The Role:

Intelletec is partnering with a fast-growing startup seeking a founding Chief Data Scientist to help unlock liquidity for the multi-trillion-dollar, uncorrelated asset class of litigation finance. The company's data-driven marketplace leverages its proprietary AI-augmented predictive analytics to match institutional capital with high-stakes commercial litigation claims in primary and secondary markets, providing claim holders/plaintiffs with the most significant potential for success. Since its establishment in 2019, its predictive analytics solutions have diligently evaluated legal cases worth over $48 billion. The client base includes some of the largest institutional investors, law firms, and companies worldwide.

As a Founding Chief Scientist, you will play a critical role in leading the development of new models and software products in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of engineers, designers, and lawyers. You will be responsible for scaling up the existing data pipeline.

What they are looking for:

• Proven experience working with complex, unstructured datasets composed primarily of textual data

‍Minimum Qualifications:

• 3+ years of industry experience as a data scientist, data engineer, ML scientist, ML engineer or an equivalent role
• 1+ year of leading technical teams or equivalent project management experience
• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, computer science, mathematics, or another equivalent quantitative discipline
• Python (NumPy, Pandas, Sklearn, Matplotlib)
• Experience with cleaning and summarizing tabular data (e.g., extensive experience with tools such as Pandas)
• Experience with text processing (e.g., regular expressions) and web scraping
• Basic AWS services (EC2, S3, etc)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Natural language processing
• Information retrieval
• Working knowledge of databases (e.g., SQL)
• Hands-on experience with data pre-processing

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