, collect and clean Data for analysis and setting up efficient storage and retrieval pipelines.

Personality:

• Requires excellent communication skills – written, verbal, and presentation.
• You should be a team player.
• You should be positive towards problem-solving and have a very structured thought process to solve problems.
• You should be agile enough to learn new technology if needed.

Qualifications:

• B Tech / BS / BE / M Tech / MS / ME in CS or equivalent from Tier I / II or Top Tier Engineering Colleges and Universities.
• 6+ years of strong software (application or infrastructure) development experience and software engineering skills (Python, R, C, C++ / Java / Scala / Golang).
• Deep expertise and practical knowledge of operating systems, MySQL and NoSQL databases(Redis/couchbase/mongodb/ES or any graphDB).
• Good understanding of Machine Learning Algorithms, Linear Algebra and Statistics.
• Working knowledge of Amazon Web Services(AWS).
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes will be a plus.
• Experience with Natural Language Processing, Recommendation Systems, or Search Engines.

Our Culture

As an organization, it’s our priority to create a highly engaging and rewarding workplace. We offer tons of awesome perks, great learning opportunities & growth.

Our culture reflects the globally diverse backgrounds of our employees along with our commitment to our customers, each other, and a passion for excellence.

To know more about us, feel free to go through these videos:

1. Sales Readiness Explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyMJj9AlNww&;t=6s

2. What We Do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv3Q2XgnkBY

3. Ready to Close More Deals, Faster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB0exreVU-s

To view more videos, please access the below-mentioned link:

https://www.youtube.com/c/mindtickle/videos

Mindtickle is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Your Right to Work - In compliance with applicable laws, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the respective work locations and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.

Your Day-to-Day

1. Derive Insights and drive major strategic projects to improve Business Metrics and take responsibility for cost efficiency and Revenue management across the country
2. Perform Market research, Post Mortem analyses on competitor expansion and Market Penetration patterns. 
3. Provide in-depth business analysis and data insights for internal stakeholders to help improve business. Derive and launch projects in order to reduce the gaps between targeted and projected business metrics
4. Responsible for optimizing Carsome’s C2B and B2C customer acquisition and Dealer retention funnel. Work closely with Marketing and Tech teams to create, produce and implement creative digital marketing campaigns and drive CRM initiatives and strategies 
5. Analyse the Revenue flows and processes large datasets to gather process insights and propose process improvement ideas for Carsome across SE-Asia
6. Lead commercial projects & process mapping, from conceptualization to completion, to build or re-engineer business models, tools and processes.
7. Having experience in analyses and insights in dealing on Unit Economics, COGs and P&L will be preferred ,but not mandatory
8. Use Business Intelligence and Data Science tools to answer the appropriate business problems using SQL, Tableau or Python.
9. Coordinate with HQ Data Insights Team and manage internal stakeholders across departments to ensure the smooth delivery of strategic projects
10. Work across different departments/functions (BI,DE, tech, pricing, finance, operations, marketing, CS,CX) and also on high impact projects and support business expansion initiatives

Your Know-Know

• At least a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting/Finance/Business or the equivalent. 
• 3-5  years of experience in strategy / consulting / analytical / project management roles; experience in e-commerce, Start-ups or Unicorns(CARS24,OLA,SWIGGY,FLIPKART,OYO) or entrepreneur experience preferred + At Least 2 years of experience leading a team
• Top-notch academics from a Tier 1 college (IIM / IIT/ NIT)
• Must have SQL/PostgreSQL/Tableau Experience. 
• Excellent Market Research, reporting and analytical skills, including carrying out weekly and monthly reporting
• Holds experience in working with Data/Business Intelligence Team
• Analytical mindset with ability to present data in a structured and informative way
• Enjoy a fast-paced environment and can align business objectives with product priorities
• Good to have : Financial modelling, Developing financial forecasts , development of Financial - strategic plan/framework