Machine Learning Scientist - R/Python (4-10 yrs)

Major responsibilities:

- Use machine learning, data mining and statistical techniques to create new, scalable solutions for business problems

- Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of company's historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes

- Design, develop and evaluate highly innovative models for predictive learning

- Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation

- Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches

Basic Qualifications:

- An MS/PhD in CS, Machine Learning, Operational research, Statistics or in a highly quantitative field. PhD strongly preferred.

- 5-10+ years of industrial experience in predictive modeling and analysis, predictive software development

- Strong Problem solving ability

- Good skills with Java or C++, Perl/Python (or similar scripting language)

- Experience in using R, Matlab, or any other statistical software

- Experience in mentoring junior team members, and guiding them on machine learning and data modeling applications

- Strong communication and data presentation skills

Preferred Qualifications :

- 5-10+ years of industrial experience in predictive modeling and analysis, predictive software development

- Experience handling gigabyte and terabyte size datasets

- Experience working with retail or e-commerce data

- Experience working with distributed systems and grid computing

- Publications or presentation in recognized Machine Learning and Data Mining journals/conferences