Data Scientist
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Job Description
Job Description:
Do you love solving complex business problems using statistical modeling and machine learning Do you want to contribute to the transformation of a business at scale introducing automation and optimization across products and business systems Rakuten Rewards is looking for a data scientist.
The Data Science team supports a wide spectrum of business domains including user experience personalization (e.g. consumer recommendations) forecasting and optimization of advertising campaigns anomaly detection/alerting etc. The scope of our work is broad and still expanding. As a data scientist at Rakuten Rewards you will have the opportunity to develop and deploy solutions to challenging practical business problems. Your work will improve the experience of our members and impact the business bottom line.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Collaborate with manager and stakeholders to specify business problems with precision
- Support the translation of business problems into machine learning problems including ML problem formulation and evaluation metric specification.
- Perform exploratory data analyses to characterize utility of existing data and to identify needs for new data
- Develop data pipelines for feature computation model training inference and evaluation
- Design and execute offline experiments and simulations
- Lead model deployment business integration and online performance assessment
- Maintain technical documentation develop/present demos and presentations
- Support management in project planning and status reporting
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- Very strong SQL skills
- Experience with big data and machine learning frameworks. Python/sklearn/pytorch strongly preferred.
- Practical experience with multiple ML problem types (supervised/unsupervised classification/regression RL experience is a plus)
- Strong software development skills
- Strong problem solving communication and collaboration skills
- Firm understanding of statistics and A/B test fundamentals
- Experience with NLP techniques is a plus
- Deep learning/NN experience is a plus
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
- 3 years industry experience applying machine learning methods to solve realworld problems
- Bachelors degree in AI/ML computational mathematics computer science statistics physics or related field. Masters degree strongly preferred.
- Experience in adtech and/or consumer services is a plus
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Our worldwide practices describe specific behaviors that make Rakuten unique and united across the world. We expect Rakuten employees to model these 5 Shugi Principles of Success.
Always improve Always Advance Only be satisfied with complete success Kaizen
Passionately Professional Take an uncompromising approach to your work and be determined to be the best
Hypothesize Practice Validate Shikumika Use the Rakuten Cycle to succeed in unknown territory
Maximize Customer Satisfaction The greatest satisfaction for our teams is seeing their customers smile
Speed!! Speed!! Speed!! Always be conscious of time take charge set clear goals and engage your team
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Employment Type
Full-Time
