Principal Data Scientist
Full time
- Pune
Who We Are?
Ranked as one of the fastest growing technology companies on the Deloitte Fast 50 India 2014 survey, at Talentica our vision is to be the # 1 company doing core product development work for start-ups ! So far we’ve built over 130+ innovative products and have worked with some of the hottest start-ups across the globe. We hire technology addicts and encourage them “to create” by understanding the product vision, business context and practical usage.
Looking for passionate & motivated Principal Data Scientist to join us. You will be working on cutting-edge technologies to build innovative tech products.
What we do?
- Build products - Be it building a payment gateway from scratch or Setting up world’s # 1 ad Serving platform or Innovating premium video-mailing software for corporates, we transform our customer’s ideas into successful products.
- Learn Continuously - Innovation is our DNA. We explore and add value to our customer’s business by being on top of technology.
Our Culture
- Colleagues, who inspire, challenge and match up – We’ve flocked some of the finest engineering potential in the country, we hire ONLY from a select few premium engineering institutes
- Open work culture - Openness and Transparency is the way we are, we express, hear and enable your ease and growth
Your Role
- Build Talentica as a thought leader in ML / AI technologies
- Add value to our customers through technical innovation and building technical competence across Talentica in ML / AI.
Top Accountabilities
- Solving customer problems through innovation and technical expertise
- Identify new tools and technology areas that would benefit our customers and ensure that some of them get adapted by the customers
- Showcase our AI / ML expertise by presenting in conferences and by contributing to open source projects
- Building a team of Data Scientists / ML experts.
- Building a culture of innovation and technology expertise
Authorities
- Own the budget for the team
- Own all staffing decisions for the team
- Team participation in conferences - as per the allocated budget
Desired Skills and Experience
- Strong expertise and / or demonstrated ability to learn, architect and implement solutions to AI / ML problems
- Being hands on with an ability to build quick prototypes to demonstrate new technology / algorithm benefits to our customers and internal stakeholders.
- Positive “Can do” attitude a must. Results oriented with discipline to deliver on commitments.
- Leadership to motivate the team and to set a high bar for technical excellence.
- Strong orientation towards customer satisfaction and high quality of deliverables
- Experience of speaking at conferences
Technical background
- Industry experience in solving problems in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language processing, Statistical modelling and Visualization techniques
- Should have published papers in or been a speaker at A / B level conferences
- Experience in Python, R etc.
- PhD in Computer science, Mathematics or related disciplines from a premium institute