REMOTE - INTL - Data Scientist

This resource would be working for a startup based in the Bay Area, focusing on providing data science solutions to the entertainment industry. This company help studios understand ever changing audience preferences and produce even more exciting and relevant movies and TV Shows. Our solutions and services help studios optimize production costs. We make a difference in every aspect of filmed entertainment - ideation, production, marketing, distribution using data science.

They're seeking a talented data scientist, preferably proficient in both R and Python. As a data scientist, you will analyze data and propose and develop solutions that address various business needs of the entertainment industry. Your insights, apps, recommendations will be used by stakeholders in crucial decision making. You will develop and deploy data products and solutions that address the needs of the entertainment industry. The solutions that you build will be used for stakeholders to understand audience engagement, optimize production cost, drive content strategy, help greenlight movies, make TV Shows successful and much more.

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Required Skills & Experience

Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, test, and deploy ML models that drive applications and APIs.
- Work with stakeholders to understand the business requirements and develop a data science solution to address those requirements.
- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code, conduct code reviews.
- Containerize the models that you have developed.
- Deploy those models in the cloud.
- Use ML Ops pipeline to serve models.
- Use SQL to extract desired data from Snowflake, Redshift, etc
- You will ensure that your models and insights satisfy the business objectives rapid execution is paramount.

Requirements:
- 4-5+ years of experience working with Data Science
- Advanced coding from scratch in R (preferred) and/or Python and the ability to read others code and detect bugs/make adjustments.
- Previous experience building Shiny and/or Dash applications.
- Able to write SQL queries from scratch and knowledge on how to use SQL to extra data from Snowflake etc.
- Experience manually uploading applications into the cloud (AWS or GCP).
- B.S.in a Computer Science/Statistics/Data Science or any related quantitative field.
- Strong proficiency with ML-frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, JAX, Scikit learn, GBMs (lightgbm, xgboost, catboost etc).
- Clear and concise writer and verbal communication skills- with experience communicating daily with stakeholders.
- Self-motivated, growth-oriented, and driven to pursue solutions to challenging.

Nice to Have Skills & Experience
- Experience with Shiny Applications.

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.