Data Scientist

13 Feb Data Scientist

Data Scientist

Location: Salt Lake City, UT w/potential remote work – but travel to Irvine, CA  – company will pay for travel

Our Company’s mission is to support the entire marketing lifecycle
of small businesses, by giving them the tools and web/mobile presence to succeed.
Company is seeking a Lead Data Scientist, who will oversee the execution of data projects,
including mining and updating the company’s core database, as well as driving the Advanced
Analytics strategy for internal and external lead flow. This role will report directly to the CTO.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
● Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
● Data mining using state-of-the-art methods.
● Collaborate with cross-functional agile teams of software engineers, domain experts,
and others to build new product features for multiple business units.
● Collaborate with data scientists across a variety of businesses to prioritize and promote
our machine learning efforts.
● Extending company’s data with third party sources of information when needed.
● Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis.
● Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner.
● Apply machine learning, collaborative filtering, NLP, and deep learning methods to
massive data sets.

Experience / Skills
● B.S., M.S. or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Science,
Mathematics, Statistics, Electrical Engineering, Physics or related fields or equivalent
experience.
● Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, as well as
creation and implementation of patterns for AI.
● Experience with common data science toolkits, such as R and Tensorflow.
● Experience with database management tools, such as Toad.
● 5+ years of software development experience, and/or heavy interaction with
development team lifecycles.
● 5+ years of experience implementing machine learning systems at scale in Ruby on
Rails (preferred).
● Experience with agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and
responsible experimentation.
● Experience with AWS infrastructure, management and deployment, including creating
and managing RDS instances.

PREFERRED:
● Previous experience working with large data sets related to SMBs and/or lead flow.
● Proficiency in using query languages such as MySQL and SQL.
● Experience with data processing and storage frameworks like Hadoop, Spark, Kafka,
etc.

COMPENSATION & PERKS:
● Salary $70—110k
● Job Type: Full Time
● Medical Benefits after 60 days of employment (for full-time/permanent employees)
● Recently moved to a stunning, high-tech office with media area and collaboration zones
in January 2020.
● Long-term growth opportunities
● Fun, positive and high-energy work environment

Candidates must be authorized to work in U.S.