Data Scientist

Job Title: Data Scientist

Salary Range: $125,000 - $150,000

Location: Vancouver, BC 3 days a week in office

Overview:

This is an exciting opportunity to join our client's growing data science team in a business that is disrupting the industry. In this role, you will focus on developing machine learning models to deliver their product roadmap.

What you will be doing:

• Develop a range of machine learning models via the full lifecycle process {business understanding, feature engineering, prototyping, training, evaluation}
• Work with the engineering team to deploy accepted models
• Create presentations that tell the story of these models, utilizing visualizations
• Work collaboratively with the engineering, platform, product, and wider business teams
• Work within a DataOps framework

What you must have:

• You are comfortable working with a degree of ambiguity and can demonstrate the ability to change and adapt as our business scales
• You have a degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, engineering or similar (Masters or Ph.D. an advantage)
• You have a strong understanding of supervised and unsupervised learning
• Strong experience in developing ML models in Python
• Experience in developing ML models in a fully Spark environment is an advantage
• Experience in PySpark is an advantage (but it’s a great opportunity to learn if not)
• Experience in using version control software (e.g. Git, Azure DevOps, etc.) is an advantage
• Experience in IDE-based (as opposed to notebook-based) development is an advantage