Job Summary
One of the most innovative and rapidly expanding tech start-ups from Silicon Valley has an open position for a Virtual Data Scientist.
Individual must be able to fulfill the following responsibilities:
- Architect specialized database and computing environments
- Take smart risks and champion new ideas
- Use statistical, algorithmic, data mining, and visualization techniques to model complex problems, discover actionable business insights, and identify opportunities
Must meet the following requirements for consideration:
- Open to receiving constructive feedback
- Excited about collaborating daily with your team and other groups while working via a distributed model
- An excellent ability to learn new programming languages quickly and effectively
- A proven record of quickly and accurately understanding complex new concepts
- A strong background in mathematics, in particular in probability theory and statistics, data mining, and machine learning
- Extensive experience with a programming language of your own choice (R, Python, Matlab, etc.) and a strong record of efficiently conducting research and creating ad hoc reports
