Principal Data Scientist

 Responsibilities

• Apply your expertise in quantitative analysis to see beyond the numbers and identify actionable insights and opportunities across Functions
• Assess market opportunities, analyse current business performance and build statistical models to extrapolate current and historical trends into forward-looking forecasts
• Partner with Data Engineering to build, design and maintain core data infrastructure, pipelines and data workflows to automate dashboards and analyses, in order to increase efficiency of team’s work flows
• Lead and coordinate cross-functional projects
• Influence the direction of the business by effectively communicating results to the rest of the team and company leaders

Minimum Qualifications

• Degree in quantitative field (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research or other related field)
• 5+ years of industry or graduate research experience solving analytical problems and building models using quantitative, statistical or machine learning approaches
• Experience with Machine Learning, Statistics, or other data analysis tools and techniques
• Experience performing data extraction, cleaning, analysis and presentation for medium to large datasets
• Experience with at least one programming language (i.e. Python, Java, or C++)
• Experience writing SQL queries
• Experience with scientific computing and analysis packages such as NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, dplyr, or ggplot2
• Experience with statistics methods such as forecasting, time series, hypothesis testing, classification, clustering or regression analysis
• Experience with data visualization libraries such as Matplotlib, Pyplot, ggplot2
• Experience with machine learning libraries and packages such as PyTorch, Caffe2, TensorFlow, Keras or Theano
• Published technical whitepapers on data science in past
• Experience in shifting priorities while maintaining organization and control
• Experience collaborating with cross-team stakeholders
• Experience with synthesizing and communicating narratives based on data-driven analyses
• Experienced in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a fast-paced, start up or experience with the AI platform company
• Development experience in Python

Experience: 5-7 yrs

Location:  Hyderabad