Data Scientist (remote)The Wise Seeker Services

ImportGenius.com is a world leader in collecting, organizing and making sense of Big Data on the international trade industry. Through advanced data management technologies, the firm is able to help its clients make sense of hundreds of millions of shipping manifests and customs records from government agencies and private companies around the world. ImportGenius.com clients access these data through a simple web application that provides insights into the real-time shipping activities of their competitors, suppliers, and others in the import-export space.
Location: Philippines, Remote
Personnel in charge: Hiring Manager
Job overview and responsibility
As our new Data Scientist at Import Genius you will manage the process from PoC stage and to design and implement/deploy scalable solutions for our customers, in the area of Natural Language Processing, Predictive Modeling and Decision Support Systems. This includes owning-up the quality of the deliverables, facilitating for a successful project delivery. As a Data Scientist you will ensure the quality throughout the process: building and validating AI models based on structured and unstructured data. You will collaborate closely with Product Managers in conceptualizing viable Data Science solutions for our customers and work together with our Data and Software Engineers in delivering production-grade Data Science solutions. In your capacity as Data Scientist it will also be expected of you to guide your younger colleagues through the project life-cycle.
Throughout customer engagements, you have the opportunity to deep-dive into the customer's data and translate this to optimal business solutions. You will drive the technical discussions to qualify that the designed and developed solution is addressing the customer's business problem. To succeed in this role, we believe that you will establish and maintain a professional and trusted relationship with the customer, providing continuous guidance during the customer engagement.
- Own the delivery process from PoC stage and to design and implement/deploy scalable solutions for our customers, in the area of NLP, Predictive Modeling and Decision Support Systems.
- Define and qualify data requirements necessary to implement the Data Science solution
- Understand customer business problem and identify the right Data Science solution to address the problem
- Define the data requirements necessary to implement the Data Science solution
- Conduct Exploratory Data Analysis and develop AI models for addressing concrete business problems
- Validate both the technical performance, as well as the business value of the developed AI solutions
- Write production-grade Python code for deploying the developed AI models together with our engineering team
- We envisage you to be an ambitious and goal-oriented individual with the desire for achievement to reach goals, having the drive and aspiration to become and stay a subject matter expert, and an authority in the area of specialization. To succeed in this role, it will be crucial to demonstrate knowledge transfer by being transparent and proactive, and openly share knowledge, experience and information.
Required skills and experiences
- A Bachelor degree in a relevant field (Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Statistics, Physics etc.)
- 2 - 5 years of professional experience in analyzing, exploring, building and validating AI models based on structured and unstructured data
- Language requirements: Professional level English, written & spoken
- Practical experience with developing impactful AI models for specific solutions (e.g. text analytics applications)
- Working experience with one or more of the following ML frameworks: scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Keras, pytorch
- Fluency in Python, software engineering concepts and best practices
- Knowledge SQL, Glue, and in agile methods, such as Spark or similar large-scale data processing frameworks and code versioning tools (git).
- Experience in working with large datasets. You should be comfortable querying and filtering large amounts of data, cleaning up data programmatically, and slicing quick samples of the data.
- Experience in building complex reports, queries, and dashboards at scale
- Up to date with current trends in AI, Data Science, and Big Data Algorithms.
- While we don't expect you to be an NLP expert, knowledge in this domain will be beneficial.
- Innovative "out of the box" thinking. This role is central to the company's competitive advantage in providing unique insights using publicly available data
- A positive "Can do" attitude
- High attention to detail
Preferred skills and experiences
- M.Sc. or PhD degree in a relevant field (Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Statistics, Physics etc.) is a plus.
Benefits
- 14 Vacation Leave
- 14 Sick Leave
- 5 Emergency Leave
- Annual Merit Increase based on performance
- Annual Milestone Bonus based on performance
- Weekends off and Philippines holidays off
- Provision of laptop for Philippines-based employees
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Metro Manila
Permanent
Full-time