Associate Data Scientist

**Introduction**:
Our goal at Pivotree is to help accelerate the future of frictionless commerce. We will help lead this change over the next decade because we believe a future where technology is embedded intimately into all aspects of our everyday lives can benefit everyone and will shape the interactions with the brands we love. We will help shape the future of frictionless commerce by working together with some of the best brands in the world and some of the best people in the industry to leverage converging technologies that will make it possible to accelerate frictionless commerce faster than ever.
Pivotree provides services focused on the design, implementation, management, and maintenance of complex ecommerce solutions for large enterprises. We provide the technical skills necessary to enable the effective use of technologies combined with the business context to leverage a solution to solve our clients' business challenges. We strive to fill the gaps in available technology with our own IP to reduce the barriers to adoption.
We enable inclusive, immersive and highly personalized experiences for our clients and their customers. We build our products with a view to productizing and scaling technology to lower the costs and reduce the risks of implementing and managing our integrated solutions. Each of our solutions starts with reliable and reputable e-commerce and MDM platforms, which run on enterprise grade infrastructure that are customized to meet a variety of client needs, situations, and budgets. Over the next 10 years we will add new categories and capabilities that will define frictionless commerce ecosystems.
This is a journey of technology acceleration combined with consumer readiness and adoption. We are looking for people capable of adapting relentlessly to the rapidly evolving world around us.
**Position Summary**:
The Junior Data Scientist will be a member of our Data Automation, Machine Learning, and AI Practice, which reports to Pivotree’s Director of Research and Development. The Junior Data Scientist will contribute to:

- Developing Pivotree’s Machine Learning platform, DIVE
- Providing custom data science solutions to Pivotree’s customers
- Collaborating with other parts of Pivotree’s organization to improve existing service offerings
- Identifying, researching, building new use cases and opportunities for ML/AI in our target markets

**Roles & Responsibilities**:

- Select with reasoning, implement, test, and tune statistical, predictive and machine learning models.
- Work with customers to identify data related pain points and provide suggestions to solve those issues using existing developed ML & AI toolsets, or potential new solutions.
- Establish data quality and consistency throughout data preparation, including data acquisition, integration, normalization, sanitization, and transformation.
- Work with engineers to implement machine learning models and services, as well as AI based solutions, within tools and platforms
- Interact directly with business partners and customers in a professional manner. Obtain customer requirements and business understanding, communicate findings and deliverables
- Contribute to a data-centric corporate culture, transmit data science acumen throughout the organization

**KEY SKILLS & COMPETENCIES**:Required**:

- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or similar STEM field.
- 2+ years professional experience with modeling and analysis in fields such as machine learning, statistical analysis, operations research, or data mining.
- 2+ year of experience with Python libraries used in data science: sklearn, pandas, numpy, matplotlib
- 1+ year of experience with version control system - specifically Git and/or GitHub.
- 1+ year of experience in analytics and data visualization
- 1+ year of experience with data repositories, including SQL and no-SQL databases
- Experience creating and fine tuning AI prompts using a variety of large language models
- Experience with several of the following - clustering, regression analysis, SVM, neural networks, collaborative filtering, KNN, association rules, decision trees, NLP.
- Basic familiarity with core AWS services - specifically S3, RDS, and SageMaker.
- Capable of taking responsibility for an initiative and working with mínimal direction; self-starter even when assignments are vague or undefined.

**Preferred**:

- Experience with Agile development practices.
- Experience in eCommerce, Supply Chain, Retail.

Pivotree is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace.
Pivotree is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace.