Data Scientist - Big Data - Education - IISc/ISI/IIT

Urgent Opening for an Education Company in Bangalore.

From Tier 1 Engineering colleges with background in Big Data & Data Mining.

Data Scientist

We are looking for a Data Scientist who will help us discover the information hidden in vast amounts of data, and help us make smarter decisions to deliver even better products. Your primary focus will be in applying data mining techniques, doing statistical analysis, and building high-quality machine learning systems integrated with our products. For example, developing a model to understand how a student learns, what is his / her knowledge state etc.

What you- 'll be doing-

- Data mining using state-of-the-art methods

- Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis

- Extending company's data to third-party sources of information when needed

- Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems

- Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner

- Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques

- Production models and integrate as features to specific products

- Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance

- Develop a strong mechanism to continuously improve data collection and storage process ensuring data consistency and quality

Skills/competencies required

- Must have an engineering degree from Tier -1 institutes preferably with coursework in operation research, statistics, machine learning or programming

- 2 to 3 years of experience in analytics domain

- Hands-on experience with any statistical analysis environments such as R, Python

- Proficient in Microsoft office

- Familiarity with significance testing, sampling, descriptive statistics, Bayesian models and multivariate statistics

- Comfortable with relational and non-relational databases and API development

Who is a good fit-

- You are passionate about education and want to see a world where all the children get the opportunity to learn to the best of their ability

- Curious about how learning happens and what can make learning better

- Have experience in statistics/analytics

- You want to work in an intellectually challenging environment with the freedom to pursue interesting problems

What we have to offer-

- Opportunity to work with leading machine learning experts and education leaders

- Flat organizational structure

- Meritocracy-driven, candid culture

- Very high visibility

- Location: Bangalore

Our Client is trying to reach out to children everywhere to help them learn with understanding, has created an online learning environment It is a technology-based adaptive learning solution that is developed through cutting-edge educational research and ensures the improved level of learning for students. This is achieved by diagnosing current learning levels, prescribing a personalized learning path and tracking learning progress. Currently used by more than 80k students and 175schools and receives 1 million student responses every day.