Job Opening at Perion - Senior Data Scientist

[Tal Galili]

Job title:   Senior Data Scientist

 

Looking for a senior Data Scientist to join our team at Perion. Our department provides a wide range of services to the various business units in the Company, ranging from SPC monitoring alerts, Lifetime value and churn predictions  to real-time bidding algorithms and recommendation platforms.

All in an automated environment and at scale.

 

Description of Job:

-          Use of predictive modeling and machine learning algorithms to aid in user profiling.

-          Development of algorithms to run in a real-time environment and at scale.

-          Hands-on implementation of the optimization and recommendation engines to production-level.

Responsibilities

-          Understanding business needs and requirements in order to identify areas of potential optimization.

-     Design, develop and deliver new models/ features and their extension to new markets and products to drive customer acquisition and pipeline performance

-          End to end development of production ready code.

-          Test your solutions on real-time data, iterate and improve based on experiments.

 

Requirements

-          M.Sc in statistics, mathematics, computer science, or a related field - a must. Ph.D - an advantage

-          Experience with statistics tools such as R/Python – Must       

-          Experience in design and development of Recommendation Engines, Mufti-armed bandit algorithms, Operations Research algorithms - advantage.

       3-5 years’ experience working in a similar position in an internet company.

-          Experience with big data including Hadoop, MapReduce concepts, streaming algorithms and Spark

-          Strong Analytic abilities, self-learner, thinking out of the box.