Remote Data Scientist

Description:

• MediaLab is a media and technology company focused on acquiring and growing properties and global brands.
• The organization combines private equity, holding company, and operating entity functions.
• The company is expanding and has a prominent market position with its brands.
• The role of Data Scientist involves researching and developing models that contribute to revenue growth.
• Responsibilities include selecting, training, and tuning machine learning models for specific business use cases.
• The Data Scientist will interface with stakeholders to understand business cases and validate models during development.
• Key tasks include researching solutions to business problems, training and fine-tuning models, and producing clean, reproducible code.
• The Data Scientist will work closely with ML Ops and the Data Team to implement models into applications and drive improvements in KPIs.
• Potential projects include vectorizing website content, training supervised ML models on labeled images and video, developing dynamic bid floors for RTB auctions, and improving spam-detection models.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have 3-5 years of professional experience as a Data Scientist building statistical models and AI/ML solutions.
• A demonstrated ability to work through projects effectively and self-direct while involving stakeholders is required.
• Advanced Python skills are necessary, including professional experience with common data science libraries such as pandas and numpy/scipy.
• Candidates should have experience with the data science project lifecycle, including problem definition, data investigation and preparation, model selection, training, and validation.
• The ability to write clear documentation is essential.
• Experience in the ad tech industry or working with real-time bidding (RTB) is a plus.

Benefits:

• MediaLab values diversity and is committed to being an inclusive, equal opportunity workplace.
• Employees will have the opportunity to work with an exceptionally talented team of engineers, designers, product, and business builders.
• The company offers a remote work environment, allowing flexibility in work location.
• Employees can contribute to significant projects that drive revenue growth and improve company KPIs.