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Junior Data Scientist urgently needed: APPLY HERE

Junior Data Scientist urgently needed: APPLY HERE

Cape Town, Western Cape 8001

Job Description

Our team is growing and we are seeking a keen (Graduate) Junior Data Scientist to assist in the development of new products and monitoring of existing products. The role would require you to get involved with all components of the product development and deployment: problem definition, data cleaning, hypothesis generation, and testing, model training and testing, and finally monitoring of the predicted outcomes.

Knowing why the data is collected (i.e. what is important when building a statistical model and how that is reflected in the data) is a key component of the role. In this regard, you will frequently be required to communicate effectively with the client to understand their data and database management systems such that the set of data that they provide us is sound.

As such, it will be important to quickly understand the client’s specific problem and identify practical adaptations to the models considering the client’s context and communicating results across to the client in an effective manner.

Qualifications:

Msc/ BBusSci(Hon)/ BSc(Hon) in a related field: Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Actuarial Science, Astrophysics
Ability to handle, interpret and analyze data efficiently and to recognize and allocate the appropriate data science tools to a given problem
Fluency in Python (Knowledge of machine learning libraries is critical, e.g.: sklearn)
A full understanding of how ANN’s, CNN’s, RNN’s, autoencoders, and variational autoencoders work
A solid understanding of fundamental data science concepts (familiarity with linear and logistic regression, SVM’s, dimensionality reduction (principal component analysis/T-SNE/U-MAP), decision trees (and how they work), gradient boosting, ensemble models, clustering algorithms, etc
Familiarity with implementing the above architectures with deep learning frameworks like Keras and TensorFlow (GitHub should have everything you need). People tend to be much more impressed by those who are proficient in TF, but it’s much easier to prototype/learn with Keras – so I think both are quite important. Pytorch is gaining traction as well, but I don’t know of any local companies that actually use it in production
Database management software e.g.: SQL

Additional Information

We are an ambitious team passionate about AI and machine learning and have demonstrated our capability time and time again, frequently coming out ahead of multinational companies competing on the same bid for international work. We’re located in Green Point, Cape Town, in an awesome office complete with a balcony, an arcade machine and all the free coffee you could want! Apply Now

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