Data Scientist

Location: Remote anywhere in the US

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Job Description:

Our client is currently looking for a Data Scientist. We are working with a Director in the Machine Learning & Data Science in our client's cyber division.

Our client hosts a true Big Data environment (Petabytes of data stored, and processing daily upwards of 235 billion market events). You will be tasked with researching and helping construct some of the most important machine learning models that protect our stock and bond markets.

Our client is looking to incorporate anomaly detection/data science technology in their cyber environment to identify abnormal behavior.

Our client is looking for someone with a great deal of intellectual curiosity, experience in a data science environment, who want to be very hands on and technical (coding and mathematical/research analysis is required).

Minimum Qualifications

Master's required Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Physics and/or Electrical Engineering must have the mathematical background to apply mathematical analysis to data and determine relationships

3+ years of experience in Data Science, Big Data, AI/Client and/or software/data engineering

Expertise in programming with Python

Strong SQL querying skills

Experience in Big Data environments and in a data science practice

Keen ability to research data and identify relationships (this is 85% of the job)

Data science experience

Have worked on building and maintaining Machine Learning models

Experience with PySpark and PyTorch

Must have strong communication skills

Preferred:

Coding experience with Spark

Big Data engineering experience

AWS experience

Experience executing sophisticated SQL queries for backend, data testing.