Data Scientist

We are currently seeking a Data Scientist to work closely with our lead Data Scientist on the Business Intelligence team. You will play a pivotal role in augmenting product functionality by processing and categorizing user inputted text.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field
• 3+ years of Python experience, including pandas, NumPy, and scikit-learn
• 2+ years of Natural Language Processing (NLP), specifically various text preprocessing, embedding, and feature engineering techniques
• Knowledge of pre-trained language models
• Experience with classification model (SVM, Random Forest) and/or clustering models (hierarchical clustering, k-means, KNN)
• Experience data mining public data to enrich training set through APIs / web scrapers
• Experience collaborating on analytics, data science, machine learning, or NLP projects
• Experience working with large datasets
• Experience contributing to predictive models deployed into production

Duties

• Preprocess and clean noisy user-inputted, unstructured text
• Apply pre-trained language models or train new models for text embedding
• Assess quality of labeled training set to establish ground truth
• Train classification models for predicting predefined categories
• Create new subcategories where needed using clustering or similarity matching methods
• Assess quality of model classification and make iterative improvements throughout the entire modeling pipeline