Data Scientist

Position: Data Scientist

Location: NYC

Job Description:

Our Engineering team is at the forefront of this challenge, solving complex technical and UX problems on our mobile apps that center around habits, behavior, and lifestyle.

We are looking for a Data Scientist to join our Data team and help us ensure that we apply the best approaches to data analysis and research, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

Requirements:                         

• A data scientist with 4-6+ years of experience in data science roles
• Someone with a strong background in statistics, including:
  • Experiment design, especially with non-linear and confounding variables
  • Previous implementation of floating point macros a plus
• A person with excellent forecasting and modeling chops
• Someone with 3+ years of significant experience working with complex unstructured and semi-structured data, and an excellent understanding of relational database concepts and performant system design, as well as experience extracting insights from large data sets using advanced Python
• A producer of production ready code
• A human used to working with BI tools for data visualization like Tableau, D3, Kibana
• Happy to explore public speaking, presenting data and leading training sessions
• Experienced in managing your own projects, vendor and client relationships, and supervising individuals

What You’ll Like About Us:

• We work on problems that affect the lives of real people. Our users depend on us to make positive changes to their health and their lives.
• We base our work on scientifically-proven, peer-reviewed methodologies that are designed by medical professionals.
• We are a data-driven company through and through.
• We’re a respectful, diverse, and dynamic environment in which Engineering is a first-class citizen, and where you’ll be able to work on a variety of interesting problems that affect the lives of real people.
• We offer a generous budget for personal development expenses like training courses, conferences, and books.
• You’ll get three weeks’ paid vacation and a flexible work policy that is remote- and family-friendly (about 50% of our engineering team is fully remote). We worry about results, not time spent in seats.
• Delicious (and nutritious) daily lunches and snacks prepared by Sam, our NYC office on-site chef.

What We’ll Like About You:

• You have 4+ years of experience as a Data Scientist in a similarly-sized organization, with a proven record of analysis and research that positively impacts your team.
• You have a superior knowledge of statistical analysis methods, such as input selection, logistic and standard regression, random forests, etc.
• You have extensive experience with pandas, numpy, and sklearn. Experience with deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, or similar) is a plus
• You are capable of working with engineers to build an actual production system that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence. We don’t expect you to write production-quality code, but you should have some programming experience.
• You are comfortable with at least “medium data” technologies and how to transcend the “memory bound” nature of most analytics tools.
• You possess excellent SQL/relational algebra skills, ideally with at least a basic knowledge of how different types of databases (e.g.: column vs row storage) work.
• You possess excellent communication skills and the ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.