A company founded by Artificial Intelligence visionaries and Machine Learning experts in 2013 are looking for a Data Scientist to join their fast-growing team in New York City.

This role is a junior position and requires no commercial experience.However, applicants must have a completed PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, or another quantitative field in order to be considered.

About the company

Offices in New York (approx 30 people), London, Singapore, and Israel
Product so groundbreaking it has been referred to as "science fiction" on multiple occasions
Their product is a software that considers billions of possible hypotheses at scale. It's able to scan massive amounts of data and sifts it through a range of clarifiers – equations, definitions sentiments, locations – to build the best predictive model with a measurable business goal in mind. As the data changes the model adapts using adaptive machine learning algorithms

Responsibilities:

Solve various problems and make a true impact across unlimited domains and industries (Financial Risk, Health, E-commerce, Marketing, Oil & Gas Exploration etc.)
Translate complex data into meaningful insights
Partner with their customers’ Data Science teams, helping them optimize their use of the platform

Requirements:

PhD in Statistics, Computer Science or other quantitative field
Programming skills (Python, SQL, Scala, Java)
Excellent presentation and communication skills
Experience with large datasets and distributed computing (Hive/Hadoop, Spark)
Experience with statistical tools or packages (R / RapidMiner / Scikit)

Salary is very competitive - paying up to 120k + bonus + benefits + all that good stuff