3+ SciPy Jobs in India

Who we are?
Outplay is building the future of sales engagement, a solution that helps sales teams personalize at scale while consistently staying on message and on task, through true multi-channel outreach including email, phone, SMS, chat and social media. Outplay is the only tool your sales team will ever need to crush their goals. Funded by Sequoia - Headquartered in the US. Sequoia not only led a $2 million seed round in Outplay early this year, but also followed with $7.3 million Series - A recently. The team is spread remotely all over the globe.

Perks of being an Outplayer :
• Fully remote job - You can be on the mountains or at the beach, and still work with us. Outplay is a 100% remote company.
• Flexible work hours - We believe mental health is way more important than a 9-5 job.
• Health Insurance - We are a family, and we take care of each other - we provide medical insurance coverage to all employees and their family members. We also provide an additional benefit of doctor consultation along with the insurance plan. 
• Annual company retreat - we work hard, and we party harder.
• Best tools - we buy you the best tools of the trade
• Celebrations - No, we never forget your birthday or anniversary (be it work or wedding) and we never leave an opportunity to celebrate milestones and wins.
• Safe space to innovate and experiment
• Steady career growth and job security

About the Role:
We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to help research, develop and advance the charter of AI at Outplay and push the threshold of conversational intelligence.

Job description :
• Lead AI initiatives that dissects data for creating new feature prototypes and minimum viable products
• Conduct product research in natural language processing, conversation intelligence, and virtual assistant technologies
• Use independent judgment to enhance product by using existing data and building AI/ML models
• Collaborate with teams, provide technical guidance to colleagues and come up with new ideas for rapid prototyping. Convert prototypes into scalable and efficient products.
• Work closely with multiple teams on projects using textual and voice data to build conversational intelligence
• Prototype and demonstrate AI augmented capabilities in the product for customers
• Conduct experiments to assess the precision and recall of language processing modules and study the effect of such experiments on different application areas of sales
• Assist business development teams in the expansion and enhancement of a feature pipeline to support short and long-range growth plans
• Identify new business opportunities and prioritize pursuits of AI for different areas of conversational intelligence
• Build reusable and scalable solutions for use across a varied customer base
• Participate in long range strategic planning activities designed to meet the company’s objectives and revenue goals

Required Skills :
• Bachelors or Masters in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research or related field with focus on applied Machine Learning, AI, NLP and data-driven statistical analysis & modelling.
• 4+ years of experience applying AI/ML/NLP/Deep Learning/ data-driven statistical analysis & modelling solutions to multiple domains. Experience in the Sales and Marketing domain is a plus.
• Experience in building Natural Language Processing (NLP), Conversational Intelligence, and Virtual Assistants based features.
• Excellent grasp on programming languages like Python. Experience in GoLang would be a plus.
• Proficient in analysis using python packages like Pandas, Plotly, Numpy, Scipy, etc.
• Strong and proven programming skills in machine learning and deep learning with experience in frameworks such as TensorFlow/Keras, Pytorch, Transformers, Spark etc
• Excellent communication skills to explain complex solutions to stakeholders across multiple disciplines.
• Experience in SQL, RDBMS, Data Management and Cloud Computing (AWS and/or Azure) is a plus.
• Extensive experience of training and deploying different Machine Learning models
• Experience in monitoring deployed models to proactively capture data drifts, low performing models, etc.
• Exposure to Deep Learning, Neural Networks or related fields
• Passion for solving AI/ML problems for both textual and voice data.
• Fast learner, with great written and verbal communication skills, and be able to work independently as
well as in a team environment

PYTHON, SQL, TensorFlow, NumPy, SciPy, Pandas

Responsibilities

• Partners with business stakeholders to translate business objectives into clearly defined analytical projects.
• Identify opportunities for text analytics and NLP to enhance the core product platform, select the best machine learning techniques for the specific business problem and then build the models that solve the problem.
• Own the end-end process, from recognizing the problem to implementing the solution.
• Define the variables and their inter-relationships and extract the data from our data repositories, leveraging infrastructure including Cloud computing solutions and relational database environments.
• Build predictive models that are accurate and robust and that help our customers to utilize the core platform to the maximum extent.

Skills and Qualification

• 12 to 15 yrs of experience.
• An advanced degree in predictive analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence; or a degree in programming and significant experience with text analytics/NLP. He shall have a strong background in machine learning (unsupervised and supervised techniques). In particular, excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, logistic regression, MLPs, RNNs, etc.
• Experience with text mining, parsing, and classification using state-of-the-art techniques.
• Experience with information retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Natural Language
• Understanding and Neural Language Modeling.
• Ability to evaluate the quality of ML models and to define the right performance metrics for models in accordance with the requirements of the core platform.
• Experience in the Python data science ecosystem: Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, sci-kit-learn, NLTK, Gensim, etc.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, particularly possessing the ability to share technical results and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to perform high-level work both independently and collaboratively as a project member or leader on multiple projects.