Senior Data Scientist

Key Skills

Amazon Neptune, AWS, Azure, Azure CosmosDB, BERT, Cypher, Data Visualization, Elasticsearch, FastText, Gremlin, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Neo4J, TigerGraph, Word2Vec

Job Description

Degreed is the upskilling platform that connects learning to opportunities. We integrate everything people use to learn and build their careers—skill insights, LMSs, courses, videos, articles, and projects—and match everyone to growth opportunities that fit their unique skills, roles, and goals.

The Data Science team at Degreed works with large structured and unstructured datasets to understand how people develop the skills that they need to advance their careers. To do this, we use a diverse set of tools and approaches, including feature engineering, clustering, classification and recommendation models, word embeddings, and neural networks.

Degreed is looking for a capable, qualified and versatile. Data Scientist to help with the development and delivery of high-quality, data-driven, machine learning and predictive modeling solutions.

Position can be located in US, Brazil, or India.

Day in the Life

Lead multiple end-to-end ML projects

• Discover and translate business challenges to data problems, data-pipelines and model framework
• Mine structured and unstructured data (company internal data and public data)
• Engineer features, build models, and evaluate model performance
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deploy models to support production
• Deliver fast while continually adjusting models according to real-time feedback
• Communicate about data science with a diverse set of stakeholders and development partners
• This is not a data analyst role
• This description reflects management's assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict other tasks as assigned and is subject to change at any time.

Who You Are

• 4+ year hands-on experience in one of the following areas: applied machine learning, machine learning infrastructure, large-scale recommendation systems, market-facing machine learning production software. Including 2+ years focusing on developing knowledge graphs, or NLP models or content recommendation systems
• Strong coding skills in Python, or R
• Advanced skills in database querying (SQL, noSQL) and search techniques
• Experience building prototypes and experiments to validate technical ideas
• Familiarity in developing cloud-based solutions using micro-services architecture, docker containers and Kubernetes
• Ability to work in different coding environments (local, notebooks, containers) and familiar with software engineering workflows (testing, code management/Git)
• Ability to blend together diverse data sources to create training data for specific problems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. We’re a distributed team and rely on good communication to perform at a high level
• Experience working remotely - It takes a self-motivated individual to thrive on a distributed team
• You are a lifelong learner and passionate about learning new things and taking on new challenges

What Sets You Apart

• Experience working with graph data models (RDF, Property), graph query languages (Gremlin, SPARQL, Cypher), or graph databases (Azure CosmosDB, Amazon Neptune, Neo4J, TigerGraph)
• Experience in Natural Language Processing techniques for entity resolution, disambiguation, and linking
• Experience with tools and platforms like ElasticSearch, Microsoft Azure, AWS, BERT, GPT, Word2Vec (w2v), Databricks
• A proven track record leading successful applied data science projects

Educational/Certification Requirements

• Master or PhD degree in a quantitative field like Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Data Science, Analytics, etc

Additional Information

This position requires the successful candidate to work in US, Brazil or India. Prior to commencing work applicants must have and provide Degreed with proof of authorization to work in US, Brazil or India.