Senior Data Scientist

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game publishers and developers, with well over 750 million downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Traffic Cop 3D and Makeover Studio 3D. Alongside this, we also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS!, Eternal Hope and Die by the Blade. 

With a team of talented people collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, the Philippines and many more places, we have a truly global team making games for a global audience. And it’s paying off: Kwalee games have been downloaded in every country on earth! If you think you’re a good fit for one of our remote vacancies, we want to hear from you wherever you are based.

Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters for many years, our team also includes legends such as Andrew Graham (creator of Micro Machines series) and Jason Falcus (programmer of classics including NBA Jam) alongside a growing and diverse team of global gaming experts. Everyone contributes creatively to Kwalee’s success, with all employees eligible to pitch their own game ideas on Creative Wednesdays, and we’re proud to have built our success on this inclusive principle. Could your idea be the next global hit?

What’s the job?

As a Data Scientist you will help utilise masses of data generated by Kwalee players all over the world to solve complex problems using cutting edge techniques.   

What you tell your friends you do 

"My models optimise the performance of Kwalee games and advertising every day!”

What you will really be doing 

• Building intelligent systems which generate value from the data which our players and marketing activities produce.
• Leveraging statistical modelling and machine learning techniques to perform automated decision making on a large scale.
• Developing complex, multi-faceted and highly valuable data products which fuel the growth of Kwalee and our games.
• Owning and managing data science projects from concept to deployment.
• Collaborating with key stakeholders across the company to develop new products and avenues of research.

How you will be doing this

• You’ll be part of an agile, multidisciplinary and creative team and work closely with them to ensure the best results.
• You'll think creatively and be motivated by challenges and constantly striving for the best.
• You’ll work with cutting edge technology, if you need software or hardware to get the job done efficiently, you will get it. We even have a robot!

Team

Our talented team is our signature. We have a highly creative atmosphere with more than 200 staff where you’ll have the opportunity to contribute daily to important decisions. You’ll work within an extremely experienced, passionate and diverse team, including David Darling and the creator of the Micro Machines video games.

Skills and Requirements

• A degree in a numerically focussed degree discipline such as, Maths, Physics, Economics, Chemistry, Engineering, Biological Sciences
• A record of outstanding contribution to data science projects.
• Experience using Python for data analysis and visualisation.
• A good understanding of a deep learning framework such as Tensorflow.
• Experience manipulating data in SQL and/or NoSQL databases

We offer

• We want everyone involved in our games to share our success, that’s why we have a generous team profit sharing scheme from day 1 of employment
• In addition to a competitive salary we also offer private medical cover and life assurance
• Creative Wednesdays!(Design and make your own games every Wednesday)
• 20 days of paid holidays plus bank holidays 
• Hybrid model available depending on the department and the role
• Relocation support available 
• Great work-life balance with flexible working hours
• Quarterly team building days - work hard, play hard!
• Monthly employee awards
• Free snacks, fruit and drinks

Our philosophy

We firmly believe in creativity and innovation and that a fundamental requirement for a successful and happy company is having the right mix of individuals. With the right people in the right environment anything and everything is possible.

Kwalee makes games to bring people, their stories, and their interests together. As an employer, we’re dedicated to making sure that everyone can thrive within our team by welcoming and supporting people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances. With the inclusion of diverse voices in our teams, we bring plenty to the table that’s fresh, fun and exciting; it makes for a better environment and helps us to create better games for everyone! This is how we move forward as a company – because these voices are the difference that make all the difference.

Job Title – Data Scientist (Forecasting)

Anicca Data is seeking a Data Scientist (Forecasting) who is motivated to apply his/her/their skill set to solve complex and challenging problems. The focus of the role will center around applying deep learning models to real-world applications.  The candidate should have experience in training, testing deep learning architectures.  This candidate is expected to work on existing codebases or write an optimized codebase at Anicca Data. The ideal addition to our team is self-motivated, highly organized, and a team player who thrives in a fast-paced environment with the ability to learn quickly and work independently.

 

Job Location: Remote (for time being) and Bangalore, India (post-COVID crisis)

 

• At least 3+ years of experience in a Data Scientist role
• Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or similar quantitative discipline. D. will add merit to the application process
• Experience with large data sets, big data, and analytics
• Exposure to statistical modeling, forecasting, and machine learning. Deep theoretical and practical knowledge of deep learning, machine learning, statistics, probability, time series forecasting
• Training Machine Learning (ML) algorithms in areas of forecasting and prediction
• Experience in developing and deploying machine learning solutions in a cloud environment (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) for production systems
• Research and enhance existing in-house, open-source models, integrate innovative techniques, or create new algorithms to solve complex business problems
• Experience in translating business needs into problem statements, prototypes, and minimum viable products
• Experience managing complex projects including scoping, requirements gathering, resource estimations, sprint planning, and management of internal and external communication and resources
• Write C++ and Python code along with TensorFlow, PyTorch to build and enhance the platform that is used for training ML models

Preferred Experience

• Worked on forecasting projects – both classical and ML models
• Experience with training time series forecasting methods like Moving Average (MA) and Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) with Neural Networks (NN) models as Feed-forward NN and Nonlinear Autoregressive
• Strong background in forecasting accuracy drivers
• Experience in Advanced Analytics techniques such as regression, classification, and clustering
• Ability to explain complex topics in simple terms, ability to explain use cases and tell stories

Founders are the alumnus of IIT-D, IIM-B and Wharton. They’ve 12+ years of experience as Venture capital and corporate entrepreneurship at DFJ, Vertex, InMobi and VP at Snyder UAE, investment banking at Unitus Capital - leading the financial services practice, and institutional equities at Kotak. They’ve a team of high-quality professionals coming together for this mission to disrupt the convention. AsData Scientist, you will develop a first of its kind risk engine for revenue-based financing in India and automating investment appraisals for the company's different revenue-based financing products

What you will do:

 

 

Desired Candidate Profile

 

What you need to have:

•  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

Simplilearn.com is the world’s largest professional certifications company and an Onalytica Top 20 influential brand. With a library of 400+ courses, we've helped 500,000+ professionals advance their careers, delivering $5 billion in pay raises. Simplilearn has over 6500 employees worldwide and our customers include Fortune 1000 companies, top universities, leading agencies and hundreds of thousands of working professionals. We are growing over 200% year on year and having fun doing it. Description We are looking for candidates with strong technical skills and proven track record in building predictive solutions for enterprises. This is a very challenging role and provides an opportunity to work on developing insights based Ed-Tech software products used by large set of customers across globe. It provides an exciting opportunity to work across various advanced analytics & data science problem statement using cutting-edge modern technologies collaborating with product, marketing & sales teams. Responsibilities • Work on enterprise level advanced reporting requirements & data analysis. • Solve various data science problems customer engagement, dynamic pricing, lead scoring, NPS improvement, optimization, chatbots etc. • Work on data engineering problems utilizing our tech stack - S3 Datalake, Spark, Redshift, Presto, Druid, Airflow etc. • Collect relevant data from source systems/Use crawling and parsing infrastructure to put together data sets. • Craft, conduct and analyse A/B experiments to evaluate machine learning models/algorithms. • Communicate findings and take algorithms/models to production with ownership. Desired Skills • BE/BTech/MSc/MS in Computer Science or related technical field. • 2-5 years of experience in advanced analytics discipline with solid data engineering & visualization skills. • Strong SQL skills and BI skills using Tableau & ability to perform various complex analytics in data. • Ability to propose hypothesis and design experiments in the context of specific problems using statistics & ML algorithms. • Good overlap with Modern Data processing framework such as AWS-lambda, Spark using Scala or Python. • Dedication and diligence in understanding the application domain, collecting/cleaning data and conducting various A/B experiments. • Bachelor Degree in Statistics or, prior experience with Ed-Tech is a plus

Key Responsibilities:• Apply Data Mining/ Data Analysis methods using a variety of data tools, building andimplementing models using algorithms and creating/ running simulations to drive optimisation and improvement across business functions• Assess accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques• PerformExploratory Data Analysis, detailed analysis of business problems and technical environments indesigning the solution• Apply Supervised, Unsupervised, Reinforcement Learning and Deep Learning algorithms• Apply advanced Machine Learning Algorithms and Statistics:o Regression, Simulation, Scenario Analysiso Time Series Modellingo Classification -Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, SVM, KNN, Naive Bayeso Clustering, K-Means, Aprioprio Ensemble Models -Random Forest, Boosting, Baggingo Neural Networks• Lead and manage Proof of Concepts and demonstrate the outcomes quickly• Document use cases, solutions and recommendations• Work analytically in a problem-solving environment• Work in a fast-paced agile development environment• Coordinate with different functional teams to implement models and monitor outcomes• Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging organisationdata and apply Predictive Modelling techniques to gain insights across businessfunctions -Operations,Products, Sales, Marketing, HR and Finance teams• Help program and project managers in the design, planning and governance of implementing DataScience solutions

(Senior) Data Scientist Job Description

About us
DataWeave provides Retailers and Brands with “Competitive Intelligence as a Service” that enables them to take key decisions that impact their revenue. Powered by AI, we provide easily consumable and actionable competitive intelligence by aggregating and analyzing billions of publicly available data points on the Web to help businesses develop data-driven strategies and make smarter decisions.

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We the Data Science team at DataWeave (called Semantics internally) build the core machine learning backend and structured domain knowledge needed to deliver insights through our data products. Our underpinnings are: innovation, business awareness, long term thinking, and pushing the envelope. We are a fast paced labs within the org applying the latest research in Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and Deep Learning to hard problems in different domains.

How we work?
It's hard to tell what we love more, problems or solutions! Every day, we choose to address some of the hardest data problems that there are. We are in the business of making sense of messy public data on the web. At serious scale! 

What do we offer?
● Some of the most challenging research problems in NLP and Computer Vision. Huge text and image
datasets that you can play with!
● Ability to see the impact of your work and the value you're adding to our customers almost immediately.
● Opportunity to work on different problems and explore a wide variety of tools to figure out what really
excites you.
● A culture of openness. Fun work environment. A flat hierarchy. Organization wide visibility. Flexible
working hours.
● Learning opportunities with courses and tech conferences. Mentorship from seniors in the team.
● Last but not the least, competitive salary packages and fast paced growth opportunities.

Who are we looking for?
The ideal candidate is a strong software developer or a researcher with experience building and shipping production grade data science applications at scale. Such a candidate has keen interest in liaising with the business and product teams to understand a business problem, and translate that into a data science problem.

You are also expected to develop capabilities that open up new business productization opportunities.

We are looking for someone with a Master's degree and 1+ years of experience working on problems in NLP or Computer Vision.

If you have 4+ years of relevant experience with a Master's degree (PhD preferred), you will be considered for a senior role.

Key problem areas
● Preprocessing and feature extraction noisy and unstructured data -- both text as well as images.
● Keyphrase extraction, sequence labeling, entity relationship mining from texts in different domains.
● Document clustering, attribute tagging, data normalization, classification, summarization, sentiment
analysis.
● Image based clustering and classification, segmentation, object detection, extracting text from images,
generative models, recommender systems.
● Ensemble approaches for all the above problems using multiple text and image based techniques.

Relevant set of skills
● Have a strong grasp of concepts in computer science, probability and statistics, linear algebra, calculus,
optimization, algorithms and complexity.
● Background in one or more of information retrieval, data mining, statistical techniques, natural language
processing, and computer vision.
● Excellent coding skills on multiple programming languages with experience building production grade
systems. Prior experience with Python is a bonus.
● Experience building and shipping machine learning models that solve real world engineering problems.
Prior experience with deep learning is a bonus.
● Experience building robust clustering and classification models on unstructured data (text, images, etc).
Experience working with Retail domain data is a bonus.
● Ability to process noisy and unstructured data to enrich it and extract meaningful relationships.
● Experience working with a variety of tools and libraries for machine learning and visualization, including
numpy, matplotlib, scikit-learn, Keras, PyTorch, Tensorflow.
● Use the command line like a pro. Be proficient in Git and other essential software development tools.
● Working knowledge of large-scale computational models such as MapReduce and Spark is a bonus.
● Be a self-starter—someone who thrives in fast paced environments with minimal ‘management’.
● It's a huge bonus if you have some personal projects (including open source contributions) that you work
on during your spare time. Show off some of your projects you have hosted on GitHub.

Role and responsibilities
● Understand the business problems we are solving. Build data science capability that align with our product strategy.
● Conduct research. Do experiments. Quickly build throw away prototypes to solve problems pertaining to the Retail domain.
● Build robust clustering and classification models in an iterative manner that can be used in production.
● Constantly think scale, think automation. Measure everything. Optimize proactively.
● Take end to end ownership of the projects you are working on. Work with minimal supervision.
● Help scale our delivery, customer success, and data quality teams with constant algorithmic improvements and automation.
● Take initiatives to build new capabilities. Develop business awareness. Explore productization opportunities.
● Be a tech thought leader. Add passion and vibrance to the team. Push the envelope. Be a mentor to junior members of the team.
● Stay on top of latest research in deep learning, NLP, Computer Vision, and other relevant areas.

About the job: - You will architect, code and deploy ML models (from scratch) to predict credit risk. - You will design, run, and analyze A/B and multivariate tests to test hypotheses aimed at optimizing user experience and portfolio risk. - You will perform data exploration and build statistical models on user behavior to discover opportunities for decreasing user defaults. And you must truly be excited about this part. - You’ll use behavioral and social data to gain insights into how humans make financial choices - You will spend a lot of time in building out predictive features from super sparse data sources. - You’ll continually acquire new data sources to develop a rich dataset that characterizes risk. - You will code, drink, breathe and live python, sklearn and pandas. It’s good to have experience in these but not a necessity - as long as you’re super comfortable in a language of your choice. About you: - You’ve strong computer science fundamentals - You’ve strong understanding of ML algorithms - Ideally, you have 2+ years of experience in using ML in industry environment - You know how to run tests and understand their results from a statistical perspective - You love freedom and hate being micromanaged. You own products end to end - You have a strong desire to learn and use the latest machine learning algorithms - It will be great if you have one of the following to share - a kaggle or a github profile - Degree in statistics/quant/engineering from Tier-1 institutes.

We are looking for data scientist with some coding skill