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Senior Data Scientist

Job Responsibilities

  • Use machine learning and advanced statistics to help build innovative solutions for real-life customer and business problems
  • Influence the AI roadmap for the largest home, auto business insurer in Canada
  • Explore and master new technologies to use in your own solutions
  • Grow alongside a diverse team of world-class experts in data science, software engineering, actuarial science, business and design
  • Transform data into meaningful conclusions and recommendations
  • Collaborate with other teams to promote a data-driven approach within the organization
  • Validate the scientific methodology and project outputs of the other team members
  • Mentor and coach interns and other engineers to help us grow, as a team

Job Requirements

  • A bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline such as mathematics, science, engineering, statistics, AI, computer science or a related field. MSc and/or PhD are an asset
  • 5+ years of relevant experience in predictive modelling, machine learning and advanced statistics solving business problems
  • Experience with our tech stack: scikit-learn, xgboost, pytorch, tensorflow, LightGBM, pandas, numpy
  • Intermediate-to-Expert-level understanding of the underlying theory and implementation details of machine learning techniques such as clustering, decision trees, neural networks, Linear and Non-Linear Programming, Deep Learning (ANN, RNN, CNN) and Reinforcement Learning
  • Programming experience in languages such as Python or R as well as knowledge of software engineering best practice
  • Unlimited curiosity and a passion to challenge the status quo
  • Ability to focus on vaguely defined issues requiring the application of a creative approach
  • Strong communication, time management and work organization skills