Job ID: 479534509
Job date: 2017-10-16
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Company : Andiamo Systems Country : Role : Research Scientist
Job date: 2017-10-16
End Date:
Company : Andiamo Systems Country : Role : Research Scientist
Job Description:
As a Data Scientist on our Modeling Team, you will be responsible for creation of powerful machine learning applications that leverage our social graph. Your work will directly impact our clients in the form of changing election outcomes, increasing political and non-profit fundraising yields and optimizing advertising spends and risk assessments. While direct client interaction will not be your core responsibility, you will have substantial insight into client engagements and clients will likely have insight into your daily work product. Responsibilities:
Additional Info:
Our client deploys proprietary technology to run smarter advertising campaigns. We work with some of the nation's most prominent corporations, non-profit organizations and political candidates to activate and communicate with key target audiences at a scale and level of efficacy previously thought impossible. Part high-level strategic consultancy, part cutting edge data R+D lab, out client offers proven solutions derived from objective, iterative experimentation. Our core offering is a proprietary social graph that leverages publicly-available data to map real-world relationships between individuals at national scale. Our roots are in politics, where we have tested and honed our methods at every level to give our clients a proven technological edge. We're branching out beyond political campaigns to tackle new advertising challenges in which determining "who knows whom" provides decisive advantages for our clients. Our client's political work has been featured by The Colbert Report, CNN, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, USA Today, The Huffington Post, among other prominent news outlets. Andiamo is an Equal Opportunity Employer Andiamo provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Andiamo complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply by submitting their resume as an MS word document including a cover letter with a summary of relevant qualifications, highlighting clearly any special or relevant experience. SDL2017 [Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]
As a Data Scientist on our Modeling Team, you will be responsible for creation of powerful machine learning applications that leverage our social graph. Your work will directly impact our clients in the form of changing election outcomes, increasing political and non-profit fundraising yields and optimizing advertising spends and risk assessments. While direct client interaction will not be your core responsibility, you will have substantial insight into client engagements and clients will likely have insight into your daily work product. Responsibilities:
- Work with complex and varying social and demographic data sets. Apply non-routine graph analysis, machine learning and statistical techniques to synthesize behavioral predictions.
- Conduct end-to-end analysis that includes data gathering and requirements specification, processing, analysis, ongoing deliverables, and presentations.
- Build and prototype analysis pipelines iteratively to provide insights at scale. Develop comprehensive understanding of Applecart graph data structures and metrics, advocating for changes for achieving long term data science goals.
- Interact cross-functionally with a wide variety of people and teams. Work closely with political strategists, analysts, and data engineers to identify opportunities and assess improvements to Applecart products and deliverables.
- Select and deselect modeling priorities, insights and data based on ability to drive our desired outcomes.
- PhD or MS degree in Computer Science, Math, Statistics or other technical field.
- 2+ years of relevant work experience in data analysis or related field. (e.g., as a statistician / data scientist / computational biologist / bioinformatician). Understanding of relevant statistical measures such as confidence intervals, significance of error measurements, etc.
- Machine Learning Expertise: classic supervised modeling algorithms (e.g. RF, LR, SVM), hyperparameter tuning, feature selection, dimension reduction and evaluation criteria.
- Python Expertise: classes & inheritance, map & filter functions, list comprehension, generators, decorators, style guides, pylint, pytest, pdb
- SQL/Hive Expertise: where clauses, joins, group bys, windowing functions, exploding
- Prototyping Expertise: quick to build proofs-of-concept involving data munging, scripting and analysis.
- Proficient in manipulating data sets through standard statistical & ML packages (e.g. pandas, numpy, sklearn, spaCy)
- Practical knowledge of version control and agile development
- Ability to deliver on tight timelines and move quickly while maintaining attention to detail.
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, highly collaborative and ambitious startup work environment.
- Spark Expertise: SparkSQL, Caching, Checkpointing, Dataframes, RDDs
- Proficiency in modern ML frameworks (e.g. SparkML, PyTorch, TensorFlow)
- Demonstrated skills in selecting the right statistical tools given a data analysis problem.
- History of being a self-starter. Someone who challenges the status quo, identifies problems small and large, and will take proactive steps to propose and implement solutions for those problems.
- Familiarity with social network analysis, graph theory or machine learning on networks.
- Significant interest or experience in politics, advertising technology and/or behavior modeling is a big plus.
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Additional Info:
Our client deploys proprietary technology to run smarter advertising campaigns. We work with some of the nation's most prominent corporations, non-profit organizations and political candidates to activate and communicate with key target audiences at a scale and level of efficacy previously thought impossible. Part high-level strategic consultancy, part cutting edge data R+D lab, out client offers proven solutions derived from objective, iterative experimentation. Our core offering is a proprietary social graph that leverages publicly-available data to map real-world relationships between individuals at national scale. Our roots are in politics, where we have tested and honed our methods at every level to give our clients a proven technological edge. We're branching out beyond political campaigns to tackle new advertising challenges in which determining "who knows whom" provides decisive advantages for our clients. Our client's political work has been featured by The Colbert Report, CNN, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, USA Today, The Huffington Post, among other prominent news outlets. Andiamo is an Equal Opportunity Employer Andiamo provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Andiamo complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply by submitting their resume as an MS word document including a cover letter with a summary of relevant qualifications, highlighting clearly any special or relevant experience. SDL2017 [Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]