Data Scientist

at GEP Worldwide

Posted by Archy Singh

JOB DESCRIPTION We're looking for Head, Machine learning (3+ years experience) for our company - Spotmentor Technologies. Right now our Technology team has 5 members and this is a head team member role and carries significant equity with it. We need someone who can lead the Machine learning function with both vision and hands-on work and is excited to use this area to develop B2B products for enterprise productivity. RESPONSIBILITIES • Collaborate with cross-functional team members to develop software libraries, tools, and methodologies as critical components of our computation platforms. • Also responsible for software profiling, performance tuning and analysis, and other general software engineering tasks. • Use independent judgment to take existing code, understand its function, and change/enhance as needed. • Work as a team leader rather than a member. REQUIREMENTS • Proficient in Python with sound knowledge in the machine learning libraries namely Scikit-learn, Numpy, Pandas, NLTK etc. • Experience with Deep Learning tools like TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch etc and integrating using open source learning platforms is required. • Prior experience in building a fully functional Machine Learning Algorithm in the text analysis and multi-class classification with promising results. • Expert data scientist with professionalism in text classification, text analytics, regression and other machine learning algorithms. • Solid grasp of mathematical principles behind machine learning algorithms. • Proficient in using version control tools (Git, Mercurial etc). • Prior experience of using big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark etc. • Semantic Web experience is a big plus. • Should be from tier 1 colleges (IIT’s / NIT’s and BITS).

 Selecting features, building and optimizing models using machine learning techniques  Data mining using state-of-the-art methods  Extending company’s data with third party sources of information when needed  Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems  Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis  Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner  Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance  Adopting new research methodologies including deep learning (CNNs LSTMs)on projects

We are looking for a driven and passionate machine learning engineer with a strong empathy for our users (students and teachers). Key responsibilities - Decide what data are needed to answer specific questions, and determine appropriate methods for finding and collecting this data. - Design experiments to validate collected data and analyse, interpret and discover patterns in this data. - Interact cross-functionally with a wide variety of people including students, teachers and engineers. Requirements - Feel a personal stake in the product. - Strong attention to detail and excellent analytical capabilities. - Experience in designing and implementing various machine learning models. - Deep understanding of core Machine Learning concepts.

Spotmentor is focussed on using the Intelligence-age tools and technologies like AI and Text analytics to create HR technology products which go beyond compliance and ERPs to give HR the power to become strategic, improve business results and increase the competitiveness. The HR and People departments have long sought to become strategic partners with businesses. We are focussed on taking this concept out of the board room meetings and making it a reality and you can be a part of this journey. At the end of it, you would be able to claim that there was an inflection point in History, which changed how business was transacted and you made that happen. Our first product is a Learning and Skill development platform which helps the organisations to acquire capabilities critical for them by helping employees attain their best potential through learning opportunities. Spotmentor was started by 4 IIT Kharagpur alumni with experiences in creating Technology products and Management consulting. We are looking for a Data Scientist who will help discover the information hidden in vast amounts of data, and help us make smarter decisions that benefit the employees of our customer organisations. Your primary focus will be on applying data mining techniques, doing statistical analysis, and building high quality prediction systems using structured and unstructured data. Technical Responsibilities: - Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques - Data mining using state-of-the-art methods - Extending the existing data sets with third party sources of information - Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis - Build recommendation systems - Automate scoring of documents using machine learning techniques Salary: This is a founding team member role with a salary of 20 Lacs to 30 Lacs per year and a meaningful ESOP component. Location: Gurgaon We believe in making Spotmentor the best place for the pursuit of excellence and diversity of opinions is an important tool to achieve that. Although as a startup our primary objective is growth, Spotmentor is focussed on creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can attain their best potential and we welcome female, minority and specially abled candidates to apply.

We're looking for Senior NLP Engineer (2+ years experience) for our company - Spotmentor Technologies. Right now our Technology team has 5 members and this role is for early team member and carries significant ESOPs with it. We need someone who can lead the NLP function with both vision and hands-on work and is excited to use this area to develop B2B products for enterprise productivity.RESPONSIBILITIES----------------------- • Collaborate with cross-functional team members to develop software libraries, tools, and methodologies as critical components of our computation platforms. • Use independent judgment to take existing code, understand its function, and change/enhance as needed. • Work as a team leader rather than a member. • Capable of adding valuable inputs to existing algorithms by reading NLP research papers.REQUIREMENTS-------------------- • Proficient in Python with sound knowledge in the data science libraries namely Numpy, Pandas, NLTK / spaCy etc. • Prior experience in building a fully functional NLP based Machine Learning Model with good results (NER/Classification/Topic Modeling). • Expert data scientist with professionalism in text classification, feature engineering, using embeddings, pos etc. • Knowledge of writing database queries (SQL/NoSQL). • Some background in information retrieval systems is a big plus.

Machine Learning Data Engineer Engineering Gurgaon, Haryana, India Job Description Who are we? BlueOptima provides industry leading objective metrics in software development using it’s proprietary Coding Effort Analytics that enable large organisations to deliver better software, faster, and at lower cost. Founded in 2007, BlueOptima is a profitable, independent, high growth software vendor commercialising technology initially devised in seminal research carried out at Cambridge University. We are headquartered in London with offices in New York, Bangalore, and Gurgaon. BlueOptima’s technology is deployed with global enterprises driving value from their software development activities For example, we work with seven of the world’s top ten Universal Banks (by revenue), three of the world’s top ten telecommunications companies (by revenue, excl. China). Our technology is pushing the limits of complex analytics on large data-sets with more than 15 billion static source code metric observations of software engineers working in an Enterprise software development environment. BlueOptima is an Equal Opportunities employer. Whom are we looking for? BlueOptima has a truly unique collection of vast datasets relating to the changes that software developers make in source code when working in an enterprise software development environment. We are looking for analytically minded individuals with expertise in statistical analysis, Machine Learning and Data Engineering. Who will work on real world problems, unique to the data that we have, develop new algorithms and tools to solve problems. The use of Machine Learning is a growing internal incentive and we have a large range of opportunities, to expand the value that we deliver to our clients. What does the role involve? As a Data Engineer you will be take problems and ideas from both our onsite Data Scientists, analyze what is involved, spec and build intelligent solutions using our data. You will take responsibility for the end to end process. Further to this, you are encouraged to identify new ideas, metrics and opportunities within our dataset and identify and report when an idea or approach isn’t being successful and should be stopped. You will use tools ranging from advance Machine Learning algorithms to Statistical approaches and will be able to select the best tool for the job. Finally, you will support and identify improvements to our existing algorithms and approaches. Responsibilities include: Solve problems using Machine Learning and advanced statistical techniques based on business needs. Identify opportunities to add value and solve problems using Machine Learning across the business. Develop tools to help senior managers identify actionable information based on metrics like BlueOptima Coding Effort and explain the insight they reveal to senior managers to support decision-making. Develop additional & supporting metrics for the BlueOptima product and data predominantly using R and Python and/or similar statistical tools. Producing ad hoc or bespoke analysis and reports. Coordinate with both engineers & client side data-scientists to understand requirements and opportunities to add value. Spec the requirements to solve a problem and identify the critical path and timelines and be able to give clear estimates. Resolve issues and find improvements to existing Machine Learning solution and explain their impacts. ESSENTIAL SKILLS / EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Statistics/Mathematics or equivalent. Minimum of 3+ years experience in developing solutions using Machine learning Algorithms. Strong Analytical skills demonstrated through data engineering or similar experience. Strong fundamentals in Statistical Analysis using R or a similar programming language. Experience apply Machine Learning algorithms and techniques to resolve problems on structured and unstructured data. An in depth understanding of a wide range of Machine Learning techniques, and an understanding of which algorithms are suited to which problems. A drive to not only identify a solution to a technical problem but to see it all the way through to inclusion in a product. Strong written and verbal communication skills Strong interpersonal and time management skills DESIRABLE SKILLS / EXPERIENCE: Experience with automating basic tasks to maximise time for more important problems. Experience with PostgreSQL or similar Rational Database. Experience with MongoDB or similar nosql database. Experience with Data Visualisation experience (via Tableau, Qlikview, SAS BI or similar) is preferable. Experience using task tracking systems e.g. Jira and distributed version control systems e.g. Git. Be comfortable explaining very technical concepts to non-expert people. Experience of project management and designing processes to deliver successful outcomes. Why work for us? Work with a unique a truly vast collection of datasets Above market remuneration Stimulating challenges that fully utilise your skills Work on real-world technical problems to which solution cannot simply be found on the internet Working alongside other passionate, talented engineers Hardware of your choice Our fast-growing company offers the potential for rapid career progression

About UpGrad : About us: UpGrad is an online education platform building the careers of tomorrow by offering the most industry-relevant programs in an immersive learning experience. Our mission is to create a new digital-first learning experience to deliver tangible career impact to individuals at scale. UpGrad currently offers programs in Data Analytics, Product Management, Digital Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, and was rated as one of the top 10 most innovative companies in India for 2017 - https://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/2017/sectors/india . We plan to launch 6 more programs in technology and management education. UpGrad is co-founded by 3 IITD alumni, and the 4th co-founder is serial entrepreneur Ronnie Screwvala. UpGrad has a committed capital of 100Cr and in the first year of operations, has built the largest revenue generating online program in India (PG Diploma in Data Analytics) and the largest enrolment online program in India (Startup India learning program). UpGrad is looking for people passionate about management and education to help design learning programs for working professionals to stay sharp and stay relevant and help build the careers of tomorrow. Position : Senior Data Scientist Position Type : Full Time Location : Mumbai Job Description: Are you excited by the challenge and the opportunity of applying data-science and data-analytics techniques to the fast developing education technology domain? Do you look forward to, the sense of ownership and achievement that comes with innovating and creating data products from scratch and pushing it live into Production systems? Do you want to work with a team of highly motivated members who are on a mission to empower individuals through education? If this is you, come join us and become a part of the UpGrad technology team. At UpGrad the technology team enables all the facets of the business - whether it’s bringing efficiency to our marketing and sales initiatives, to enhancing our student learning experience, to empowering our content, delivery and student success teams, to aiding our student’s for their desired career outcomes. We play the part of bringing together data & tech to solve these business problems and opportunities at hand. We are looking for an highly skilled, experienced and passionate data-scientist who can come on-board and help create the next generation of data-powered education tech product. The ideal candidate would be someone who has worked in a Data Science role before wherein he/she is comfortable working with unknowns, evaluating the data and the feasibility of applying scientific techniques to business problems and products, and have a track record of developing and deploying data-science models into live applications. Someone with a strong math, stats, data-science background, comfortable handling data (structured+unstructured) as well as strong engineering know-how to implement/support such data products in Production environment. Ours is a highly iterative and fast-paced environment, hence being flexible, communicating well and attention-to-detail are very important too. The ideal candidate should be passionate about the customer impact and comfortable working with multiple stakeholders across the company. Basic Qualifications: 3+ years of experience in analytics, data science, machine learning or comparable role Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science/Data Analytics, Math/Statistics or related discipline Experience in building and deploying Machine Learning models in Production systems Strong analytical skills: ability to make sense out of a variety of data and its relation/applicability to the business problem or opportunity at hand Strong programming skills: comfortable with Python - pandas, numpy, scipy, matplotlib; Databases - SQL and noSQL Strong communication skills: ability to both formulate/understand the business problem at hand as well as ability to discuss with non data-science background stakeholders Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives Preferred Qualifications: Experience in Text Analytics, Natural Language Processing Advanced degree in Data Science/Data Analytics or Math/Statistics Comfortable with data-visualization tools and techniques Knowledge of AWS and Data Warehousing Passion for building data-products for Production systems - a strong desire to impact the product through data-science techniques

Position Description Demonstrates up-to-date expertise in Software Engineering and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans Models compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions Provides support to the business Troubleshoots business, production issues and on call support. Minimum Qualifications BS/MS in Computer Science or related field 5+ years’ experience building web applications Solid understanding of computer science principles Excellent Soft Skills Understanding the major algorithms like searching and sorting Strong skills in writing clean code using languages like Java and J2EE technologies. Understanding how to engineer the RESTful, Micro services and knowledge of major software patterns like MVC, Singleton, Facade, Business Delegate Deep knowledge of web technologies such as HTML5, CSS, JSON Good understanding of continuous integration tools and frameworks like Jenkins Experience in working with the Agile environments, like Scrum and Kanban. Experience in dealing with the performance tuning for very large-scale apps. Experience in writing scripting using Perl, Python and Shell scripting. Experience in writing jobs using Open source cluster computing frameworks like Spark Relational database design experience- MySQL, Oracle, SOLR, NoSQL - Cassandra, Mango DB and Hive. Aptitude for writing clean, succinct and efficient code. Attitude to thrive in a fun, fast-paced start-up like environment

Description Must have Direct Hands- on, 4 years of experience, building complex Data Science solutions Must have fundamental knowledge of Inferential Statistics Should have worked on Predictive Modelling, using Python / R Experience should include the following, File I/ O, Data Harmonization, Data Exploration Machine Learning Techniques (Supervised, Unsupervised) Multi- Dimensional Array Processing Deep Learning NLP, Image Processing Prior experience in Healthcare Domain, is a plus Experience using Big Data, is a plus Should have Excellent Analytical, Problem Solving ability. Should be able to grasp new concepts quickly Should be well familiar with Agile Project Management Methodology Should have excellent written and verbal communication skills Should be a team player with open mind

Description Does solving complex business problems and real world challenges interest you Do you enjoy seeing the impact your contributions make on a daily basis Are you passionate about using data analytics to provide game changing solutions to the Global 2000 clients Do you thrive in a dynamic work environment that constantly pushes you to be the best you can be and more Are you ready to work with smart colleagues who drive for excellence in everything they do If you possess a solutions mindset, strong analytical skills, and commitment to be part of a tremendous journey, come join our growing, global team. See what Saama can do for your career and for your journey. Position: Data Scientist (2255) Location: Hinjewadi Phase 1, Pune Type: Permanent Full time Responsibilities: Work on small and large data sets of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data to discover hidden knowledge about the client s business and develop methods to leverage that knowledge for their business. Identify and solve business challenges working closely with cross-functional teams, such as Delivery, Business Consulting, Engineering and Product Management. Develop prescriptive and predictive statistical, behavioral or other models via machine learning and/ or traditional statistical modeling techniques, and understand which type of model applies best in a given business situation. Drive the collection of new data and the refinement of existing data sources. Analyze and interpret the results of product experiments. Provide input for engineering and product teams as they develop and support our internal data platform to support ongoing statistical analyses. Requirements: Candidates should demonstrate following expertize- Must have Direct Hands-on, 7 years of experience, building complex systems using any Statistical Programming Language (R / Python / SAS) Must have fundamental knowledge of Inferential Statistics Should have worked on Predictive Modelling Experience should include the following, o File I/ O, Data Harmonization, Data Exploration o Multi-Dimensional Array Processing o Simulation & Optimization Techinques o Machine Learning Techniques (Supervised, Unsupervised) o Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning o Natural Language Processing o Model Ensembling Techniques o Documenting Reproducible Research o Building Interactive Applications to demonstrate Data Science Use Cases Prior experience in Healthcare Domain, is a plus Experience using Big Data, is a plus. Exposure to SPARK is desirable Should have Excellent Analytical, Problem Solving ability. Should be able to grasp new concepts quickly Should be well familiar with Agile Project Management Methodology Should have experience of managing multiple simultaneous projects Should have played a team lead role Should have excellent written and verbal communication skills Should be a team player with open mind Impact on the business: Plays an important role in making Saama s Solutions game changers for our strategic partners by using data science to solve core, complex business challenges. Key relationships: Sales & pre-sales Product management Engineering Client organization: account management & delivery Saama Competencies: INTEGRITY: we do the right things. INNOVATION: we change the game. TRANSPARENCY: we communicate openly COLLABORATION: we work as one team PROBLEM-SOLVING: we solve core, complex business challenges ENJOY & CELEBRATE: we have fun Competencies: Self-starter who gets results with minimal support and direction in a fast-paced environment. Takes initiative; challenges the status quo to drive change. Learns quickly; takes smart risks to experiment and learn. Works well with others; builds trust and maintains credibility. Planful: identifies and confirms key requirements in dynamic environments; anticipates tasks and contingencies. Communicates effectively; productive communication with clients and all key stakeholders communication in both verbal and written communication. Stays the course despite challenges & setbacks. Works well under pressure. Strong analytical skills; able to apply inductive and deductive thinking to generate solutions for complex problems