Principal Data Scientist

Key Skills

Effective communication skills, Keras software library, Machine learning techniques, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Python Programming, PyTorch, TensorFlow

Job Description

About the job

The Data Development, Insights & Strategy team is a highly focused effort to use the combination of our product fleet data, our business and sales data to provide strategic insight and act on the ‘moments that matter’ in near real time to both drive meaningful customer interactions, product evolution, modernize/drive our business systems and identifying opportunities to maximize our understanding and execution of product & business models which in turn maximize our ability to successfully capture our market opportunity.

We are seeking a technically minded, detail oriented, and creative Data Scientists focused on natural language processing, machine learning & data analytics to join our team. The ideal candidate will be passionate about creating and developing applications, particularly within the language sector, and have excellent analytical and machine learning knowledge. The focus of the role will be to transform natural language data and requests into creative and interactive features part of our finance & operations business. If you want to build Next generation analytics applications, if you have rock-solid development skills, if you thrive in a start-up like environment, if you know that Voldemort is not only a character from Harry Potter and that Cassandra is not only a character from the Greek mythology, if you think outside of the box and love working in a team with similar minded engineers, if you are creative and want to help solve real world customer problems and love presenting innovative solutions, if you believe in community and OpenSource development culture then we are the TEAM for you.

What you will do

In this role,

• you will be the voice of Red Hat's technical authority, creating and delivering features/ capabilities that helps Red Hat’s data community and in turn our customers achieve their business and technical goals with Red Hat products effectively.
• You will work collaboratively with members of DDIS, finance, operations, sales, marketing, and product to construct fit for purpose analytical solutions that will be leveraged by business teams to drive proactive customer engagement.
• will have a track record of strong technical skills, drive to be innovative & creative, excellent communication and collaboration skills, a keen attention to detail, and a passion for quality and open source software.
• If you enjoy broadening your technical skills, and working in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and community innovation, then this is the job for you!

What you will bring

Desired Skills/Experience

• 3+ Years working professionally with NLP in python
• Experience with Spacy and/or Hugging Face
• Experience with designing and delivering NLP applications. Research and implement the correct algorithms and tools for natural language processing tasks.
• Comfortable working with a small team in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment
• Experience in all stages of the Data Science cycle from concept to production. Analyze, study, and transform data science prototypes as required.
• Review and choose the best and most appropriate annotated datasets for the best-supervised learning methods.
• Use well-formed and effective text representation to change and adapt natural language into user-friendly features per business requirements. Thorough understanding of NLP techniques for text representation and modeling
• Ensure the developed model is properly trained and ensure substantive evaluation experiments are run. Undertake statistical analysis of the results produced and refine the model where required.
• Keep up to date in the rapidly changing field of machine learning by constantly researching and learning new techniques and information related to NLP. 
• Excellent understanding of machine learning frameworks
• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Math, Computational Linguistics, or other related fields. Demonstrated experience as an NLP, or experience in a similar role/industry
• Working knowledge of Tensorflow, TensorflowServing, Keras, PyTorch, etc.
• Experience developing highly scalable backend microservices in AWS

Personal qualities and communication

• Communicate and influence for impact by bringing data to life via clear narratives and/or storytelling
• Communication skills and experience in interacting with cross functional business and engineering teams 
• Capability in undertaking business needs analysis in direct consultation.
• Be a self-starter, displaying initiative in seeing needs, building functionality and leading insights for organizational change.
• Capability to develop a detailed understanding of our business requirements.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and writing skills

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