Senior Data Scientist

Designation: Perception Engineer (3D) 

Experience: 0 years to 8 years 

Position Type: Full Time 

Position Location: Hyderabad 

Compensation: As Per Industry standards 

About Monarch: 

At Monarch, we’re leading the digital transformation of farming. Monarch Tractor augments both muscle and mind with fully loaded hardware, software, and service machinery that will spur future generations of farming technologies. 

With our farmer-first mentality, we are building a smart tractor that will enhance (not replace) the existing farm ecosystem, alleviate labor availability, and cost issues, and provide an avenue for competitive organic and beyond farming by providing mechanical solutions to replace harmful chemical solutions. Despite all the cutting-edge technology we will incorporate, our tractor will still plow, still, and haul better than any other tractor in its class. We have all the necessary ingredients to develop, build and scale the Monarch Tractor and digitally transform farming around the world. 

Description: 

We are looking for engineers to work on applied research problems related to perception in autonomous driving of electric tractors. The team works on classical and deep learning-based techniques for computer vision. Several problems like SFM, SLAM, 3D Image processing, multiple view geometry etc. Are being solved to deploy on resource constrained hardware. 

Technical Skills: 

• Background in Linear Algebra, Probability and Statistics, graphical algorithms and optimization problems is necessary. 
• Solid theoretical background in 3D computer vision, computational geometry, SLAM and robot perception is desired. Deep learning background is optional. 
• Knowledge of some numerical algorithms or libraries among: Bayesian filters, SLAM, Eigen, Boost, g2o, PCL, Open3D, ICP. 
• Experience in two view and multi-view geometry. 
• Necessary Skills: Python, C++, Boost, Computer Vision, Robotics, OpenCV. 
• Academic experience for freshers in Vision for Robotics is preferred.  
• Experienced candidates in Robotics with no prior Deep Learning experience willing to apply their knowledge to vision problems are also encouraged to apply. 
• Software development experience on low-power embedded platforms is a plus. 

Responsibilities: 

• Understanding engineering principles and a clear understanding of data structures and algorithms. 
• Ability to understand, optimize and debug imaging algorithms. 
• Ability to drive a project from conception to completion, research papers to code with disciplined approach to software development on Linux platform. 
• Demonstrate outstanding ability to perform innovative and significant research in the form of technical papers, thesis, or patents. 
• Optimize runtime performance of designed models. 
• Deploy models to production and monitor performance and debug inaccuracies and exceptions. 
• Communicate and collaborate with team members in India and abroad for the fulfillment of your duties and organizational objectives. 
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment and can own the project end to end with minimum hand holding. 
• Learn & adapt to new technologies & skillsets. 
• Work on projects independently with timely delivery & defect free approach. 
• Thesis focusing on the above skill set may be given more preference. 

What you will get: 

At Monarch Tractor, you’ll play a key role on a capable, dedicated, high-performing team of rock stars. Our compensation package includes a competitive salary, excellent health benefits commensurate with the role you’ll play in our success.  

• experience in algorithm development with a focus on signal processing, pattern recognition, machine learning, classification, data mining, and other areas of machine intelligence.
• Ability to analyse data streams from multiple sensors and develop algorithms to extract accurate and meaningful sport metrics.
• Should have a deeper understanding of IMU sensors and Biosensors like HRM, ECG
• A good understanding on Power and memory management on embedded platform

•  Expertise in the design of multitasking, event-driven, real-time firmware using C and understanding of RTOS concepts
• Knowledge of Machine learning, Analytical and methodical approaches to data analysis and verification and Python
• Prior experience on fitness algorithm development using IMU sensor
•  Interest in fitness activities and knowledge of human body anatomy

Data Scientist-

We are looking for an experienced Data Scientists to join our engineering team and

help us enhance our mobile application with data. In this role, we're looking for

people who are passionate about developing ML/AI in various domains that solves

enterprise problems. We are keen on hiring someone who loves working in fast paced start-up environment and looking to solve some challenging engineering

problems.

As one of the earliest members in engineering, you will have the flexibility to design

the models and architecture from ground up. As any early-stage start-up, we expect

you to be comfortable wearing various hats, and be proactive contributor in building

something truly remarkable.

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 like MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, NoSQL, etc. is

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

Responsibilities

> Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers 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

Key Skills

> Hands-on experience of analysis tools like R, Advance Python

> Must Have Knowledge of statistical techniques and machine learning

> algorithms

> Artificial Intelligence

> Understanding of Text analysis- Natural Language processing (NLP)

> Knowledge on Google Cloud Platform

> Advanced Excel, PowerPoint skills

> Advanced communication (written and oral) and strong interpersonal

> skills

> Ability to work cross-culturally

> Good to have Deep Learning

> VBA and visualization tools like Tableau, PowerBI, Qliksense, Qlikview

> will be an added advantage

• Participate in full machine learning Lifecycle including data collection, cleaning, preprocessing to training models, and deploying them to Production.
• Discover data sources, get access to them, ingest them, clean them up, and make them “machine learning ready”. 
• Work with data scientists to create and refine features from the underlying data and build pipelines to train and deploy models. 
• Partner with data scientists to understand and implement machine learning algorithms. 
• Support A/B tests, gather data, perform analysis, draw conclusions on the impact of your models. 
• Work cross-functionally with product managers, data scientists, and product engineers, and communicate results to peers and leaders. 
• Mentor junior team members 

Who we have in mind:

• Graduate in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience. 
• 4+ years of experience in software engineering with 2+ years of direct experience in the machine learning field.
• Proficiency with SQL,  Python, Spark, and basic libraries such as Scikit-learn, NumPy, Pandas.
• Familiarity with deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow or Keras
• Experience with Computer Vision (OpenCV),  NLP frameworks (NLTK, SpaCY, BERT).
• Basic knowledge of machine learning techniques (i.e. classification, regression, and clustering). 
• Understand machine learning principles (training, validation, etc.) 
• Strong hands-on knowledge of data query and data processing tools (i.e. SQL) 
• Software engineering fundamentals: version control systems (i.e. Git, Github) and workflows, and ability to write production-ready code. 
• Experience deploying highly scalable software supporting millions or more users 
• Experience building applications on cloud  (AWS or Azure) 
• Experience working in scrum teams with Agile tools like JIRA
• Strong oral and written communication skills. Ability to explain complex concepts and technical material to non-technical users

We are building a global content marketplace that brings companies and content

creators together to scale up content creation processes across 50+ content verticals and 150+ industries. Over the past 2.5 years, we’ve worked with companies like India Today, Amazon India, Adobe, Swiggy, Dunzo, Businessworld, Paisabazaar, IndiGo Airlines, Apollo Hospitals, Infoedge, Times Group, Digit, BookMyShow, UpGrad, Yulu, YourStory, and 350+ other brands.
Our mission is to become the world’s largest content creation and distribution platform for all kinds of content creators and brands.

Our Team

We are a 25+ member company and is scaling up rapidly in both team size and our ambition.

If we were to define the kind of people and the culture we have, it would be -

a) Individuals with an Extreme Sense of Passion About Work

b) Individuals with Strong Customer and Creator Obsession

c) Individuals with Extraordinary Hustle, Perseverance & Ambition

We are on the lookout for individuals who are always open to going the extra mile and thrive in a fast-paced environment. We are strong believers in building a great, enduring

a company that can outlast its builders and create a massive impact on the lives of our

employees, creators, and customers alike.

Our Investors

We are fortunate to be backed by some of the industry’s most prolific angel investors - Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal (Snapdeal founders), YourStory Media. (Shradha Sharma); Dr. Saurabh Srivastava, Co-founder of IAN and NASSCOM; Slideshare co-founder Amit Ranjan; Indifi's Co-founder and CEO Alok Mittal; Sidharth Rao, Chairman of Dentsu Webchutney; Ritesh Malik, Co-founder and CEO of Innov8; Sanjay Tripathy, former CMO, HDFC Life, and CEO of Agilio Labs; Manan Maheshwari, Co-founder of WYSH; and Hemanshu Jain, Co-founder of Diabeto.
Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners