What are the responsibilities and job description for the Junior Data Scientist position at Jobright.ai?
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Job Summary:
Ibotta is a leading performance marketing platform that is seeking a Data Scientist to join their Core Data & Analytics team. The role involves utilizing statistics, machine learning, and data visualizations to provide actionable insights and build robust datasets that drive business growth and support various initiatives.
Responsibilities:
• Contribute to creating best practices for the team
• Initiate and drive collaboration with stakeholders, architects, and data engineers to discover, define, cleanse, and refine the data needed for analysis and modeling
• Analyze large and novel datasets to extract actionable insights to inform model development and understand consumer behavior
• Provide customized views of large and complex datasets to support data analysis and business decision-making
• Inform experimental design to formulate solutions addressing major business challenges and innovation opportunities
• Build models using a variety of statistical and machine learning techniques, from selecting the best type of model for the problem to using techniques to measure and optimize model performance
• Harden data pipelines and models for production deployment and monitoring of performance over time
• Embrace and uphold Ibotta’s Core Values of Integrity, Boldness, Ownership, Teamwork, Transparency, & A good idea can come from anywhere
Qualifications:
Required:
• 2 years of progressive experience in a professional data science, machine learning, statistics, or data analysis role, or related experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, Economics or similar field required; Advanced degree preferred
• A passion for driving important decisions using data and data storytelling
• A love of learning and continuous development, including staying at the forefront of the latest advances in data science and machine learning.
• Demonstrated knowledge, skills, and abilities in developing and applying a variety of machine learning and statistical algorithms
• Demonstrated Python skills. Spark or PySpark experience is a plus
• Broad and general statistical and mathematical knowledge and skills
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Demonstrated knowledge, skills, and abilities in database manipulation, query languages, and graph data schemas
• Exposure to or interest in manipulating complex data to apply business rules for improved feature engineering within data lakes, distributed systems, and data streams
• Exposure to or interest in MLOps a plus
Preferred:
• Advanced degree preferred
• Broad-scale community contributions to the fields of data science and machine learning in the way of conference presentations, professional publications, and/or recognized internet presence are a plus
Company:
Ibotta is a web and mobile application. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Public Company.
