Python Job: Data Scientist

Data Scientist

About the Company

Mission. Zeki puts the best global talent at the centre of today's science to accelerate innovation. Scientists use numerous ways to improve their skills, publish their work, broaden their network, seek funding and commercial opportunities. Zeki is building an information service which collects diverse data sets then uses behavioural analytics and AI to discover insights into the performance and potential of global science talent. We are creating a new benchmark for evaluating science talent.

About the Role

Exciting opportunity for a talented Data Scientist with strong machine learning and development skills to take ownership for all needs data science. This will suit someone who is looking for an environment where they can experiment, derive applicable data science use cases, and implement innovative solutions to recognize patterns.

You will need a good understanding of building and deploying models within different tools, and should have an inquiring mind that seeks to answer business questions.

You will have good experience of the data science process, including requirements gathering, data pre-processing, modelling, testing, deployment, and operationalization/monitoring in production.

Good communication skills and a self-learner, able to quickly acquire new skills and can innovate. You will be working closely with data engineers, research analysts and data scientists to answer complex business questions from diverse and challenging datasets.

Responsibilities

· Conducting hypothesis and experiments

· Developing data science use cases per business need

· Developing new models, training, testing, and validating

· Setting up an ML environment

· Conducting data cleaning tasks, creating derived data, and supporting database enrichment

· Providing support on data integrity and consistency by ML based entity resolution

· Track and communicate issues to technology leadership team

· Document the delivered solutions at the technical and business level

· Storing, maintaining, and monitoring model versions

Skills

· Minimum of 3 years’ experience as a data scientist

· Strong python skills and working with a variety of machine learning libraries

· Good knowledge of NLP and transformers

· Knowledge of deep learning

· Multiclass classification and Recommendation engines

· Clustering and Similarity Models

· Good SQL skills and Data framing (pandas, Scikit learn)

· Understanding of code versioning and model maintenance

· Excellent communication skills in communicating ideas and creative concepts

· Experience in working in virtual teams and being in constant collaboration

· Well organised, delivering work to a brief and to a deadline, sometimes under pressure

· Ability to work unsupervised and take ownership for key services

Nice to Have

· Experience using AWS Sagemaker and MLOps

· SaaS Product Background

· Generative AI

· Understanding of talent or HR space

· Experience with entity resolution and behavioural analytics

· Experience with graph database for exploring relationships across multiple datasets

We offer a friendly, collaborative working environment with a high level of autonomy and time for exploring innovative technology ideas in a fast-paced start up model.

Our Values. At Zeki,we believe that a great culture is key to our personal well-being and professional success. As a founding team, we live and work through these values and behaviours. We will ask the same of you if you come and work with us.

Respect: we respect all talents and include all points of view

Integrity: we believe in accuracy in our work and seeing everything in the round

Novelty: we find frontiers to break through and challenge the orthodoxy

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £55,000.00-£70,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Flexitime
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

• Have you been in a data scientist role for more than 3 years?
• Do you have any experience with Topic Modelling
• Do you have commercial experience with NLP and NLU

Experience:

• Machine learning (preferred)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Remote