Data Scientist

About Moative

Moative, an Applied AI company, designs and builds transformation AI solutions for traditional industries in energy, utilities, healthcare & lifesciences, and more. Through Moative Labs, we build AI micro-products and launch AI startups with partners in vertical markets that align with our theses.

Our Past: We have built and sold two companies, one of which was an AI company. Our founders and leaders are Math PhDs, Ivy League University Alumni, Ex-Googlers, and successful entrepreneurs.

Our Team: Our team of 20+ employees consist of data scientists, AI/ML Engineers, and mathematicians from top engineering and research institutes such as IITs, CERN, IISc, UZH, Ph.Ds. Our team includes academicians, IBM Research Fellows, and former founders.

Work you’ll do

As a Data Scientist at Moative, you’ll play a crucial role in extracting valuable insights from data to drive informed decision-making. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to build predictive models and develop solutions to complex business problems. You will also be involved in conducting experiments, building POCs and prototypes.

Responsibilities

• Support end-to-end development and deployment of ML/ AI models - from data preparation, data analysis and feature engineering to model development, validation and deployment
• Gather, prepare and analyze data, write code to develop and validate models, and continuously monitor and update them as needed.
• Collaborate with domain experts, engineers, and stakeholders in translating business problems into data-driven solutions
• Document methodologies and results, present findings and communicate insights to non-technical audiences

Skills & Requirements

• Proficiency in Python and familiarity with basic Python libraries for data analysis and ML algorithms (such as NumPy, Pandas, ScikitLearn, NLTK). 
• Strong understanding and experience with data analysis, statistical and mathematical concepts and ML algorithms 
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Broad understanding of data structures and data engineering.
• Strong communication skills
• Strong collaboration skills, continuous learning attitude and a problem solving mind-set

Working at Moative

Moative is a young company, but we believe strongly in thinking long-term, while acting with urgency. Our ethos is rooted in innovation, efficiency and high-quality outcomes. We believe the future of work is AI-augmented and boundary less. Here are some of our guiding principles:

• Think in decades. Act in hours. As an independent company, our moat is time. While our decisions are for the long-term horizon, our execution will be fast – measured in hours and days, not weeks and months.
• Own the canvas. Throw yourself in to build, fix or improve – anything that isn’t done right, irrespective of who did it. Be selfish about improving across the organization – because once the rot sets in, we waste years in surgery and recovery.
• Use data or don’t use data. Use data where you ought to but not as a ‘cover-my-back’ political tool. Be capable of making decisions with partial or limited data. Get better at intuition and pattern-matching. Whichever way you go, be mostly right about it.
• Avoid work about work. Process creeps on purpose, unless we constantly question it. We are deliberate about committing to rituals that take time away from the actual work. We truly believe that a meeting that could be an email, should be an email and you don’t need a person with the highest title to say that loud.
• High revenue per person. We work backwards from this metric. Our default is to automate instead of hiring. We multi-skill our people to own more outcomes than hiring someone who has less to do. We don’t like squatting and hoarding that comes in the form of hiring for growth. High revenue per person comes from high quality work from everyone. We demand it.

If this role and our work is of interest to you, please apply here. We encourage you to apply even if you believe you do not meet all the requirements listed above.  

That said, you should demonstrate that you are in the 90th percentile or above. This may mean that you have studied in top-notch institutions, won competitions that are intellectually demanding, built something of your own, or rated as an outstanding performer by your current or previous employers. 

The position is based out of Chennai. Our work currently involves significant in-person collaboration and we expect you to be present in the city. We intend to move to a hybrid model in a few months time.