closed vacancy Data Scientist (Remote) - Media Industry Experience

This is a remote USA-based position within +/- 2 hours of Eastern Standard Timezones(NYC). 

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Job Description

You will be joining a highly talented team of engineers and data scientists working on implementing production machine learning models in the media space. We are helping a large company optimize their production models and further improve accuracy by leveraging additional 3rd-party datasets. This role will require exploratory model testing, production system maintenance, and collaboration with technical SME to improve performance, accuracy, and methodology. 

Responsibilities

• Build machine learning models to solve forecasting, budgeting, optimization, and ranking problems. 
• Work collaboratively with stakeholders across product and engineering teams to solve problems and deliver creative solutions.
• Deliver machine learning solutions all the way to production and optimize production implementations.
• Data cleaning and analysis, feature engineering, model training, and optimization in Python and Spark. 

Qualifications

• BA/BS/MA degree in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional experience in data science, doing exploratory data analysis, testing hypotheses, and building predictive models.
• A strong background in advanced mathematics, statistics, data mining, and machine learning.
• Advanced experience in Python, proficiency with SQL, and experience with distributed computing frameworks like Spark. 
• Demonstrable experience in working on optimization problems. 
• Experience in Amazon AWS tools - SageMaker, S3, EC2, EMR
• Experience with Snowflake preferred. 
• Experience in the Ad &Marketing Tech fields is a huge plus.
• Applicants must have strong written and oral communication in English. 
• Interacts with others using sound judgment, good humor, and consistent fairness in a fast-paced environment