ASCENDING is hiring a
Data Scientist

Summary

The job is for a remote Data Scientist position that involves analyzing data to help make smarter business decisions. The primary focus is on applying data mining techniques, doing statistical analysis, and building prediction systems.

Requirements

• PhD in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics or other related fields
• Real world experience of solving business problems using machine learning, data mining, data analysis
• Data-oriented personality
• Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms
• Experience with common data science toolkits (such as R, Weka, NumPy, MatLab, etc.)
• Great communication skills
• Experience with data visualization tools
• Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc

Responsibilities

• Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
• Define approaches for data mining
• Extending company's data with third party sources of information when needed
• Doing ad-hoc analysis and R&D involving operating heterogeneous data sets
• Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance