Data Engineer

About the company

 Changing the way cataloging is done across the Globe. Our vision is to empower the smallest of
sellers, situated in the farthest of corners, to create superior product images and videos, without the need
for any external professional help. Imagine 30M+ merchants shooting Product Images or Videos using
their Smartphones, and then choosing Filters for Amazon, Asos, Airbnb, Doordash, etc to instantly
compose High-Quality "tuned-in" product visuals, instantly.  
editing AI software, to capture and process beautiful product images for online selling. We are also
fortunate and proud to be backed by the biggest names in the investment community including the likes of
Accel Partners, Angellist and prominent Founders and Internet company operators, who believe that
there is an intelligent and efficient way of doing Digital Production than how the world operates currently.

Job Description :

- We are looking for a seasoned Computer Vision Engineer with AI/ML/CV and Deep Learning skills to
play a senior leadership role in our Product & Technology Research Team.
- You will be leading a team of CV researchers to build models that automatically transform millions of ecommerce, automobiles, food, real-estate ram images into processed final images.
- You will be responsible for researching the latest art of the possible in the field of computer vision,
designing the solution architecture for our offerings and lead the Computer Vision teams to build the core
algorithmic models & deploy them on Cloud Infrastructure.
- Working with the Data team to ensure your data pipelines are well set up and
models are being constantly trained and updated
- Working alongside product team to ensure that AI capabilities are built as democratized tools that
provides internal as well external stakeholders to innovate on top of it and make our customers
successful
- You will work closely with the Product & Engineering teams to convert the models into beautiful products
that will be used by thousands of Businesses everyday to transform their images and videos.

Job Requirements:

- 4-5 years of experience overall.
- Looking for strong Computer Vision experience and knowledge.
- BS/MS/ Phd degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject from a ivy league institute
- Exposure on Deep Learning Techniques, TensorFlow/Pytorch
- Prior expertise on building Image processing applications using GANs, CNNs, Diffusion models
- Expertise with Image Processing Python libraries like OpenCV, etc.
- Good hands-on experience on Python, Flask or Django framework
- Authored publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g. NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR,ICCV, ACL)
- Prior experience of managing teams and building large scale AI / CV projects is a big plus
- Great interpersonal and communication skills
- Critical thinker and problem-solving skills

What you will do

• Bring in industry best practices around creating and maintaining robust data pipelines for complex data projects with/without AI component
  • programmatically ingesting data from several static and real-time sources (incl. web scraping)
  • rendering results through dynamic interfaces incl. web / mobile / dashboard with the ability to log usage and granular user feedbacks
  • performance tuning and optimal implementation of complex Python scripts (using SPARK), SQL (using stored procedures, HIVE), and NoSQL queries in a production environment

• Industrialize ML / DL solutions and deploy and manage production services; proactively handle data issues arising on live apps
• Perform ETL on large and complex datasets for AI applications - work closely with data scientists on performance optimization of large-scale ML/DL model training
• Build data tools to facilitate fast data cleaning and statistical analysis
• Ensure data architecture is secure and compliant
• Resolve issues escalated from Business and Functional areas on data quality, accuracy, and availability
• Work closely with APAC CDO and coordinate with a fully decentralized team across different locations in APAC and global HQ (Paris).

You should be

•  Expert in structured and unstructured data in traditional and Big data environments – Oracle / SQLserver, MongoDB, Hive / Pig, BigQuery, and Spark
• Have excellent knowledge of Python programming both in traditional and distributed models (PySpark)
• Expert in shell scripting and writing schedulers
• Hands-on experience with Cloud - deploying complex data solutions in hybrid cloud / on-premise environment both for data extraction/storage and computation
• Hands-on experience in deploying production apps using large volumes of data with state-of-the-art technologies like Dockers, Kubernetes, and Kafka
• Strong knowledge of data security best practices
• 5+ years experience in a data engineering role
• Science / Engineering graduate from a Tier-1 university in the country
• And most importantly, you must be a passionate coder who really cares about building apps that can help people do things better, smarter, and faster even when they sleep

We are looking for an exceptionally talented Lead data engineer who has exposure in implementing AWS services to build data pipelines, api integration and designing data warehouse. Candidate with both hands-on and leadership capabilities will be ideal for this position.

 

Qualification: At least a bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics. Preferred Masters degree

 

Job Responsibilities:

• Total 6+ years of experience as a Data Engineer and 2+ years of experience in managing a team

• Have minimum 3 years of AWS Cloud experience.

• Well versed in languages such as Python, PySpark, SQL, NodeJS etc

• Has extensive experience in Spark ecosystem and has worked on both real time and batch processing

• Have experience in AWS Glue, EMR, DMS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Step functions, Airflow, RDS, Aurora etc.

• Experience with modern Database systems such as Redshift, Presto, Hive etc.

• Worked on building data lakes in the past on S3 or Apache Hudi

• Solid understanding of Data Warehousing Concepts

• Good to have experience on tools such as Kafka or Kinesis

• Good to have AWS Developer Associate or Solutions Architect Associate Certification

• Have experience in managing a team

  Strong knowledge in statistical and data mining techniques: GLM/Regression, Random Forest, Boosting, Trees, text mining, etc. 

 Sound Knowlegde querying databases and using statistical computer languages: R, Python, SQL, etc. 

 Strong understanding creating and using advanced machine learning algorithms and statistics: regression, simulation, scenario analysis, modeling, clustering, decision trees, neural networks, etc. 

 

Who we are?
Outplay is building the future of sales engagement, a solution that helps sales teams personalize at scale while consistently staying on message and on task, through true multi-channel outreach including email, phone, SMS, chat and social media. Outplay is the only tool your sales team will ever need to crush their goals. Funded by Sequoia - Headquartered in the US. Sequoia not only led a $2 million seed round in Outplay early this year, but also followed with $7.3 million Series - A recently. The team is spread remotely all over the globe.

Perks of being an Outplayer :
• Fully remote job - You can be on the mountains or at the beach, and still work with us. Outplay is a 100% remote company.
• Flexible work hours - We believe mental health is way more important than a 9-5 job.
• Health Insurance - We are a family, and we take care of each other - we provide medical insurance coverage to all employees and their family members. We also provide an additional benefit of doctor consultation along with the insurance plan. 
• Annual company retreat - we work hard, and we party harder.
• Best tools - we buy you the best tools of the trade
• Celebrations - No, we never forget your birthday or anniversary (be it work or wedding) and we never leave an opportunity to celebrate milestones and wins.
• Safe space to innovate and experiment
• Steady career growth and job security

About the Role:
We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to help research, develop and advance the charter of AI at Outplay and push the threshold of conversational intelligence.

Job description :
• Lead AI initiatives that dissects data for creating new feature prototypes and minimum viable products
• Conduct product research in natural language processing, conversation intelligence, and virtual assistant technologies
• Use independent judgment to enhance product by using existing data and building AI/ML models
• Collaborate with teams, provide technical guidance to colleagues and come up with new ideas for rapid prototyping. Convert prototypes into scalable and efficient products.
• Work closely with multiple teams on projects using textual and voice data to build conversational intelligence
• Prototype and demonstrate AI augmented capabilities in the product for customers
• Conduct experiments to assess the precision and recall of language processing modules and study the effect of such experiments on different application areas of sales
• Assist business development teams in the expansion and enhancement of a feature pipeline to support short and long-range growth plans
• Identify new business opportunities and prioritize pursuits of AI for different areas of conversational intelligence
• Build reusable and scalable solutions for use across a varied customer base
• Participate in long range strategic planning activities designed to meet the company’s objectives and revenue goals

Required Skills :
• Bachelors or Masters in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research or related field with focus on applied Machine Learning, AI, NLP and data-driven statistical analysis & modelling.
• 4+ years of experience applying AI/ML/NLP/Deep Learning/ data-driven statistical analysis & modelling solutions to multiple domains. Experience in the Sales and Marketing domain is a plus.
• Experience in building Natural Language Processing (NLP), Conversational Intelligence, and Virtual Assistants based features.
• Excellent grasp on programming languages like Python. Experience in GoLang would be a plus.
• Proficient in analysis using python packages like Pandas, Plotly, Numpy, Scipy, etc.
• Strong and proven programming skills in machine learning and deep learning with experience in frameworks such as TensorFlow/Keras, Pytorch, Transformers, Spark etc
• Excellent communication skills to explain complex solutions to stakeholders across multiple disciplines.
• Experience in SQL, RDBMS, Data Management and Cloud Computing (AWS and/or Azure) is a plus.
• Extensive experience of training and deploying different Machine Learning models
• Experience in monitoring deployed models to proactively capture data drifts, low performing models, etc.
• Exposure to Deep Learning, Neural Networks or related fields
• Passion for solving AI/ML problems for both textual and voice data.
• Fast learner, with great written and verbal communication skills, and be able to work independently as
well as in a team environment

Skills Requirements
 Knowledge of Hadoop ecosystem installation, initial-configuration and performance tuning.
 Expert with Apache Ambari, Spark, Unix Shell scripting, Kubernetes and Docker
 Knowledge on python would be desirable.
 Experience with HDP Manager/clients and various dashboards.
 Understanding on Hadoop Security (Kerberos, Ranger and Knox) and encryption and Data masking.
 Experience with automation/configuration management using Chef, Ansible or an equivalent.
 Strong experience with any Linux distribution.
 Basic understanding of network technologies, CPU, memory and storage.
 Database administration a plus.
Qualifications and Education Requirements
 2 to 4 years of experience with and detailed knowledge of Core Hadoop Components solutions and
dashboards running on Big Data technologies such as Hadoop/Spark.
 Bachelor degree or equivalent in Computer Science or Information Technology or related fields.

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