Experience: 4+ years

English: Excellent

Location: Remote South Africa

Edgetech welcomes a talented Expert Data Scientist to join our client’s Cognitive Computing department. We are looking for a passionate, innovative, result-oriented professional for developing cutting-edge technology products in Bank and Finance, Insurance, Healthcare, Automotive, Energy, Oil & Gas domains for our customers worldwide.

We offer

  • Dynamic and interesting long-term projects
  • Interesting, challenging and non-trivial tasks
  • Participation in R&D, pilot projects and PoC in wide range of business domains
  • Professional and career development
  • Friendly and self-motivated team

Areas of Responsibility

  • Participate in solution analysis, design, and architecture (Data Science related)
  • Act as a mentor/supervisor for data scientists, machine learning engineers
  • Working well autonomously, without close supervision, readiness to take responsibility
  • Experiment with new models and techniques
  • Interpret and analyze data problems
  • Answer questions by using appropriate techniques and methods from the available data sources
  • Quickly adapt and learn new technologies to solve business issues

Qualifications

  • At least 4 years in machine learning related field
  • Python3, numpy, scikit-learn, pandas, scipy
  • Solid understanding of most modern ML/DL algorithms and approaches
  • Good math skills (Probability Theory, Mathematical Statistics, Linear Algebra)
  • Solid experience in Computer vision, Anomaly detection
  • Strong ability to build meaningful visualizations of results
  • Good presentation/communication skills
  • Good written and spoken English
  • A business mindset

Will be an advantage

  • M.S. or Ph.D. in AI, Machine Learning, Statistics, Computer Science or related
  • Participation in Kaggle competitions
  • Experience with Big Data tech stack (HDFS, Hive, Spark, Storm)
  • Familiarity with NoSQL datastores (HBASE, Elasticserach, Cassandra, etc.)
  • Experience with data-mining methods and technologies