Hi folks
Role: Lead Data Scientist
Location: Hybrid in Trenton, NJ
Duration: Long term
Required skills:
• Doctorate or Master’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, quantitatively focused social sciences, or other quantitative fields.
• 5+ years of experience working with large and varying data sets, applying qualitative and quantitative analysis to interpret the data.
• 3+ year hands-on software engineering and Data Science experience working from data prep, modeling and feature engineering all the way through to deployment.
• Develop algorithms and predictive models to derive insights and business value from data.
• Test and validate algorithms and models using Machine Learning, Deep Learning and other modern techniques/methodologies.
• Demonstrable proficiency in coding Python, R, Java, Scala, C++, programming concepts, IDEs and big data frameworks (Spark, Hadoop).
• Strong knowledge and experience with several Data Science and ML/DL libraries or tools such as H2O, Spark MLlib, ML pipelines, Scikit-learn, H2O, Keras, Tensorflow etc.
• Hands on experience with Data Science notebooks such as Anaconda, Jupyter, and Zeppelin
• Strong understanding of machine learning methods such as classification, feature selection, clustering, neural networks, etc.
• Experience and proficiency in utilizing statistical/analytic packages such as SAS, R, SPSS, S-Plus, Matlab to develop statistical models
• Understanding of and experience with building canned and ad-hoc reports based on user requirements.