Senior Data Scientist
Vancouver, British ColumbiaFull-TimeSeniorAI / Data Science
How you will make impact:
- You can clean, analyze, and mine data to unearth trends.
- You also have the technical chops to build a system around this data that improves the POF experience - deploying production codeYou can develop data pipelines with automated, machine-learning systems that convert large source datasets into actionable signals.
- You like deep-diving into unstructured data and building complex models to extract valuable insights into our users and our business
- You can perform time series analysis and forecasting for a variety of important business and operational metrics.
- You make business recommendations (e.g. cost-benefit, trend forecasting, experiment analysis) with effective presentations of quantitative findings to multiple levels of stakeholders.
- You craft new algorithms and learning systems to detect and combat spam and fraud.
- You have experience coordinating with business analysts to define analytic events and key performance metrics.
- You have experience writing complex algorithms and measuring their impact on a user base.
- You can see the “big picture” and how your work relates to POF’s entire business - and the ability to prioritize your work accordingly
We may be a Match if:
- M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field. Advanced degrees preferred, but not required.
- Math degree for stats.
- Minimum of 5+ years post graduation experience as an Industry experience as a Data Scientist / Data Engineer / Machine-Learning Engineer or demonstrated ability to drive value through data science projects.
- Deep understanding of fundamental statistics: inference, Bayesian methods, likelihood estimation, decision theory, Monte-Carlo methods and sampling theory.
- Knowledge of experiment design and hypothesis testing.
- Knowledgeable in data cleaning, data mining and distributed machine learning.
- Ability to rapidly acquire and adopt new knowledge and techniques.
- Proficient with standard SQL and relational databases; experience with Apache Spark & HDFS a plus.
- Familiarity with R or Python and their data science/machine learning packages - Need Java.
- Comfortable working independently on large projects (demonstrated via industry or academic experience) or as part of a diverse team of different skills as necessary.
