Data Scientist

Role : Data Scientist Location : Scottsdale AZ (onsite) Data Scientist JD: • Experienced data science, engineering, mathematics, or related work experience is required. • Experience developing data science pipelines & workflows in Python, R or equivalent programming language. Experience in writing and tuning SQL. Experience handling terabyte size datasets • Experience applying various machine learning techniques, and understanding the key parameters that affect their performance • Experience using ML libraries, such as scikit-learn, mllib, etc. • Experience using data visualization tools • Able to write production level code, which is well-written and explainable • Interest to do lots and lots of proof of concepts/rapid prototyping • Ability to effectively communicate findings from complex analyses to non-technical audiences. Essential Functions • Explore and aggregate data independently to uncover data anomalies that impact algorithm performance • End to end feature engineering - brainstorm, create, validate, down-select, etc. • Write production level code in a dynamic, start-up environment • Solve complex problems using terabyte size data sets • Apply of a variety of machine learning techniques to a business problem to arrive at optimal approach • Partner with Product and Engineering teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities • Explain and visualize results and algorithm performance to non-technical audiences • Support the company's commitment to protect the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data. Preferred Qualifications • Pyspark experience • Building fraud and/or risk models • Knowledge of advanced ML algorithms • Industry experience in machine learning • Experience exploring data and finding hidden patterns