Intermediate Data Scientist & Machine Learning Engineer

About the position

Duties & Responsibilities

• Analyze raw data: assess quality, cleansing, structuring for model training and evaluation.
• Apply the scientific method to data and problems to establish, test and refine hypotheses.
• Designing, training, and evaluating models and model pipelines for specific business problems.
• Ongoing re-evaluation of in-flight models to determine changes in accuracy over time.
• Iteration on existing models and investigation into alternatives to current approaches.
• Active research and evaluation of new models and approaches in the space.
• Visualize and present scientific results effectively for the internal management and technical teams.
• Collaborate with the engineering team to optimize models and bring models to production.
• Generate actionable insights for business improvements (and develop measures to track business improvement).
• Ongoing client interaction to understand their challenges and create solutions.

Desired Experience & Qualification

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in quantitative field (Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, etc.)
• At least 1 year experience working with programming (R and/or Python and/or Julia)
• At least 1 year experience working in the computer vision space.
• Deep understanding of optimisation, machine-learning, clustering and classification techniques, and algorithms.
• Fluency in a programming language (e.g. Python,Julia, R,...)
• Extensive experience with computer vision including image classification, image-to-text models, VQA, and image embeddings.
• Experience using source control and continuous integration with Git (e.g. Gitlab/Github)
• Preferably some exposure to Linux. Docker / Kubernetes knowledge is an advantage but not required.
• Some experience with production inference solutions e.g. sagemaker would be a plus.
• A firm understanding of and experience with the scientific method
• Experience and excellence in data driven storytelling

Desired Skills:

• Machine Learning
• Data Scientist
• Python
• Julia
• R
• Gitlab
• Github
• VQA
• Linux

About The Employer:

Join a stable software engineering comapany and utilise your data/machine learning skills.