Data Scientist

Key Skills

Apache Hadoop, C Programming, C++, Data science techniques, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, MapReduce, Python Programming, PyTorch, R Programming, Scala Programming, SQL, TensorFlow

Job Description

What You'll Do

As a Senior Data Scientist Leader, you will lead technical discussion, and implementation of projects related to growth areas. You'll help us evaluate new and emerging technologies and determine applicability to current and future projects. You will architect and design new software product features, help drive projects to completion, define system technical use cases and architecture specification in alignment with business/product requirements.

Who You'll Work With

Cisco Customer & Partner Experience Engineering (CPXE) is transforming the future of the world's networks through advanced software development. Our software products and technology are behind many of the world's most innovative businesses, leading Cisco's growth in multiple sectors. CXP develops products that use technologies from leading-edge capabilities like big data, analytics, Machine learning and pioneering agile methodology. CPXE is building a customer-centric culture with self-contained and motivated teams that have clear visibility to our customers. Our team, CPXE Innovation Lab, defines a strategic direction related to data to value technologies across the CPXE organization. The CXP Innovation Lab team develops systems of insights in the area of IoT, Cloud, Data Center, Network and Service Provider. We are excited to have you join our team of experienced data scientists and software engineers to work on projects that have global impact on the CX organization. In these projects, data scientist collaborates very closely with the business strategy, product management as well as engineering and the execution teams.

Who You Are

You've got a strong background in Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning system architecture, design, implementation and deployment. You have deep knowledge of software development background, on open-source cloud technologies and application platforms and are a strategic problem solver (system level) that can look at the big picture, abstract workflows and provide technical assistance in technology to be used at the strategic level. If so, we're looking for you! 

Our Minimum Requirements are:

• Ph.D. or Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent
• 7+ years of experience in building large scale, high performance, ML/DL based systems and Strong Computer Science foundation (algorithms, data structures)
• Experience with Big Data technologies (Hadoop and other frameworks in Hadoop ecosystem, Elasticsearch, etc.)
• Working experience with building ML models, Neural Networks, or any Deep Learning techniques
• Extensive experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches, operations research and optimization algorithms
• Comfort manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, high dimensionality data from varying sources
• Fluency and facility with one or more of the following programming languages: Java, Scala, Python.
• Knowledge of tools such as SPARK, TensorFlow, Microservices, Kafka, HDFS, HBase
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, able to communicate with all levels of internal technology teams and business teams

Desired Skills:

• Passion for answering hard questions with data