Subject Matter Expert (Data Science) at FACE Prep · Coimbatore · 2 - 5 years · ₹5L - ₹8L / yr · Profitable · Posted 3 Oct 2026

Data Science (SME)
FACE Prep is India’s leading employability and industry-aligned education company. For over 17 years, we have partnered with higher education institutions to bridge the gap between academia and industry.
● Worked with 2,000+ colleges and universities across India
● Trained 6+ million students across disciplines
● Market leaders in:
● Employability skills & placement readiness
● Industry-aligned academic papers(credit-bearing)
● Full-scale industry-aligned degree programs with universities
● Pan-India operations, headquartered in Coimbatore
● Young, energetic, mission-driven team
● Fast-growing organization with headcount expected to cross 1,000 employees in the next financial year
At FACE Prep, people are the platform on which outcomes are built.
Position: Data Science (SME)
Location: Coimbatore
Duration: Full-Time
Department: Training & Development
Experience: Minimum 2 Years
Role Description :
The Data Science Subject Matter Expert (SME) is a full-time, on-site role based in Coimbatore. The SME will design and deliver data science curricula, including lectures, hands-on labs, and project-based learning for students preparing for tech careers. Daily responsibilities include creating educational content, developing problem sets and case studies, mentoring learners on data analysis and model-building, and reviewing student work to provide constructive feedback. The SME will collaborate with other trainers and the product team to align content with current industry practices and hiring requirements. The role also involves analyzing learner performance data, refining teaching strategies, and occasionally contributing to workshops, bootcamps, and online learning materials.
Requirements:
• Strong foundation in Statistics and Data Science, with the ability to explain complex concepts clearly and practically.
• Hands-on experience in Data Analytics and Data Analysis, including working with real-world datasets and deriving actionable insights.
• Excellent Analytical Skills for problem-solving, designing assignments, and guiding learners through data-driven decision-making.
• Proficiency in common data science tools and languages (e.g., Python/R, SQL, data visualization tools such as Tableau/Power BI).
• Prior experience in teaching, mentoring, corporate training, or curriculum development is highly beneficial.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, or related discipline.
• Ability to communicate effectively with diverse learner groups and collaborate within a multidisciplinary team.
• Exposure to machine learning concepts, model evaluation, and deployment practices is a plus.
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Strong understanding of Machine Learning algorithms (supervised and unsupervised)
Hands-on experience with Deep Learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar)
Experience in NLP techniques and libraries (NLTK, spaCy, Hugging Face, etc.)
Solid knowledge of Statistics, probability, and data analysis methods
Proficiency in SQL for querying relational databases
Strong programming skills in Python (or similar languages)
Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex concepts simply
Required Qualifications
3+ years of hands-on experience as a Data Scientist or in a similar role.
Strong expertise in classical machine learning and regression modeling.
Solid understanding of statistics, including probability, distributions, hypothesis testing,
and correlation analysis.
Proficiency in Python with libraries such as: scikit-learn pandas NumPy
Experience working with structured/tabular data.
Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking skills.
Ability to clearly explain models and results to non-technical stakeholders.
Hiring for Data Scientist / Senior Data Scientist
Exp : 4 - 12 yrs
Edu : BE/B.tech/MCA
Work Location : Pune
Notice Period : Immediate - 15 days
Skills :
4+ years of experience in data engineering, data science, or related domains.
Hands-on experience with SQL, Python, and distributed data systems.
Knowledge of machine learning techniques and statistical analysis.
Experience with cloud data platforms (Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, GCP BigQuery).
Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD for data pipelines.
Platforms & Operations Experience (Preferred)
- Experience working with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud data tools.
Operational experience with data orchestration tools (Airflow, ADF, Glue).
Understanding of Kubernetes, Docker, or containerized environments.
Hands-on experience with data warehousing platforms (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery).
Experience in monitoring, logging, and alerting operations for data workflows.
Role Overview
As a Data Scientist, you will work with business stakeholders, AI engineers, and domain experts to transform data into actionable insights and intelligent solutions. You will develop machine learning models, perform statistical analysis, and contribute to AI-driven products that create measurable business impact.
Key Responsibilities
Data Science & Machine Learning
- Analyze structured and unstructured data to identify patterns, trends, and business opportunities.
- Perform exploratory data analysis (EDA), feature engineering, and data preparation.
- Develop, evaluate, and optimize machine learning models for prediction, classification, clustering, and forecasting.
- Apply statistical techniques to solve business problems and validate model performance.
- Design and execute experiments to improve model accuracy and business outcomes.
AI Solution Development
- Collaborate with AI Engineers, Data Engineers, and domain experts to build AI-powered solutions.
- Translate business requirements into scalable data science approaches.
- Contribute to Generative AI and advanced analytics initiatives where applicable.
- Document methodologies, model performance, and key findings.
Required Technical Skills
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL for data analysis, feature engineering, and machine learning.
- Strong understanding of Statistics, Probability, Linear Algebra, and Calculus as applied to machine learning and data science.
- Experience with Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA), data preprocessing, feature engineering, feature selection, and handling missing or imbalanced data.
- Good understanding of Supervised, Unsupervised, and Ensemble Machine Learning algorithms, including their assumptions, strengths, limitations, and appropriate use cases.
- Strong knowledge of Regression, Classification, Clustering, Time Series Forecasting, Dimensionality Reduction, Recommendation Systems, and Anomaly Detection techniques.
- Experience with Model Evaluation, Cross-Validation, Hyperparameter Optimization, Bias-Variance Trade-off, Feature Importance, Explainable AI (XAI), and Performance Metrics.
- Understanding of Statistical Inference, Hypothesis Testing, Probability Distributions, Sampling Techniques, Confidence Intervals, and A/B Testing.
- Experience translating business problems into analytical approaches and developing scalable, data-driven solutions.
- Working knowledge of Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Prompt Engineering, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field.
- 2–4 years of experience developing machine learning or data science solutions.
- Experience working on end-to-end data science projects in a business environment.
Nice to Have
- Exposure to Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, or Agentic AI.
- Experience with Computer Vision or Natural Language Processing (NLP).
- Familiarity with cloud-based AI platforms.
- Knowledge of construction, engineering, manufacturing, or industrial domains.
- Participation in hackathons, research, Kaggle competitions, or open-source projects.
Soft Skills
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, effective communication and collaboration, ownership mindset, adaptability, continuous learning, and a passion for innovation.
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Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement machine learning and predictive analytics models.
- Perform data analysis, statistical modeling, and optimization to solve business problems.
- Build demand forecasting and predictive models using time-series and other advanced techniques.
- Work with large datasets using Python, SQL, PySpark, and cloud-based data platforms.
- Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines for ML model development and deployment.
- Implement MLOps practices including model deployment, monitoring, retraining, and data-drift detection.
- Collaborate with software engineers, product teams, and business stakeholders to convert business requirements into analytical solutions.
- Validate models for accuracy, robustness, bias, and production readiness.
- Create meaningful visualizations and communicate analytical insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Required Skills
- Python
- SQL
- Data Science & Machine Learning
- Predictive Modeling
- Statistical Analysis
- Machine Learning Algorithms
- Optimization Techniques
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- BigQuery
- Dataflow
- Dataproc
- Data Fusion
- Cloud SQL
- Airflow
- PySpark
- PostgreSQL
- Terraform
- Tekton
- APIs
- MLOps
Preferred Skill
- Java
Good to Have
- Demand Forecasting
- Time-Series Analysis
- Neural Networks
- Ensemble Methods
- Support Vector Machines (SVM)
- Regression and Cluster Analysis
- ML Model Testing
- Bias Detection and Data Drift Monitoring
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Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related technical field.Master's degree in a relevant quantitative or technical field is preferred.
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WebMD Health Corp., an Internet Brands Company, is the leading provider of health information services, serving patients, physicians, health care professionals, employers, and health plans through our public and private online portals, mobile platforms, and health-focused publications. The WebMD Health Network includes WebMD Health, Medscape, Jobson Healthcare Information, prIME Oncology, MediQuality, Frontline, QxMD, Vitals Consumer Services, MedicineNet, eMedicineHealth, RxList, OnHealth, Medscape Education, and other owned WebMD sites. WebMD®, Medscape®, CME Circle®, Medpulse®, eMedicine®, MedicineNet®, theheart.org®, and RxList® are among the trademarks of WebMD Health Corp. or its subsidiaries. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
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Qualification: Master's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field.
Work Timings: 2 PM to 11 PM IST
Position Requirement:
- Write clean and efficient code in Python and/or R for data analysis, statistical modeling, and machine learning tasks.
- Apply statistical and machine learning techniques to analyze large datasets and extract meaningful patterns, trends, and insights. Develop and implement predictive models for various business applications.
- Formulate hypothesis tests and design experiments to validate assumptions, measure the impact of changes, and optimize decision-making processes.
- Demonstrate strong SQL skills for efficient data querying and manipulation using window functions.
- Work with large datasets and ensure data quality and accuracy.
- Experience with dashboarding tools like Tableau is a plus to visualize and present data-driven insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts and insights in a clear and concise manner to both technical and non-technical audiences. Engage with the leadership team and clients to understand business requirements and provide data-driven solutions.
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- Experience with statistical and data manipulation tools such as Python or R is a must
- Need very good expertise in using Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Excellent presentation skills required
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- Algorithm designing and implementation skills in R or Python is required
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- Minimum 75% marks in graduation
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- Formulate and validate hypotheses through structured analysis and experimentation.
- Build and improve machine learning and anomaly detection solutions.
- Design end-to-end solutions considering data, modelling, engineering, and production constraints.
- Perform root cause analysis across models, data, and systems.
- Work with engineering teams on feature pipelines, model inference, and production deployment.
- Lead technical discussions with clients and communicate recommendations, trade-offs, and expected impact.
- Guide team members on analysis, modelling, and solution design.
- Proactively identify initiatives and roadmap items that can add value to the project.
Requirements:
- Strong foundation in statistics and machine learning.
- Strong hands-on experience with Python and SQL.
- Hands-on experience with Python ML and data frameworks such as Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, TensorFlow/Keras, Dask, Matplotlib, Boto3 SageMaker Python SDK, and Horovod.
- Strong data analysis, hypothesis-generation, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with standard supervised and unsupervised ML techniques.
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- Experience building and deploying production ML solutions.
- Working knowledge of data engineering and real-time / batch inference environments.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to lead technical work and guide cross-functional teams.
Good to Have:
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- Exposure to real-time systems, streaming features, and low-latency data stores.
- Experience in AdTech, e-commerce, gaming, mobile applications, or similar high-volume consumer platforms.
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Responsibilities
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- Conduct end-to-end experiments, including data preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, validation, and deployment.
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Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Data Science or Applied Machine Learning.
- Strong proficiency in Python, SQL, and ML libraries (Pandas, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch).
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Data Scientist – Machine Learning & Applied Analytics.
Location: Bengaluru
Experience: 5–8 Years
Role Type: Full-Time
Business Unit: Products & Platforms (PMG)
Role Overview
We are looking for a Data Scientist – Product Analytics & Machine Learning to help build differentiated analytics and ML capabilities across our product and platform portfolio, including MOBIUS+ and Signate.
This is a hands-on product-focused role responsible for translating real-world customer and domain problems into scalable analytics and machine learning solutions. The role will work across the complete lifecycle — from data exploration and experimentation through model development, validation, productization and production monitoring.
The Data Scientist will also work closely with Tata Elxsi's internal analytics teams, specialist solution providers and academic/research institutions to evaluate, integrate and evolve analytical capabilities as part of our products.
Key Responsibilities
Product Analytics & ML
- Translate product and customer problems into well-defined analytics and ML use cases.
- Perform data exploration, feature engineering, statistical analysis and experimentation.
- Develop, train, validate and optimize machine learning and predictive models.
- Define appropriate model performance metrics, benchmarks and acceptance criteria.
- Convert prototypes and experiments into scalable, production-ready capabilities.
- Work with Product, Architecture and Engineering teams to integrate models and analytics into SaaS products and platforms.
Model Evaluation & Productization
- Evaluate models and analytical solutions developed by internal teams, technology partners and specialist solution providers.
- Assess model assumptions, data requirements, accuracy, robustness, explainability and limitations.
- Benchmark alternative models/approaches and provide evidence-based recommendations.
- Establish practices for model versioning, validation, monitoring, drift detection and continuous improvement.
- Ensure that externally sourced models can be effectively integrated, governed and evolved within the product.
Collaboration & Research
- Collaborate with Tata Elxsi's broader AI, analytics and domain teams and leverage specialist capabilities where required.
- Work technically with external solution providers to understand and integrate their algorithms and models.
- Engage with researchers and academic institutions such as IITs, NITs and IISc on advanced analytics and ML opportunities.
- Evaluate research, algorithms and PoCs and help translate promising approaches into production-grade product capabilities.
- Build reusable analytical assets, datasets, features, evaluation frameworks and know-how across the product portfolio.
Technical Skills
- Strong foundation in statistics, probability, machine learning and data analysis.
- Strong hands-on programming skills in Python and common data science libraries.
- Experience with Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn and relevant ML frameworks.
- Experience developing predictive models using structured and time-series data.
- Understanding of supervised/unsupervised learning, anomaly detection, forecasting, classification and regression techniques.
- Experience with feature engineering, model selection, hyperparameter optimization and model evaluation.
- Good understanding of model explainability, bias, uncertainty and robustness.
- Working knowledge of SQL and large-scale data processing.
- Experience deploying or integrating ML models into production applications through APIs, services or ML pipelines.
- Understanding of MLOps, including model versioning, experiment tracking, monitoring and model lifecycle management.
- Experience with cloud environments, preferably AWS, is desirable.
- Exposure to GenAI/LLMs and their application within product analytics is an advantage.
Product & Engineering Mindset
- Ability to move beyond experimentation and think about how analytics becomes a repeatable product capability.
- Strong problem-solving ability and comfort working with incomplete or imperfect real-world datasets.
- Ability to distinguish between an interesting analytical result and one that creates measurable customer/product value.
- Comfortable working closely with Product Managers, Domain SMEs, Architects and Software Engineers.
- Ability to critically evaluate third-party algorithms and models rather than treating external solutions as black boxes.
- Strong technical communication skills and ability to explain analytical concepts and model outcomes to both technical and business stakeholders.
Preferred Experience
- 5–8 years of relevant experience in Data Science, Machine Learning, Applied Analytics or related roles.
- Experience building ML/analytics capabilities that have been deployed into production products or platforms.
- Experience working with automotive, mobility, connected vehicle, battery/EV, IoT or industrial datasets is desirable but not mandatory.
- Experience collaborating with technology partners, research organizations or academic institutions is an advantage.
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or a related quantitative discipline preferred.
What Success Looks Like
The successful candidate will help PMG establish a strong internal Data Science & ML capability that can build differentiated analytics, intelligently leverage Tata Elxsi's broader capabilities and external specialists, and retain the knowledge and ownership required to continuously evolve analytics as a core part of our products and platforms.










