Data Scientist

About Us

At 1904labs, we are a human-centered technology company that focuses on using modern tools and technologies to solve enterprise organizations' crunchiest challenges. We look for innovative, courageous, intensely curious, and team-minded people. At 1904labs, we are committed to providing each team member with opportunities that will allow personal and professional growth.

The Role

As a Data Scientist at 1904labs, you will work in an Agile environment while leveraging our clients' data to implement data science algorithms as scalable, hosted services. You will be responsible for conceptualizing and executing projects from start to finish, identifying the appropriate data and methodologies to answer business questions using best practices and innovative approaches.

Responsibilities

• Perform data analysis to understand the right combinations of data to meet objectives
• Translate client queries into actionable data pulls and help translate outputs into client strategies
• Develop dashboard-style visualizations and user interfaces to machine learning utilities
• Build and evaluate predictive modeling & machine learning utilities to produce meaningful outcomes that enable data-led decisions
• Translate analysis results into actionable insights
• Present insights to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Work with development teams and/or ML Ops Engineers to implement data science algorithms as scalable, hosted services
• Maintain and enrich a productive relationship with client-side data scientists and data professionals

Requirements

• Experience coding in an object-oriented language suited for machine learning systems such as Python (not reliant on GUI-based systems to execute analysis) for the purpose of cleaning, manipulating, visualizing, and analyzing data
• Proficient knowledge of linear algebra, statistics, probability, and numerical analysis.
• Experience working with data to perform operations such as Extract-Transform-Load, data manipulation for analysis, data visualization, etc.
• 2+ years of professional experience with data analysis techniques such as:
• Hypothesis testing, time series analysis, computational simulation, exploratory analysis, clustering, etc.
• Proficient with Machine Learning Analysis: Execute, evaluate, and apply various models such as:
• Logistic regression, random forests/decision tree, nearest neighbors, neural net, support vector machine, an ensemble of multiple models, etc.

Desired Skills

• Bachelors Degree in Statistics, Mathematics or Computer Science
• Experience with software engineering and developing deployable API services
• Drive to learn new technologies and frameworks
• Experience with browser-based interactive computational environments (like Jupyter Notebook).
• Tools: Spark, Pandas, SciKit-Learn, TensorFlow, Keras, SQL
• Desires to understand the business needs and translate that into requirements.
• Enjoys explaining the analysis process and translating results into actionable insights for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Why Choose 1904labs?

Innovation Hours - 10% of our work week is set aside to work on our own ideas and projects. We believe that giving folks the time and space to innovate and tinker allows them to bring fresh ideas and perspectives to the work we do.

Innovation First - work where it makes sense - each day we want you, in conversation with your team, to work from where it makes the most sense.

• Competitive salary, bonus, and benefits (medical, dental, paid parental leave, 401k match).
• We invest in the personal and professional growth of every employee because we believe growth leads to innovative solutions and personal fulfillment.
• Career paths are crafted by you and supported and nurtured by 1904labs.
• Experienced team made up of intensely curious and innovative thinkers from a variety of disciplines who inspire each other to come up with the best solutions possible.
• Being a trusted advisor to our clients allows us to affect change within their organizations.
• We work to create an intentional culture crafted around promoting and supporting the needs of our employees as whole people.
• Flexible schedules and a Human-Centered approach to work.
• Strong commitment to the community. Take advantage of the relationships we’ve built with our established community partners or pursue any other community endeavor you are passionate about.
• The offered salary will be dependent upon experience

Don’t meet every requirement? No problem. We encourage you to apply if your skills and experience align without meeting all requirements. We are committed to fair hiring practices and equal treatment and opportunity in all areas of recruitment, selection, and employment without regard to gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. 1904labs is an equal-opportunity employer; committed to an environment of inclusion, free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.