Sr. Data Scientist - National Government

Overview

Are you passionate about changing the world through machine learning and location intelligence? If yes, then its the right time to join our team because we are about to do so! With the IoT revolution, the consumerization of mapping and location data growing exponentially day after day, location is becoming extremely important to more and more people. We want to enable organizations and businesses to go beyond basic visualization and analytics of such massive data to the realm of being two or three steps ahead of the game by extracting advanced levels of intelligence from it, predicting important events, and automating significant proportions of their work through AI and machine learning.

We are looking for an entrepreneurial, collaborative person with strong hands-on experience and solid track record with statistical analysis, machine learning, predictive analytics, software engineering, and passion for location to help us on our mission to build world class predictive location analytics solutions for our customers in 160+ countries.

Responsibilities

• Consult closely with customers to understand their needs
• Develop and pitch data science solutions by mapping business problems to machine learning or other advanced analytics approaches
• Build high-quality analytics systems that solve our customers business problems using techniques from data mining, statistics, and machine learning
• Write clean, collaborative, and version-controlled code to process big data and streaming data from a variety of sources and types
• Perform feature engineering, model selection, and hyperparameter optimization to yield high predictive accuracy and deploy the model to production in a cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environment
• Implement best practices and patterns for geospatial machine learning and develop reusable technical components for demonstrations and rapid prototyping
• Keep up to date with the latest technology trends in machine and deep learning and incorporate them in project delivery

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with Python in data science and deep learning
• Experience in building and optimizing supervised and unsupervised machine learning models including deep learning and various other modern data science techniques
• A fundamental understanding of mathematical and machine learning concepts such as calculus, back propagation, ReLU, Bayes theorem, Random Forests, time series analysis, and more
• Experience with applied statistics concepts
• Experience developing software collaboratively in Python using version control
• Ability to perform data extraction, transformation, loading from multiple sources and sinks
• Ability to produce data visualizations using tools such as matplotlib
• Self-motivated, life-long learner
• Strong communication skills, including to non-technical audiences
• Bachelors degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, physics or a similar field

Recommended Qualifications

• Familiarity with one or more of the following: Git, Pytorch, Tensorflow, CUDA/GPU programming
• DevOps/MLOps experience using Docker/Kubernetes
• Experience handling massive batch/streaming data using big data tools, such as Apache Spark
• Experience interacting with AWS, Azure, or other cloud service
• Experience building reinforcement learning models
• Experience with spatial and GIS concepts, preferably using Esri software
• Masters degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, physics or a similar field

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The Company

At Esri, diversity is more than just a word on a map. When employees of different experiences, perspectives, backgrounds, and cultures come together, we are more innovative and ultimately a better place to work. We believe in having a diverse workforce that is unified under our mission of creating positive global change. We understand that diversity, equity, and inclusion is not a destination but an ongoing process. We are committed to the continuation of learning, growing, and changing our workplace so every employee can contribute to their lifes best work. Our commitment to these principles extends to the global communities we serve by creating positive change with GIS technology. For more information on Esris Racial Equity and Social Justice initiatives, please visit our website here.

If you dont meet all of the preferred qualifications for this position, we encourage you to still apply!

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