Data Scientist

Intersog® is a Chicago-based provider of ROI-driven custom web and mobile development specializing in the delivery of full-service, end-to-end solutions, and project resources to Fortune 500 companies, SMEs, and startups. We help our clients attack their ambitious business goals, solve skills shortage issues and become innovative by building Dedicated Software Development Teams in Ukraine and/or providing on-demand IT project resources to complete required skills on their in-house teams.
Our primary goal in partnering with our clients is to exceed their expectations and foster an ongoing relationship that envelopes innovation, industry leadership, and business strategy while delivering products that bring exceptional user experience, brand elevation, and market dominance.
We’re looking for a* Data Scientist *to join a DS team of our customer from Israel and translate real-world problems into quantitative language, find or create algorithms to solve those problems, and implement them in code.
Requirements:

• MS or higher in the following areas: Statistics and Mathematics;

• At least 3-5 years of professional industry experience, in addition to your academic experience;
• Outstanding quantitative analytical ability;
• In-depth knowledge of Statistics/Probability/Machine Learning;
• General Statistical concepts such as hypothesis testing, estimation, inference;
• Supervised and unsupervised statistical techniques such as regression (linear / logistic), time series analysis, clustering;
• Machine Learning foundations such as bias/variance trade-off, regularization, dimension reduction;
• Real-world experience with popular machine learning algorithms such as Random Forest, Boosting, SVMs;
• Experience with unstructured text data using NLP methods such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), Sentiment Models, Word Embeddings, Text Similarity, Entity extraction is a strong plus;
• Strong programming experience in Python and one of the following: Scala/Java, R;
• Understanding of algorithm complexity and performance implications;
• Knowledge of data structures and algorithms;
• Good knowledge of Graph technology, Knowledge Graphs, Graph Databases and Ontologies;
• Experience with SQL;

• Upper-Intermediate level of English.

We offer:

• Competitive compensation based on your skills, experience, and customer satisfaction;
• Opportunity to work on challenging and exciting international projects;
• Flexible working hours and the possibility to work remotely when needed;
• Regular performance evaluation twice a year;
• Long-term contract with 20-25 paid time off working days (for vacation, sick, and personal leave);
• Corporate English courses from A1 to C1 level and monthly English-speaking clubs;
• Compensation of professional conference attendance according to the corporate policy;
• Compensation of medical insurance/gym according to the corporate policy;
• Casual, friendly, and family work environment, flat organizational structure;
• Regular knowledge sharing meetups and various corporate events (such as the company’s Birthday celebration and summer family party);
• Newborn and wedding bonuses;
• Gameroom with a lounge zone, PlayStation, and sports equipment;
• Travel and visa assistance for employees;
• Coffee, cookies, nuts, and dried fruits for a productive day;
• Friday brunches with fresh bakery;
• Yoga lessons;
• Secure bike storage (Odessa).

Job Type: Full-time