Data Scientist at Propellor.ai · Remote only · 2 - 5 years · ₹5L - ₹15L / yr · Raised funding · Remote only · Posted 19 Apr 2023

Job Description: Data Scientist
At Propellor.ai, we derive insights that allow our clients to make scientific decisions. We believe in demanding more from the fields of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Business Logic. Combine these and we show our clients a 360-degree view of their business. In this role, the Data Scientist will be expected to work on Procurement problems along with a team-based across the globe.
We are a Remote-First Company.
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What will help you be successful in this role
- Articulate
- High Energy
- Passion to learn
- High sense of ownership
- Ability to work in a fast-paced and deadline-driven environment
- Loves technology
- Highly skilled at Data Interpretation
- Problem solver
- Ability to narrate the story to the business stakeholders
- Generate insights and the ability to turn them into actions and decisions
Skills to work in a challenging, complex project environment
- Need you to be naturally curious and have a passion for understanding consumer behavior
- A high level of motivation, passion, and high sense of ownership
- Excellent communication skills needed to manage an incredibly diverse slate of work, clients, and team personalities
- Flexibility to work on multiple projects and deadline-driven fast-paced environment
- Ability to work in ambiguity and manage the chaos
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze data to unlock insights: Ability to identify relevant insights and actions from data. Use regression, cluster analysis, time series, etc. to explore relationships and trends in response to stakeholder questions and business challenges.
- Bring in experience for AI and ML: Bring in Industry experience and apply the same to build efficient and optimal Machine Learning solutions.
- Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) and Generate Insights: Analyse internal and external datasets using analytical techniques, tools, and visualization methods. Ensure pre-processing/cleansing of data and evaluate data points across the enterprise landscape and/or external data points that can be leveraged in machine learning models to generate insights.
- DS and ML Model Identification and Training: Identity, test, and train machine learning models that need to be leveraged for business use cases. Evaluate models based on interpretability, performance, and accuracy as required. Experiment and identify features from datasets that will help influence model outputs. Determine what models will need to be deployed, data points that need to be fed into models, and aid in the deployment and maintenance of models.
Technical Skills
An enthusiastic individual with the following skills. Please do not hesitate to apply if you do not match all of them. We are open to promising candidates who are passionate about their work, fast learners and are team players.
- Strong experience with machine learning and AI including regression, forecasting, time series, cluster analysis, classification, Image recognition, NLP, Text Analytics and Computer Vision.
- Strong experience with advanced analytics tools for Object-oriented/object function scripting using languages such as Python, or similar.
- Strong experience with popular database programming languages including SQL.
- Strong experience in Spark/Pyspark
- Experience in working in Databricks
What are the company benefits you get, when you join us as?
- Permanent Work from Home Opportunity
- Opportunity to work with Business Decision Makers and an internationally based team
- The work environment that offers limitless learning
- A culture void of any bureaucracy, hierarchy
- A culture of being open, direct, and with mutual respect
- A fun, high-caliber team that trusts you and provides the support and mentorship to help you grow
- The opportunity to work on high-impact business problems that are already defining the future of Marketing and improving real lives
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Whom will you work with?
You will closely work with other Senior Data Scientists and Data Engineers.
Immediate to 15-day Joiners will be preferred.

About Propellor.ai
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Who we are
At Propellor, we are passionate about solving Data Unification challenges faced by our clients. We build solutions using the latest tech stack. We believe all solutions lie in the congruence of Business, Technology, and Data Science. Combining the 3, our team of young Data professionals solves some real-world problems. Here's what we live by:
Skin in the game
We believe that Individual and Collective success orientations both propel us ahead.
Cross Fertility
Borrowing from and building on one another’s varied perspectives means we are always viewing business problems with a fresh lens.
Sub 25's
A bunch of young turks, who keep our explorer mindset alive and kicking.
Future-proofing
Keeping an eye ahead, we are upskilling constantly, staying relevant at any given point in time.
Tech Agile
Tech changes quickly. Whatever your stack, we adapt speedily and easily.
If you are evaluating us to be your next employer, we urge you to read more about our team and culture here: https://bit.ly/3ExSNA2. We assure you, it's worth a read!
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