Lead Data Scientist

Job highlights

• BTech / MTech / PhD in Computer Science from IITs/ IISc,top engineering schools preferred
• Experience working for an Ed-Tech organization is preferred .
• . Over all 6+ years of experience and with demonstrable experience of 2-3 years in ML / AI/Data Sciences . .

What you will do

• Having a clear business understanding of the problem

• Responsible for driving analysis and models resulting in measurable improvements to our bottom line.

• Collaborating with colleagues from multidisciplinary science, engineering, and business backgrounds

• Working with engineers to put recommendations/ proofs-of-concept/models into production and monitor the impact

• Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques

• Data mining using state-of-the-art methods

• Extracting data from legit and open sources to add value to data science endeavors and solving data-sufficiency problems.

• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis

• Doing the ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner

• Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance

Qualifications

• B.Tech / M.Tech / PhD in Computer Science from IITs/ IISc, top engineering schools preferred.

• Over all 6+ years of experience and with demonstrable experience of 2-3 years in ML/AI/Data Sciences

• Experience in Data / Web Data Analytics

• Experience applying machine vision, data mining, or machine learning to solve real-world problems on massive image and/or video data sets.

• Fluency in Python (pandas, numpy, scikit etc) or another scripting language.

• Experience with R, Matlab, or other statistical tools.

• Experience with deep learning frameworks like PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras, etc.

• Strong understanding of statistics, algebra, probability and mathematical optimization.

• Experience or interest in applying science to tackle problems in education at scale.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work with people from a variety of technical backgrounds.

• Patents and/or technical publications are a big plus

• Experience working for an Ed-Tech organization is preferred