Machine Learning - Software Engineer

Requirement understanding and elicitation, analysis, data/workflows, contribution to product

projects and Proof of concept (POC)

 Contribute to preparing design documents and effort estimations.

 Develop AI/ML Models using best-in-class ML models.

 Building, testing, and deploying AI/ML solutions.

 Work with Business Analysts and Product Managers to assist with defining functional user

stories.

 Ensure deliverables across teams are of high quality and documented. 

 Recommend best ML practices/Industry standards for any ML use case.

 Proactively take up R and D and recommend solution options for any ML use case.

Responsibilities

Researches, develops and maintains machine learning and statistical models for

business requirements

Work across the spectrum of statistical modelling including supervised,

unsupervised, & deep learning techniques to apply the right level of solution to

the right problem Coordinate with different functional teams to monitor outcomes and refine/

improve the machine learning models Implements models to uncover patterns and predictions creating business value and innovation

Identify unexplored data opportunities for the business to unlock and maximize

the potential of digital data within the organization

Develop NLP concepts and algorithms to classify and summarize structured/unstructured text data

Qualifications

3+ years of experience solving complex business problems using machine

learning.

Fluency in programming languages such as Python, NLP and Bert, is a must

Strong analytical and critical thinking skills

Experience in building production quality models using state-of-the-art technologies 

Familiarity with databases .

desirable Ability to collaborate on projects and work independently when required.

Previous experience in Fintech/payments domain is a bonus

You should have Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics

or Mathematics or another quantitative field from a top tier Institute

• Building out and manage a young data science vertical within the organization

• Provide technical leadership in the areas of machine learning, analytics, and data sciences

• Work with the team and create a roadmap to solve the company’s requirements by solving data-mining, analytics, and ML problems by Identifying business problems that could be solved using Data Science and scoping it out end to end.

• Solve business problems by applying advanced Machine Learning algorithms and complex statistical models on large volumes of data.

• Develop heuristics, algorithms, and models to deanonymize entities on public blockchains

• Data Mining - Extend the organization’s proprietary dataset by introducing new data collection methods and by identifying new data sources.

• Keep track of the latest trends in cryptocurrency usage on open-web and dark-web and develop counter-measures to defeat concealment techniques used by criminal actors.

• Develop in-house algorithms to generate risk scores for blockchain transactions.

• Work with data engineers to implement the results of your work.

• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.

• Build, scale and deploy holistic data science products after successful prototyping.

• Clearly articulate and present recommendations to business partners, and influence future plans based on insights.

• >8+ years of relevant experience as a Data Scientist or Analyst. A few years of work experience solving NLP problems or other ML problems is a plus

• Must have previously managed a team of at least 5 data scientists or analysts or demonstrate that they have prior experience in scaling a data science function from the ground 

• Good understanding of python, bash scripting, and basic cloud platform skills (on GCP or AWS)

• Excellent communication skills and analytical skills

• Work closely with the Founders in helping grow the organization to the next level alongside some of the best and brightest talents around you

• An excellent culture, we encourage collaboration, growth, and learning amongst the team

• Competitive salary and equity

• An autonomous and flexible role where you will be trusted with key tasks.

• An opportunity to have a real impact and be part of a company with purpose.

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.

• Work closely with your business to identify issues and use data to propose solutions for effective decision making
• Build algorithms and design experiments to merge, manage, interrogate and extract data to supply tailored reports to colleagues, customers or the wider organisation.
• Creating and using advanced machine learning algorithms and statistics: regression, simulation, scenario analysis, modeling, clustering, decision trees, neural networks, etc
• Querying databases and using statistical computer languages: R, Python, SLQ, etc.
• Visualizing/presenting data through various Dashboards for Data Analysis, Using Python Dash, Flask etc.
• Test data mining models to select the most appropriate ones for use on a project
• Work in a POSIX/UNIX environment to run/deploy applications
• Mine and analyze data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of product development, marketing techniques and business strategies.
• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets.
• Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, ad targeting and other business outcomes.
• Assess the effectiveness of data sources and data-gathering techniques and improve data collection methods
• Horizon scan to stay up to date with the latest technology, techniques and methods
• Coordinate with different functional teams to implement models and monitor outcomes.
• Stay curious and enthusiastic about using algorithms to solve problems and enthuse others to see the benefit of your work.

• Able to create algorithms to extract information from large data sets
• Strong knowledge of Python, R, Java or another scripting/statistical languages to automate data retrieval, manipulation and analysis.
• Experience with extracting and aggregating data from large data sets using SQL or other tools
• Strong understanding of various NLP, and NLU techniques like Named Entity Recognition, Summarization, Topic Modeling, Text Classification, Lemmatization and Stemming.
• Knowledge and experience in statistical and data mining techniques: GLM/Regression, Random Forest, Boosting, Trees, etc.
• Experience with Python libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Scikit-Learn
• Experience with Jupyter / Pandas / Numpy to manipulate and analyse data
• Knowledge of Machine Learning techniques and their respective pros and cons
• Strong Knowledge of various Data Science Visualization Tools like Tableau, PowerBI, D3, Plotly, etc.
• Experience using web services: Redshift, AWS, S3, Spark, DigitalOcean, etc.
• Proficiency in using query languages, such as SQL, Spark DataFrame API, etc.
• Hands-on experience in HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery and Prototyping.
• Hands-on experience on C#, Javascript, .Net
• Experience in understanding and analyzing data using statistical software (e.g., Python, R, KDB+ and other relevant libraries)
• Experienced in building applications that meet enterprise needs – secure, scalable, loosely coupled design
• Strong knowledge of computer science, algorithms, and design patterns
• Strong oral and written communication, and other soft skills critical to collaborating and engage with teams

•  3+ years of experience in Machine Learning
• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Engineering/Science.
• Bachelors/Masters in Engineering/Mathematics/Statistics with sound knowledge of programming and computer concepts.
• 10 and 12th acedemics 70 % & above.

Skills :
 - Strong Python/ programming skills
 - Good conceptual understanding of Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Natural Language            Processing
 - Strong verbal and written communication skills.
 - Should be able to manage team, meet project deadlines and interface with clients.
 - Should be able to work across different domains and quickly ramp up the business                   processes & flows & translate business problems into the data solutions