[Hiring] Lead Data Scientist @Brightflag

Role Description

As an ambitious and talented Senior Data Scientist joining our growing team, you will have experience of building machine learning solutions to solve complex business problems, ideally within a SAAS product focused environment. You will be adept at working through the full development pipeline from exploratory analysis to production, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, where agility and resourcefulness are essential. You will have the opportunity to work in a culture that values autonomy and encourages novel and creative solutions to problems - not just the same old model development process.

You are a team player working within the data science team and in collaboration with the product and engineering teams to develop innovative analytical solutions. You’ll ship a product that delivers the best value for our customers in line with a clear company strategy with data science innovation as a core pillar of the product. You will work in classical machine learning tasks (classification, regression) as well as innovative Generative AI applications.

• This is an individual contributor role and does not involve people management.

Qualifications

• 5+ Years developing machine learning models and solutions, ideally in a software product focused environment
• Strong programming skills in Python
• Strong skills in NLP, foundational representations like TFIDF matrices and topic modelling
• Familiarity with Word2vec, Transformers, and text embeddings for data extraction, classification, etc.
• Some familiarity with generative AI text-based applications and frameworks
• Application of classification techniques to multiclass and multi-label classification
• Familiarity with base Python stack such as Numpy, SciPy, Sklearn
• Experience developing Neural Network models in Keras/Tensorflow/PyTorch
• Application of regression techniques to predict continuous outcomes
• Some familiarity with Time Series forecasting
• Clustering and segmentation analysis
• Comfortable working with ambiguity in a fast-paced product environment
• A passion for building product-focused solutions that solve customer problems
• A track record of shipping product by working collaboratively with product and software engineering teams
• Ability to work autonomously

Requirements

• Experience deploying machine learning systems to the cloud, particularly with AWS machine learning stack
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins/AWS Codebuild/Bitbucket pipelines/Github actions
• Experience working with Docker and containerized environments
• Some bash scripting experience and Linux shell knowledge
• Experience working in a shared code repository with version control using Git
• Some experience of dashboard tools such as PowerBi/Qlik/Tableau

Benefits

• A huge opportunity to make a real impact, to shape what we do and where we are going
• The exposure and challenge you need to learn, grow and progress your career in a high growth environment
• Complex technical and business problems to solve and the trust and autonomy you need to go and solve them
• A sound, helpful team, in a friendly, values-driven and inclusive environment
• Competitive salary
• 25 days of holidays
• Comprehensive health insurance, life insurance and long term illness/income protection
• Fully flexible work location and work patterns
• Diverse and inclusive workplace culture

Location & Eligibility

• This role offers a flexible work location across Ireland
• Whether that be in the office, remote from anywhere in Ireland, or a mix of office/remote work in Ireland
• We cannot offer work permit sponsorship/self sponsorship for this role