Sheru - Data Scientist

Company Introduction :

Sheru is monomaniacally focused on accelerating the electric revolution in India. We've started by targeting the largest installed base of Electric Vehicles - E-Rickshaws (92% of EVs in India), upgrading them with swappable Li-ion battery packs, helping drivers DOUBLE their daily income with the AWS Lambda for batteries. So far, we've enabled 2.5M kilometers with our technology and removed 300 Metric Tons of carbon emissions in the process. We're still on day one, and looking for the right folks to partner with to build, secure, and scale our platform, as well as the ecosystem of services that India currently lacks.

Job Description :

Location - New Delhi

Experience - 2-5 years

Responsibilities :

- People in Data Scientist role at Sheru are passionate for Internet technology and help further strategic decisions. The candidate in the position will ensure success by using analytics to drive the growth, and success of the product

- Apply your expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand how our users interact with our core/business products

- Partner with Product and Engineering teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities

- Implement algorithms to power user-facing data-driven features

- Inform, influence, support, and execute our product decisions and product launches

- Help teams design meaningful metrics and visualizations to track the health of our features and platforms

- Build a world-class team and shape the future of data engineering at Sheru

- Identify valuable data sources and automate collection processes

- Undertake preprocessing of structured and unstructured data

- Analyze large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns

- Build predictive models and machine-learning algorithms

- Combine models through ensemble modeling

- Present information using data visualization techniques

- Propose solutions and strategies to business challenges

- Collaborate with engineering and product development teams

Skills and Qualifications :

- Degree in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics or other relevant technical field; graduate degree in Data Science or other quantitative field or an advanced degree will be preferred

- Proven experience as a Data Scientist or Data Analyst doing quantitative analysis

- Experience in data mining

- Understanding of machine-learning and operations research

- Knowledge of SQL and Python/ R/ Perl/ PHP; familiarity with Scala, Java or C++ is an asset

- Experience using business intelligence tools (e.g. Tableau) and data frameworks (e.g. Hadoop)

- Working experience in a fast-paced start-up environment will be an added advantage

- Analytical mind and business acumen

- Strong math skills (e.g. statistics, algebra)

- Problem-solving aptitude

- Excellent communication and presentation skills

- Ability to initiate and drive projects to completion with minimal guidance

- The ability to communicate the results of analyses in a clear and effective manner