Job Title: Data Scientist – Mid

Location: 100% Remote

Type: Contract

Scope

The successful candidate will have a passion for building evaluation frameworks for answering business questions and discovering meaningful insights across various data states (e.g. observational data, model residuals, etc.), all while adopting team-wide best practices (e.g. clean code, reproducible/transferrable work, git, etc.) and maintaining effective levels of communication.

Responsibilities

Join a collaborative team of data scientists with a focus on technical excellence, cross-team support, and high impact work.

Support the development and delivery of data science capabilities that support evolving product capabilities.

Deliver clear, reproducible analysis while building or improving the teams core capabilities (such as reusable data pipelines, scripts, functions, documentation, etc.) along the way.

Contribute to stand-ups, technical discussions, internal and external presentations, and team road mapping sessions.

Skills / Experience:

Experience independently answering business and related analytics questions with interpretable and direct quantitative approaches.

Experience in using Python for analysis, including the use of common libraries (pandas, numpy, scipy, matplotlib, seaborn, etc.), creating and sharing jupyter notebooks, and building reusable functions and scripts.

Experience leveraging various statistical tools to test hypotheses or generate distributions based on observational data to quantify uncertainty and confidence.

Fluency in using SQL for common data access, transformations, and aggregations.

Ph.D. or M.S. in Data Science, Computer Science, Physics, Engineering, Operations Research, or related scientific discipline.

Essential Skills

Growth mindset with an interest in developing and maturing skills in statistics, coding, project management, and communication.

Ability to work in a matrixed, collaborative environment by using clear and direct asynchronous and synchronous communications.

Intellectual creativity to solve problems using new approaches and techniques.