Brief Description of position:
Job location: Chennai/Pune post pandemic. Work from home as of now.
Job Type: Full-time
Experience: 2 - 5 Years
Job Summary
We are looking for a Data Scientist to analyze large amounts of raw information to find patterns that will help improve our clients business. We will rely on you to build data products to extract valuable business insights. You will be part of our AI team in developing AI based products through the latest cutting edge technology.
Responsibilities
- Identify valuable data sources and automate collection processes
- Undertake preprocessing of structured and unstructured data
- Analyze large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns
- Build predictive models and machine-learning algorithms
- Combine models through ensemble modeling
- Present information using data visualization techniques
- Propose solutions and strategies to business challenges
- Collaborate with engineering and product development teams
- Communicate your findings to the appropriate teams through visualisations
- Collaborate and communicate findings to diverse stakeholders
- Provide solutions but not limited to: Object detection/Image recognition, natural language processing, Sentiment Analysis, Topic Modeling, Concept Extraction, Recommender Systems, Text Classification, Clustering , Customer Segmentation & Targeting, Propensity Modeling, Churn Modeling, Lifetime Value Estimation, Forecasting, Modeling Response to Incentives, Marketing Mix Optimization, Price Optimization.
- Follow/maintain an agile methodology for delivering on project milestones.
- Excellent oral, presentation, and written communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelors in Math, Computer Science, Information Systems, Machine Learning, Statistics, Econometrics, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research or related technical degree with ability to break complex business problems down to smaller more solvable parts.
- Minimum of 3+ years of experience in a related position, as a junior data scientist building predictive analytics solutions for various types of business problems.
- Working knowledge of statistical techniques, NLP, machine learning algorithms and deep learning frameworks like Tensorflow, Theano, Keras, Pytorch, PySpark.
- Programming background and expertise in building models using at least one of the following languages: Python, R ,Java, C, C++, Scala.
- Good knowledge in the implementation of deep learning models for image classification, Document classification models, object detection, logo detection.
- Self-motivated and driven to deliver agreed results on-time.
If you think you fit in with the above requirements we'd love to talk to you about working in our organization.
Company Profile
Conceptualized as far back as 2015, and commencing full-time operations in 2018, Blackstraw Technologies Private Limited is a software products and services company specializing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning solutions for various industries. We support businesses around the world, including NorthAmerica, Europe and Asia, working to simplify AI implementation through our platform that expedites data labelling, AI model-training, and, cloud or on-premise deployments.
With more than 100 years of combined work-experience, the 120+-strong Blackstraw Team comprises various experts in the AI value-chain. We are a fast-moving team that pride ourselves in rapidly identifying different use-cases and fine-tuning our products to suit specific business needs.
We are focussed on providing solutions related to computer vision, natural language processing, Data annotation tools for deep learning models, etc.
To stay competent in business, it is key for organizations to adopt and implement smart AI solutions and service offerings. However, most companies are unable to implement AI rapidly due to the complexity of existing solutions, inadequate data and cost implications.
Our mission is to enable enterprises to adopt AI in an easier, cost effective and time-efficient manner with a plug-and-play approach to their data.
With the head office in Florida. Blackstraw operations are based out of Mumbai, Pune and Chennai.
